DOWNBEAT
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Action, Rhythm. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
DOWNBEAT is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
DOWNBEAT is a short rhythm action game for Windows, with a free demo you can play in your browser on this page: the first area, THE GREENWOOD, and its boss. You move freely in real time. Every monster plays one part of the song, and it only moves on that part's notes: the kick drum lunges, the hi-hat hops, the melody fires, the bass turns and slams.
Strike, roll and guard whenever you like; on the beat you hit harder, roll further and parry instead of block. The paid download is the whole game: three areas, three songs, three bands, twelve rooms, three bosses and the ending. Hand-written HTML5, no engine, made by Core Systems Asset Factory using AI tools.
The song is the enemy's script Each monster stands on a disc in its part's colour: KICK red, HI-HAT yellow, LEAD green, BASS blue. Before it acts, a ring in that colour closes on it and finishes on the note, so the music tells you what is coming and the screen confirms it. A red line shows where a lunge will go, a green line where a bolt will fly, a blue cone where a slam lands.
Bass monsters carry a shield: hit them from behind, between their notes. On the beat, everything is better Movement is never locked to the beat.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.