An homage to the classic Bonnie Tyler song Total Eclipse of the Heart, and its goofy, gonzo, drama-rama music video.
Now very slightly interactive: press x to...turn aroooooooound.
Other than that, just the music looping and a few thematic animations I hacked together. The arrangement is a rough -- there's a bunch of expression tweaking especially in the first half I haven't bothered with, and it has room for another channel worth of instrumentation on most patterns -- but I've already spent more time on it today than I had meant to, so I'm gonna stop here and share.
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Honestly, add the ability to turn around and it will be a finished cart!
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Y'all are so right about the turning around thing; I've updated to include it. No QTE prompts, just free form turning-around, which feels more in line with the dreamy free-spiritedness of Bonnie's video.
If I have it in me to do an actual walking animation for her, it might get more interactive still, but 2*4 sprites eat up a whole lot of sprite sheet quick so we'll see.
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Now, I love it even more than before!
I don't really need walking, but if you want to cheat, you can always enlarge the sprite to not show the legs (make it kinda 3/4 shot) . Then just move it up and down a little when "walking."
You can also use that with some procedural generation (and maybe few more random sprites) to make a dreamlike environment in which to walk and turn around.
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Yeah, Level27Geek, I'd say that, whatever the particulars of implementation end up being, that's where I'd like to go with it if I put more work into it. Just a dreamy, randomly-generated wander through the odd maze of the music video's school. Take it from static looping tableaux to something more along the lines of a Flying Toasters screensaver, ballad style.
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How about adding a score bar? The more in sync you turn around, the more you get points.
Seriously, this is a great cart :)
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Love it! I want more... 80's music video demake jam?!
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