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."
They kind of miss the point (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:...why? (Score:3, Interesting)
well with usb keyboards going dirt cheap these days, it shouldn't be too hard to hack up a halfway decent controller based on a guitar shaped hunk of wood and some keys hacked in and the keyboard circuit board hidden inside the body...
I'm off to find some wood and a cheap USB keyboard for hacking this up with... I'm just off to the shops... I may be some time... :)