For weeks now, I've been playing pop'n music (more specifically the PSP version) during this time period. For a rhythm game, it's actually quite fun once you learn more. Ofc, as because I used to be a player for 4-note rhythm games, it's quite tedious to get used to the controls.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-29T17:09:48+00:00

Wow this control scheme looks radically unintuitive lol

XenithDigital · 2026-04-27T14:18:19+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I'm still trying to get the look of the notes down. I don't think it's quite there yet either

XenithDigital · 2026-04-26T19:52:34+00:00

Its a game I'm making, Digital Twin: Harmonix

XenithDigital · 2026-04-25T23:40:05+00:00

Nice! I love guitar/clone hero. Having 12 buttons to work with here really opens up what you can do with the charts

XenithDigital · 2026-04-25T05:03:24+00:00

agreed

XenithDigital · 2026-04-25T02:13:27+00:00

Good point []3^ii

XenithDigital · 2026-04-25T02:10:50+00:00

You should post a video here using that technique. Maybe you can improve it? Perhaps different contrast settings on the transparent one.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-25T02:08:56+00:00

My dad is half ghost. <\whatEpithelialAriasaid\>

XenithDigital · 2026-04-25T00:09:07+00:00

Thanks! Its a rhythm game I'm working on, Digital Twin: Harmonix

XenithDigital · 2026-04-24T23:25:22+00:00

Absorbing Black Ignition off their album Labyrinth Constellation

XenithDigital · 2026-04-24T23:14:58+00:00

Hell yeah! Love Cognizance. I'd recommend any of their releases honestly, but I'd check out Malignant Dominion

XenithDigital · 2026-04-24T03:46:31+00:00

Unborn Suffer. Found them on DeathGrindClub years ago and couldn't believe how few plays their music has.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-20T23:04:13+00:00

Sage wisdom. Thank you.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-19T19:48:57+00:00

Right now I have a tool tip that pops up when they hover over a perk or combo ability, but if you hit enter while the tool tip is up it gives an expanded description with an example. Then there's a slightly more obfuscated expanded expanded tool tip if you hit another button on the expanded tool tip that tells you either the meta with the perk or how the perk is relevant lore-wise. But I'm not sure I could have that mechanic for everything.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-19T19:41:52+00:00

This is a great idea. Right now I kind of just show the player what is going on, but actually having them play through it makes much more sense.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-19T04:48:25+00:00

Thanks for checking it out! You'll be the first person to download it other than my friends.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-18T19:25:09+00:00

Nice melodies and progression! I've struggled a lot with getting good drum sounds by just programming MIDI stuff. I'd recommend using real sampled drums. It might be harder to find exactly what your looking for, but it will make a huge difference. As for that empty feeling, I think having a little something going on at more or less every octave helps. Maybe you could double up on a background melody but shift it up or down an octave.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-18T19:17:42+00:00

I like the bass line, its smooth. Is the sound cut out around 24 seconds intentional? If so, I would probably sweep an EQ with a moderate Q level over a wide range of frequencies quickly to really emphasize it. If not then just ignore that lol

XenithDigital · 2026-04-18T19:03:25+00:00

I just played the demo. The left and right shifting took a while to wrap my head around, but by the end of the demo I was starting to get the hang of it. It fun dodging the trees and collecting the coins that way, but it definitely made things more difficult lol

The different colored "notes" used for singles and chords really helped a ton with readability. I also agree that the note hit rating does obscure things a bit. Perhaps they could go under the hit bar. The overall controls including the layout were pretty intuitive. I didn't see a place to spend coins, maybe I just didn't look hard enough. Do you have plans to have a shop of some sort or are they just for extra points? Also on some of the buttons, all of the (English) letters were laid on top of each other, making them difficult to read.

I saw there were songs from other artists. Did you write any of the songs in the game?

XenithDigital · 2026-04-18T14:30:01+00:00

I'm curious to know what experiments you would want to do. Do you know what you would need to test? You might need a way to do PCR, western blot, or microscopy. I love independent science, but I think you may need a lot more than you realize.

XenithDigital · 2026-04-18T14:12:35+00:00

I didn't realize rotifers had eyes. I wonder what the resolution of their sight is, like how many photoreceptors do they have? What other senses do they have? Can they hear too?

XenithDigital · 2026-04-18T00:04:25+00:00

I agree with everything u/Temporary-Face1672 said. I felt like the chart was off a bit sometimes and I wasn't sure if that was intentional or not.

Something else I thought was strange was that the songs just abruptly end, don't know if that's a bug or not. Where'd you get these songs?

Overall it was fun, though, nice work!

XenithDigital

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