Frets on Fire - Guitar Hero for Linux/Windows 69
abyssi writes "Frets on Fire, for Linux and Windows, play with your keyboard-alternative to the ever-so-popular Guitar Hero, has been released at ASSEMBLY '06 demo party's Game Development competition together with 13 other experimental, indie games including a new game from the creators of the popular Dismount series. ASSEMBLY '06 runs from 3rd to 6th of August in Helsinki, Finland and enjoys over 5000 persons in attendance. A 24h/day webcast is available at AssemblyTV.net starting Thursday 3.8.2006 at 14:00."
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I'll Tell You Why! (Score:3, Informative)
Just grap a USB adapter from a vendor like Lik Sang [lik-sang.com] and you can use your Guitar Hero Guitar or DDR dancepad on the PC, making it more like the original that they're cloned from.
Re:I'll Tell You Why! (Score:3, Informative)
However, anyone who's ever tried to use the guitar hero controller with any non-guitar hero game knows that it does some
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It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see the Guitar Hero controllers working with those same Playstation->PC adapters.
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Before that, I actually also got hooked on "frequency" and "amplitude", the precursors that were played with the regular ps2 controller. These were also tons of fun, also very addictive, and also gave you the sensation of "playing" the song. Admittedly, I haven't played either of the earlier versions since the guitar does add a lot to the experience, but I imagine
Re:...why? (Score:5, Informative)
1) They came up with a novel control scheme that's not too far off from being as good as the guitar hero controller:
Pick up your keyboard. Place your left hand under the F1 - F4 keys. Your right index finger should fall on F1 -- this is the "First Fret", F2 is the second, etc. Hold the keyboard like you would the neck of a guitar.
The default "Pick" key is enter, but I think I'd suggest space.
However, I was unable to actually play this game correctly, as I'm on a laptop, and as such, cannot "pick up" my keyboard as described. I've got keyboards around, but none of those damn PS/2 to USB adaptors.
It's really pretty decent -- it seems to respond to input almost identically to guitar hero, and it has a song editor built in, so it could potentially take off like Step Mania did. However, it only ships with 3 songs, and I couldn't find any user contributed songs via google.
Anyway, the aforementioned control scheme makes this a lot closer to playing guitar hero than playing step mania on the keyboard is to playing DDR.
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I'm saving the actuall wooden mock-up guitar controller project for later :)
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Pick up your keyboard. Place your left hand under the F1 - F4 keys. Your right index finger should fall on F1 -- this is the "First Fret", F2 is the second, etc. Hold the keyboard like you would the neck of a guitar.
-1, Batshit Insane
Makes me wonder... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Midi's pretty old technology, though, so I bet the price could go down a ways if a larger market developed.
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that works only if you play one string at time, no bends, no vibrato, no whammy.
music recognition doesn't work with polyphonics. that's why midi pickups are needed. those actually are six pickups (one for each string) in a single case.
Re:Makes me wonder... (Score:2)
I know very little about MIDI, but I have to ask: why doesn't it work ? After all, the strings are all vibrating at different frequencies (that's why you have different strings to begin with :), so it should trivial to separate each ones contribution to the overall sound wave. I'm sure an experienced person could just look at a graphical representatio
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then you have the problem that you can make the same tone on diffe
But it's different for this (Score:2)
However, what if you had a program where you could take a guitar, and tune it to the application rather than the other way around, with possibly a bit of back-tuning to compensate for guitar/string differences. After all, all the app needs to know is if the input, with a variatio
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the pickups themselves aren't that difficult to make, with 6 piezo elements and a couple of hours with a soldering iron you can even make one yourself converting it to midi is the difficult bit.
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I want to see a PC game that is like Keyboardmania that I can connect my MIDI keyboard to and play that way.
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but i rather mean something along the lines of casio dg-10 (which even looks like a game controller).
They kind of miss the point (Score:4, Interesting)
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(Actually, that's not true at all. The graphics and music is the tough part.)
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If you get the time, look at tAAt's entry, which has an INCREDIBLY funny video
Matthew Walster
AssemblyTV.net monkey =)
What we all want to know (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps it wold work if you picked your keyboard up and held it like a guitar. (Warning: This may get you strange looks.)
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That's actually what they suggest you do, and that's what the default keymap is setup for.
Here's the official site:
http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/uv/fretsonfire/
And the demo video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5rANYBQvF0
Their logo is a guy holding the keyboard upside down.
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Ja but you even doing that you would not be able to play like mich because you SUCK.
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Doesn't work for me. (Score:1)
I then tried it on my Windows XP with Intel GMA 900 and got a similar error:
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(W) GLEWpy not found -> Emulating Render to texture functionality.
(D) Initializing audio.
(D) Audio configuration: (44100, -16, 1)
(D) Initializing video.
With that in mind, I installed GLEWpy (after installing Python itself, which the GLEWpy installer looks for), but that didn't help. Anyone with other ideas to help pin this down?
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My brother is quite a talented guitarist but I don't think this would automatically mean that he would "pwn" at guitar heroes (At least that's my theory; feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
You are wrong, but for the right reason: Guitar Hero is nothing like playing a real guitar. However, it uses two skills that every guitarist must have: good rhythm, and good finger dexterity. I would similarly expect a pianist to do quite well at the game, even though the actual action of "playing" is completely diff
Finally! (Score:2)
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http://www.hardkore.org/~ohsnap/ [hardkore.org]
That one actually uses the GH miniSG controller via ps2->usb adapter. Its pretty sweet, and theres tons of songs available already. Too bad most of them are wicked hard and I'm average at best.
Great, but depressing (Score:2)
I do find it rather discouraging, though, that a demo hacked up at a conference can be better than 90% of other linux games, most of which have been in development for months or years.
Perhaps we need to start sponsoring more promising coders to go to these kind of events.