Antempo
Harold is a nerdy ant, bullied by his classmates for not acting like other ants. The solution? Joining the middle school marching band to make friends with other nerds! Rhythm tryouts are in one day... are you ready?
Textured, hand-drawn 2D art inspired by children's literature 🎨
Playful, hand-crafted music and SFX 🎵
Five distinct levels of rhythm-based gameplay 🎮
Use your arrow keys to move Harold the ant at the right beat!
A game by Playful Plover, with Julia (@romanhyacinths) on art, animation and narrative (read her post-mortem of the jam experience here!); pleadthefilth on composing and SFX; and Patbug on programming and design.
Made from scratch in four days for GMTK 2026.
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This is beautiful!
Thanks so much! You've got the whole unit blushing! 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
This made me smile.
Love to hear it! Thanks for playing :)
My favorite game in the jam out of the ones I have played!
Thank you; I'm so glad to hear that! :)
Absolutely beautiful. Enjoyed every single bit (or beat) of this game
Thanks so much; so glad you enjoyed! :)
i would die for harold
Confirmed: Harold's strongest soldier 🫡🫡🫡
Harold is extremely flattered, he hardly knows what to do with himself!
Such a lovely game!
Thank you!!! 🐜🐜🐜
Extremely Cute!!!
Thank you!!
Thanks so much! 🐜✨
Love this! I played jazz piano through high school and this reminded me of some of the exercises we would do in counting. Would be so fun if this game was further developed to include more complex rhythm with syncopation etc. The art, visuals, and game-feel are all great! Would love to see Harold become a latin jazz marching extraordinaire :-)
Thanks so much for the kind words, and those are some great ideas for expansion :)
Who knows what's in store for Harold next?! This is such a nice sentiment, thank you for sharing!
Absolutely gorgeous. Probably one of the best art styles I’ve seen in the jam. Great job!
Thanks so much! Love your art, so I'm particularly glad you enjoyed that aspect here!
Great work!
Thanks friend :)
Thanks so much!! 🐜🐜🐜
INCREDIBLE GAME !!!!! Great gamefeel, great visuals, great music, great vibe WOW !!! LOVE IT KEEP IT UP
Thank you!! :)
Wow!! Thank you for the kind words!!!
Loved it a lot. We need the Harold x Bully visual novel stat.
Yessir, we're working overtime to get it out 💪
(and thank you!)
If only we'd had more time... 😔
I love this!!! Very fun, very cute, beautiful style, and the little sound effects are so satisfying!
Thanks so much for playing! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Yay!! So glad you liked it!
Very unique idea, I think with some designing it can have a lot of potential
Thank you!! :)
Thanks so much for playing!!