ALERT: THIS GAME CONTAINS FLASHING LIGHTS (but not excessively), BEWARE IF YOU'RE SENSITIVE TO IT.

ALERT: THE GAME SOMETIMES CRASHES AND NOTES STOP FALLING, PLEASE JUST RESTART THE PAGE OR DOWNLOAD THE EXECUTABLE (SORRY!). It's only available for Windows and the jam closed just when I wanted to upload the Linux and Mac versions. Just let us know if you need to try those builds.

Note: If the game doesn't detect the notes correctly when you start fullscreen mode, click on the screen, please. The fullscreen mode is implemented by Itch and we don't have control over that.

El Poblet

The game

El Poblet ( The village in catalan) is a rhythm game inspired by Guitar Hero, where you have to tap the arrow keys in sync with the music, as the notes fall from the sky.

The Context

The game is developed for the Pirate Software Game Jam 14. The theme of the jam is It’s Spreading, and this game is about the spread of gentrification (and to some extent, of capitalism) and how the elderly fight against it.

The gameplay

The fight of the elderly against the spreading of gentrification takes place in the streets! A gang of seniors is trying to sabotage the construction area of the new neighborhood.

The player will help them by pressing the arrow keys in sync with the music. The better the player does, the more the Yayometer© will fill, giving power to our old people to boycott the construction.

But if the player is out of tune, the Yayometer© will empty slowly, and if it fully empties, the game will be over!

The technicalities

The game is developed with Godot 4.2.

All pixel art assets were created with Aseprite.

The game is intended to be played in the browser. The plan is to port it to any desktop platform too.

The team

Figure 1. From left to right: Jacob, Eliimperio, and Devrique

Devrique

Sleepy software developer, vitamin D consumer, ferment lover and kefir daddy (drinking kefir while writing this text).

Eliimperio

Illustration artist, 3D and voxel addict. Sometimes I make art for videogames. I hate mondays.

Jacob

A two meters tall ball of meat interested in music, videogames (kind of obvious?), and almost any kind of artistic expression.

EXTRA CREDITS:

• Karmatic Arcade font by Vic Fieger.
• Boo City font by Tyler Finck.
• OMW to Kick the Big Bad song by Fupicat.