Bassline Sinker
TheFitzyGames · 2019 · Action, Casual, Indie, Shooter, Music
PC
Positive100% · 12 📉 Recent reviews down 82%
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About Bassline Sinker
Bassline Sinker is a Shooter / Bullet hell that responds to your music.
This arcade shooter takes in any .mp3 / .wav file, the game then changes and reacts in real time to the audio. Your weapons, enemies and the environment all react differently to the music making every song flow differently in the game.
The game is set in an underwater seascape, with the player taking control of “Ruby” the manta ray. However, many other sea creatures also use the power of the music to fight against Ruby. Eels that surround her, angler fish that lure her in and Squids which shoot Ink bombs at her.
Bassline Sinker was made by a single Developer. Programming, Art, Design, Publishing were all done by Sean Fitzgerald. Fonts, SFX and preinstalled music were sourced from the public domain.
To add music to the game, you must navigate to the MyMusic folder and copy any music files to "Bassline_Sinker_Music".
This arcade shooter takes in any .mp3 / .wav file, the game then changes and reacts in real time to the audio. Your weapons, enemies and the environment all react differently to the music making every song flow differently in the game.
The game is set in an underwater seascape, with the player taking control of “Ruby” the manta ray. However, many other sea creatures also use the power of the music to fight against Ruby. Eels that surround her, angler fish that lure her in and Squids which shoot Ink bombs at her.
Bassline Sinker was made by a single Developer. Programming, Art, Design, Publishing were all done by Sean Fitzgerald. Fonts, SFX and preinstalled music were sourced from the public domain.
Key Features
- Everything reacts to the music playing.
- Support for both .mp3 and .wav files.
- Unlockable weapons.
- 50 Unlockable skins.
- Many enemy types.
- Several Boss enemies.
- Steam Achievements.
Adding Music
To add music to the game, you must navigate to the MyMusic folder and copy any music files to "Bassline_Sinker_Music".
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Bassline Sinker is praised for its creative concept of pairing bullet-hell shooter mechanics with music responsiveness, strong replayability through custom music imports, and addictive gameplay with procedural enemy generation and unique boss fights. However, players criticize the execution, noting that the constant automatic shooting tied to rhythm creates tedious positioning rather than engaging gameplay, the graphics are simplistic, and the game lacks basic technical polish that PC gamers expect as standard.
Developer/Publisher: TheFitzyGames Released: March 6, 2019 THE BASICS OF THE GAME Bassline Sinker is a Shooter / Bullet Hell game that responds to your choice of music. You're a Stingray (I believe) and you do battle with various under sea creatures out to do you harm. It's a rhythm game, but you need not worry if you're not good at them. Choose the right music track, weapons and armor and that's it. If you're good at and enjoy good shooters, you'll have no problem with the play mechanics of this game. The response of your weapons to the music is quite good. No complaints. CONTROLS Keyboard. W, S, A, D, or use the arrow keys. I use the arrow keys. MUSIC 13 tracks are included, however you can add your own .mp3 or .wav music files. It's a breeze to add your own tracks. For copyright reasons I added a couple of music files from the YouTube Music Library. I simply downloaded them into MyMusic folder, copied and then pasted them into the "Basseline_Sinker_Music" folder and they were then a part of the game. Easy peasy. Click on Select Song and you will be given the option of using one of two music inventories. My Music and PreInstalled Music. Simply click on a track to hear what i…6 found this helpful
Bassline Sinker is a hybrid "music" rhythm game and 2D side scrolling arcade shoot 'em up/bullet hell game. You choose a song from a selection included with the game (it's noteworthy the developer has properly credited the artists behind the songs and sound effects used) or choose one from your own library and then you get to play an arcade shmup, with the twist being that you don't control when you shoot, this is done to the rhythm of the song. Gameplay relies on positioning yourself so the right weapons from the right tones fire and hit the enemies at the right time. Whew, that's a lot of work for not much payoff. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The game features somewhat simplistic 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe …4 found this helpful
Just like Audiosurf, it's an incredibly addictive game due to being able to import your own music. The game is really challenging and has huge replayability even with when playing the same track due to the procedural generation of enemies. The bosses are really fun to fight against and the enemies all have their own unique abilities! Really fun and looking forward to playing more of this game!1 found this helpful
if you find the right music high scores can be a breeze.1 found this helpful
I loved this game, fun and works great with custom songs of any and all genres. The price definitely is worth it lol. I would 100% recommend it
Good in concept but not done well imo.
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