Up Beat

Up Beat is a Foddian-inspired Rhythm game, where you control a spirited climbing blob through a 4-note lens. Be careful however, one wrong note will send your friend plummeting down the song chart, ricocheting off of the unfortunately shaped notes.

There is a known issue where the four channels are not bound to keys unless you go to the 'Rebind' menu option and set them first. This is fixed in the GitHub Release!

To navigate the menu use Up/W, Down/S, and Space!

The code for Up Beat is available on GitHub!

Known Bugs

• If you don't click Rebind and enter the 4 keys you desire the keyboard bindings get incorrectly unbound. Fixed in GitHub Release
• European machines that use ',' not '.' in their decimal numbers will incorrectly parse the song's offset, resulting in no notes appearing for 27 minutes. Fixed in GitHub Release

Credits

All art, programming, song charting, and design were done by PhantomBadger - Check me out on Twitter!

The song used is "1/2" by "x髥莏" and is perfectly OK for streamers and other content creators! It can be listened to on YouTube here: 

Design

I made this game to try and match what I saw as the main tenants of a Foddian game;

• Failure is the players fault, and this is communicated to them!
• Failure can compound into dramatic events
• Failure rewinds progress for the player
• Players should be able to improve at it
• The difficulty curve is very punishing

I believe Up Beat meets most of these rules, the latter-most one being the trickiest to tick off due to the varying level of player's skills when it comes to rhythm games.