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The Magic Flute

Or, Bee Proud of Me, Dad!

After a single semester of pre-med, you decide to major in Music instead. When you break the news to your father, he’s none too pleased. Fortunately, you can use your whistle to summon things to impress him. If you put on a good enough recital, he might just agree to pay for the rest of your education. Your dad has always been a difficult man to impress, but you're in luck. Your whistle has been touched by magic.

All it will take is some willpower to overcome the stage fright…


This idler/clicker game was developed in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 55 (Theme: Summoning). All graphics, music, SFX, and dad jokes were created during this game jam.

A new version with improved UI and other enhancements is available here: https://daring-owl-studios.itch.io/the-magic-flute-bee-latest

The full-screen experience is recommended.

Please enjoy, and leave a comment! We'd love to hear from you!

Bugfixes

v 1.4

  • Fixed Continue button in Tutorial not working

v 1.3

  • Fixed Title/Credit buttons in the Ending not working

v 1.2

  • Disabled testing mode
  • Corrected typo in max pride progression
  • Decreased Celestial upgrade cost
  • Fixed tutorial typo
Updated 7 days ago
Published 13 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorDaring Owl Studios
Tags2D, bees, cello, Clicker, Idle, idler, ludum-dare-55, musical
LinksLudum Dare

Comments

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very nice clicker game! Hotkeys would be nice and finding new summons is kinda fidley, the quickfix of being able to buy new recipes is nice. Another possibilty would be to ignore the order of notes (ie. A-A-B == A-B-A == B-A-A), although that would maybe take away from the theme.

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I click "Continue" and nothing happens?

I have the same issue.

The build has been fixed! We hope you give it another try!

You are correct, as my 40 minutes of listening to the music will attest. Great game!

The build has been fixed! We hope you give it another try!

This game idea is SUPER cool!!!!!

I really enjoyed this game and it's art style and music, left it on background to play some tunes while writing feedback.

If you are considering to further develop this, here are some ideas I personally think would benefit players (atleast me :D):

- price on personal growth boxes shown always, or color to indicate what you can afford or what is maxed 

- option to play notes from keyboard

- mouse wheel zooms on playing field, even though there is scroll bar on right side of the screen

- one weird text box in tutorial, Antti will tell you what it is

This idea is brilliant. Nice work and keep on coding!

Thank you so much! These items were already the first items on our priority list for post-jam! Except for the typo. I didn't know about the typo. Good catch!

can't buy growth

Thanks! We've uploaded a new build that should've fixed this issue. Let us know what else you find!