5 For the Summer 2023 edition of the 2-week-long [My First Game Jam][My
6 First Game Jam]{title="My First Game Jam Summer 2023"}, I made a
7 game about an electronic musician using their synthesized music to
9 It's kind of a platformer where you try to get past rock-music themed
10 enemies (power chords, eletric basslines, guitar solos, etc.) by moving
11 along and shifting between various wave-forms.
12 You can play [Kill Rock 'n' Roll][krnr]{title="Kill Rock 'n' Roll"}
13 on itch. [][@:Rinna]{.sig}
15 Was the inversion of _No Straight Roads_{as="cite"} deliberate?
18 no i don't play video games (lie; but i had not heard of that game
19 before). [][@:Rinna]{.sig}
21 it is LITERALLY your premise backwards
24 booooorrrrriiiiiinnnnggg (jk).
25 i hope they have better music than me and got people to play actual
26 guitars for the rock music instead of using random built-in presets in
28 btw the current build has a tutorial level with actual instructions.
29 you should totally give it a try :3c
30 it works in browser even. [][@:Rinna]{.sig}
32 Update (2023 august 5): now it has background music and the rock music
33 enemies are recordings of people playing actual guitars and basses
34 (thanks to [][Freesound]{title="Freesound"}).
35 Also I've released version 1.0 and it's somewhat prettier.
38 i managed to crash the game by dying.
39 i find it rather unnerving to keep with with the mechanics (this is
46 https://itch.io/jam/my-first-game-jam-summer-2023
48 https://srncq.itch.io/kill-rock-and-roll
52 [Poltergeist][Poltergeist] is a chill Breakout variant where you can go
53 into ghost mode to pass through bricks to get to a better position.
54 It also lets you make your own levels if you want.
58 https://srncq.itch.io/poltergeist