Music Match Devlog

The game is pretty simple, it is a match memory game, but instead of having different looking faces on cards that the player must match, the player must listen to the audio snippets instead and match the records based on the song that plays, no visual input is given to aid in the matching, all the records look the same. The matching is based ONLY on audio.

Originally I was going to have them be cards, not like playing cards but just card shaped icons with something boring on it like a music note, but I instead decided to use records as the graphic because records are cool and represent the idea of music pretty well.

I originally was gonna have the records disappear completely once the player got the correct match, but instead i opted for them to turn red and get faded out by 50% so when the player reaches the end of the game they see all the correct matches they had versus just an empty screen. Both are more visually appealing and show the player their progress better than a lack of graphics.

Even though the game is based on sounds I needed for there to be some visual feedback for the player, so I made it so the records turn red when the player hovers/selects the record, and it stays red while it plays. That way the player knows which record is playing, and the hover colour just makes it look more visually interesting, and interactive.

One thing, that is purely cosmetic, that I really really wanted but failed to accomplish was to get the records to spin when they are playing, I originally wanted this to show which record was currently playing as there would need to be some kind of visual feedback to keep track of what record was selected (in addition to changing to red), but I could not get this to work, and I didn’t feed it was THAT vital to the gameplay so I didn’t want to spend too much time problem solving that. But I do think it would have been super satisfying to see.

I also needed to add a nice splash screen, just to make the game feel more complete. I continued to use the record icon throughout the main menu splash as well as the screen the player gets when they beat the game and find all the matches.