Yeah, both have come up earlier in this thread. I used to contribute to step mania 10-12 years ago. I did the Xbox port, among other details. It's a project for a different time. It's not as extensible as it could be.
FoF... well... it's written in python. I'll leave it at that ;) I'd say fof is pretty terrible... On 14 Dec 2013 17:45, "deadalnix" <deadal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> >> I quite like the band ensemble games, they're good party games, and great >> rhythm practise that's actually applicable to real instrument skills too. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> It's an interesting union of skills; rendering, audio processing, >> super-low-latency synchronisation, mini and communications processing, >> animation, UI and presentation. >> >> I have done all this stuff commercially, so I can act as a sort of project >> lead of people are interested, but haven't tried to write that sort of >> software before. >> >> It also seems like a good excuse to kick off a fairly large scale and >> performance intensive D project, which I like to do from time to time. >> > > Have you considered Step mania and Fret on fire ? (Huge fan of musical > games here too) >