On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 10:43:24 UTC, Manu wrote:
So, I'm a massive fan of music games. I'll shamefully admit
that I was
tragically addicted to Dance Dance Revolution about 10 years
ago. Recently,
it's Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
You're 6 years behind the curve =). My brother got Guitar hero 2
for Christmas one year and I was instantly hooked. Guitar Hero 3
still remains my most played game besides maybe Civilization IV.
The problem is though, that Neversoft and Harmonix completely
fucked up the
GH and RB franchises. Licensing problems, fragmented
tracklists. It's
annoying that all the songs you want to play are spread across
literally 10
or so different games, and you need to constantly change disc's
if you want
to play the songs you like.
Did they ever... It's really Activision's fault for running
Guitar Hero into the ground. I remember them releasing a
statement around 2009 saying that they planned to release 6 new
Guitar Hero games within that year alone. It was then that I knew
it was over.
I've been meaning to kick off a guitar hero clone since GH2
came out. I
started one years ago as a fork of my Guitar Hero song editor
for PS2, and
I added support for drums before GH4 or RB were conceived, but
then when
they announced those games they stole my thunder and it went
into
hibernation.
Have you heard of Frets on Fire?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frets_on_Fire
I remember trying this out several years ago, though it didn't
really have that smoothe Guitar Hero feel.
I'm very keen to resurrect the project (well, start a new one,
with clean
code, in D).
Are there any music game nerds hanging around here who would be
interested
in joining a side project like this? It's a lot more
motivating, and much
more fun to work in a small team.
I wish I had the time.
