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(£1341.71 raised so far [last donation 30th July 2018]. Thanks, you guys are the best!

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And our Discord for an alpha level editor and 1000+ user levels!
(we send emails only when releasing things, see a previous email here, it comes with a nostalgic gamedev story)

Experimental 2-player mode: hit CapsLock during a level to toggle. P2 uses the L key!

Experimental speed adjust: hit S or D in level select instead of Enter to play a slowed down or speeded up version.

1st April 2018: Level Editor Alpha r12a released! 
(And progress on the game itself continues... coming this year!)
Thank you for the donations and comments that have helped keep our motivation going. Get the latest level editor version here and play 400+ user levels.

30th March 2017: We've just got greenlit! All thanks to you, thank you for the support and well done.

And special thanks to Mehdi Shah for an ambrosial donation of £101, Cong Wang for an auspicious donation of £51, Jozef for a creamy donation of £40, West for a kanye donation of £31, Mr Color and for an executive donation of £30, caprachet for a invigorating donation of £30, Alex for a luscious donation of £30, The Nerdy Musician for a toothsome donation of £25, Chaz for a nectarous donation of £25, Sam for a scrumptious donation of £20, Dan for a delicious donation of £20, nic for a buttery donation of £20 and Pepijn for a super donation of £20!

2014 IGF STUDENT SHOWCASE WINNER

A one-button rhythm game heavily inspired by Rhythm Heaven!

Expanded full version coming 2018. 

WORK IN PROGRESS LEVEL #0

"Send me a new level each month sometimes!"
[20th Dec 2017 - 1904 signups! Monthly scheduled levels sneak peeks are over, but we're still giving out random levels occasionally! For now we are sending out new level editor builds to the same email list monthly.]

WIP Level #0 - ' Steinway' - linked above
WIP Level #1 - ' One Shift More' - SENT! 27th July 2016
WIP Level #2 - ' Supraventricular Tachycardia' - SENT! 27th August 2016
WIP Level #3 - ' Delay Pedal' - SENT! 27th September 2016
WIP Level #4 - ' Delay Pedal 2' - SENT! 27th October 2016
WIP Level #5 - ' Mannequin Challenge' - SENT! 2nd December 2016
Bonus Level #6 - ' ??' - SENT! 28th January 2017
WIP Level #7 - Super Oriental Insomniac - SENT! 17th March 2017
[long silent period of building up the rest of the levels]

(signing up will also keep us encouraged and working hard
and make us feel fuzzy inside, so thank you <3)

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Play our other rhythm game, A Dance of Fire and Ice!

How to Make a Rhythm Game

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来自中国的玩家们，向你们问好！十分感谢你们的热心捐款（当然，如想免费下载游戏，在下 载界面中选择"No thanks"开头的链接即可）。游戏中有一些额外的操作按键，特此说明：在选关时，按S键选关将进入慢速模式，按D键将进入加速模式。在关卡进行途中， 按大小写切换键Caps Lock键可以开启双人游戏模式，第二名玩家按"L"键来进行游戏。

假如在游戏途中发现有不同步的现象，请您(1) 用力按空格键，以能听到按键声为佳，(2)假如您使用的是Chrome浏览器，建议换用Firefox或其他内核的浏览器，因为Chrome自带的Pepper Flash插件与游戏不太兼容。祝您玩得愉快！Translation provided by 谜之声.

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Many, many hours have been spent making the engine accurate enough to

support a margin of error of a few hundredths of a second. After extensive

testing we found a calibration that worked for all browsers, except Chrome.

(If you are hitting bang on beat it will still be within the 'perfect' margin on

Chrome, it will just be less forgiving to late timings and more forgiving to hitting

early)

IF YOU INSIST ON USING CHROME:

The Chrome problem is not specific to this game, but affects

all games. It's just this game requires a degree of accuracy so high that the

tiny lag caused by Chrome's inbuilt Flash Player is enough to

throw the timing off. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK IN CHROME by going to chrome://plugins and disabling all plugins with

'PepperFlash' in the location. This will make it use the normal Flash player like the other browsers, if you have it
installed.

(apparently Chrome is shutting down Flash at the end of the year anyways, that's why we've remade the full game in Unity now, but for browser demos Unity is terrible, oh golly what will we do)

IF YOU ARE USING LINUX:

If you get significant delays in hearing sounds, check this thread for a solution. Thanks to @EspyoPT for the tip!

IF YOU STILL THINK THE TIMING IS OFF: You are

probably used to hitting earlier in all rhythm games. In this game, you must

get over the automatic compensation that you usually do. One easy way

to do this is to hit the spacebar with force, as if you are hitting a drum,

and making sure that sound coincides exactly with the clap

from the game. Try hitting

a surface near your spacebar for the first six beats,

listening to the sound of your hits,

and then SLAMMING your hand onto your spacebar on the seventh! This

advice seemed to work with almost everybody when

we had a booth at GDC. Sorry about

your spacebar:3

And if after all that you still think it is off, tweet me! This is really important to us!