Your meat-brained species excels at pattern recognition, albeit through instinct rather than understanding. This experiment aims to determine if human intuition can optimize our multi-dimensional quintessence-fused energy cells effectively.
Do not concern yourself with the intricacies of our technology; your fleshy brain could not begin to comprehend. Focus on instinctively finding the most harmonious parameter configurations.
Synaptic Harmonics is a game designed and developed for the GameDev.js 2024 game jam. Moreover, this is an entry for the js13k challenge of this jam, because this whole game is under 13Kb zipped.
In a future not far away, non-human entities, far supassing our technological capabilities, have deemed our feeble meat-based brains as a potentially valuable resource. Seems like our species has evolved to identify patterns and to recognize symetry and harmony. These characteristics are actually projections of multi-dimensional effects on our 3D world and by manipulating them, we can aparently help them optimize their energy production needs.
The game takes you through a series of visual puzzles where you need to identify the most harmonious configuration of the provided controls. Reaching the best configuration will optimize the energy output and light up the 5 lamps.
If you want to build this game, simply run:
yarn
yarn build
yarn serve
Or if you want to run the dev build
yarn dev
- roblouie for creating the js13k-typescript-starter
- xem for creating w.js
Bytebeat music composed with inspiration from several online examples, namely from
- Bytebeat Composer
- Bytebeat Guide by Ravary
- The absolute beginner’s guide to coding Bytebeats by The Tuesday Night Machines
- Lots of bytebeat snippets and examples on reddit