![]() ![]() Honorable mentions: Bokida (Institut de Création et d'Animation Numériques) Flying Fish (The Academy of Interactive Entertainment) Ladylike (NYU and NYU Poly) Rabbit Rush (RMIT) and UN EP (Kansas City Art Institute). Reed) DEVICE 6 (Simogo) Elegy for a Dead World (Dejobaan Games with Popcannibal) Shelter (Might & Delight) and SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT team). & Dejobaan Games, LLC.) Quadrilateral Cowboy (Blendo Games) and Redshirt (The Tiniest Shark). Honorable mentions: Detective Grimoire (SFB Games) Gorogoa (Jason Roberts) Monster Loves You! (Radial Games Corp. Honorable mentions: Don't Starve (Klei Entertainment) Jazzpunk (Necrophone Games) Potatoman Seeks the Troof (Pixeljam) Sokobond (Alan Hazelden, Harry Lee, and Ryan Roth) and The Banner Saga (Stoic). Honorable mentions: DEVICE 6 (Simogo) Gorogoa (Jason Roberts) Perfect Stride (Arcane Kids) The Banner Saga (Stoic) and Threes (Asher Vollmer, Greg Wohlwend, and Jimmy Hinson). Honorable mentions: Don't Starve (Klei Entertainment) Galak-Z (17-BIT) Shelter(Might & Delight) The Swapper (Facepalm Games) and The Yawhg (Damian Sommer and Emily Carroll). Honorable mentions: 868-HACK (Michael Brough) Crypt of the NecroDancer (Brace Yourself Games) Kerbal Space Program (Squad) The Yawhg (Damian Sommer and Emily Carroll) and TowerFall Ascension (Matt Thorson). Dominique Pamplemousse in "It's All Over Once the Fat Lady Sings!".For this reason, when boss fights come around, players will be even more impressed by how the defining traits of this game wrap around in well-thought, engaging, and challenging levels.2014 Independent Games Festival Finalists: ![]() Players will be impressed with how simple, yet effective the game design of this game is throughout the game. The visuals, plus the laidback ambiance created make this a very relaxing and fun game to play. Whether you like electronic music, jazz, pop, lo-fi, or rock, you will see your personal taste reflected in the game, and the good news is that the songs are well-crafted and would work alone outside of the game as well. Original soundtrack and a great variety of genres ensure that there is something for all types of music lovers in this game. Screen shakes, flashing lights, beat changes, different animations, flying notifications, and other distractions are what will keep you going back and playing this game for a while. If you were tasked with pressing the space bar as the heartbeats cross an imaginary point, this game wouldn’t be interesting, except that in your playthrough an insane variety of distractions and variables are thrown your way. Nonetheless, different stages reflect that sometimes saving lives can be very simple and straightforward, but sometimes things get hectic and unpredictable, and this is the defining trait of the game: unpredictableness. The storyline is surprisingly good and fully developed for a rhythm game, which already makes the game very unique. Attaching the rhythm side of gaming with the core value of medicine that is saving lives, developers achieve a sense of importance to what’s happening on screen. Rhythm Doctor relies on its simple commands, and storyline to reel players in. It sounds fairly simple, yet it is so extremely refreshing, and such a unique take that it is hard no to fall in love with the title. The way you win is by pressing the space bar whenever a heartbeat reaches the yellow portion, and the 7th beat, of the ECG vital line (measurement of heartbeats). if those don’t mean much to you, don’t worry - it’s designed to make you learn rhythm theory without even realising it. But every level has a twist on that concept: polyrhythms, offbeats, hemiolas, irregular time signatures. The core mechanic is simple: slam your spacebar on the 7th beat to save patients in a hospital. The three are a remote team, as Azman and Lee are. Instead of the traditional notes, arrows, and all types of crazy things the rhythm genre is used to throwing at players, the Rhythm Doctor game uses heartbeats as their basis. Rhythm Doctor is a one-button rhythm game that aims to invisibly teach complex music and rhythm theory. Giacomo Preciado joined last year to help with the code after he and Azman connected at the Game Developers Conference industry event in 2014. Rhythm Doctor is a game where players are tasked with saving patients through rhythm. But, not Rhythm Doctor, this indie title released in February 2021, by 7th Beat Games, is an absolute breath of fresh air in the genre. It came as no surprise that their popularity wavered as rhythm games were repetitive, had expensive hardware, and for freshness, players were required to purchase content. For years rhythm games have maintained a very particular niche of fans, and in recent memory, not many games of the genre have found success outside arcades. ![]()
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