Dissonance is a rhythm-based RPG where you survive on a grid arena by reading attack patterns that move in sync with the music. This game is heavily inspired by Crypt of the NecroDancer and Asterika.

In the year of 3067, the world still moves like it should, but it no longer pulses. Music exists, but its soul has long been dead. One day, a high school girl named Suis stumbles upon an old recording in her school library that makes her discover music.

When she begins creating music of her own, something awakens from the silence: The Dissonant, entities born from melodies that died before anyone could hear them. Suis need to face them one by one, not with weapons, but with rhythm.

Controls

• WASD - For moving in the shard's arena
• Esc - Pause
• Space - Continuing in VN Mode

Dissonant Shards

There are 3 shards you need to find for The Dissonant's body.

1. Lumen - Holding the genre of 80's City Pop
2. Aria - Holding the genre of Classical Music
3. Tetra - Holding the genre of EDM

Shard's Attacks

There will be 3 type of shard's attack/track, which is:

Pulse		Closes multiple tiles at once. A warning appears 1–3 beats before it activates. You need to avoid them before it hits.
Lock		Locks off an area of the arena for several beats. Don't get cornered.
Chord		A moving trap that advances one tile per beat in a fixed direction. Watch the arrow!

Character

Inspired from the Yorushika band from Japan, here's our protagonist!

Suis		Gadis kelas 3 SMA yang menemukan rekaman tua yang mengubah hidupnya, lalu memutuskan menjadi musisi di dunia yang sudah melupakan musik yang asli.
Buna		Pustakawan satu-satunya yang masih merawat arsip lama di sekolah Suis di masa tuanya. Diam-diam, ia tahu lebih banyak tentang Dissonant daripada yang ia akui.

Diversifier

This game was made for Individual Game Jam of Game Development Course from CSUI. So, here is the diversifier that makes my game unique.

1. Bored Ape [D45] = Mengoleksi sesuatu adalah tujuan utama dari game
2. VOY@GER [D58] = Skala dari game terus meningkat seiring permainan
3. Pon Pon Pata Pon [D64] = Alur game dipengaruhi oleh musik

Asset Credits

For music, I use Suno AI for generating the Main Title music, VN BGM music, and the Lumen's identity song. The other song was taken and mixed by myself from:

• Baumkuchen End Credits / Amala ft.Miku vs Teto vs Neru for Aria's identity song. I use this because it has a strong inspiration on classical music (Ode to Joy and Canon in D)
• Tetoris / Hiiragi Magnetite feat. Kasane Teto for Tetra's identity song. I use this because.. uh.. I like it?

For background image, I use Google's Nano Banana 2 for generating a correlated background images. For video in title menu, I use Seedance 2.

For other assets:

1. ZT Nature Font from online (free use)
2. Snoblin's Prototype Character Template for the base of Suis and Buna's artwork
3. Dialogue Manager by nathanoad for the VN mechanism

Other than these, I made it by myself.

Github Repo: https://github.com/hyvos07/dissonance