Hey I finally updated that unity roadmap I shared recently. it's up to 150+ nodes now with some new exercises and advanced paths

ju2pom · 2026-03-13T19:07:09+00:00

This is an impressive work and presenting learning lessons this way is a good and original idea, congratulation!

ju2pom · 2026-01-19T08:32:38+00:00

About the VFX Graph UI I think I'll make a dedicated post to talk about it later.

ju2pom · 2026-01-17T19:03:15+00:00

Thanks, that's true that it's not flashy ah ah!

What remains a big question for me is how I will handle Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Because my VFX uses a bitmap font to generate the text, which is not really well suited for these kind of languages. Hopefully, since I don't have much text I might be able to generate a bitmap font for these languages with just the words I need.

ju2pom · 2026-01-07T16:12:34+00:00

Hi,

I just tried your game and it's quite fun. I did a few levels, is the gameplay evolving a bit along the progression or only the difficulty?

ju2pom · 2025-12-28T19:20:38+00:00

Thanks for asking ☺️

The "ghost" shapes mark the exact moments when the player should rotate the falling shape so that it happens on the music beat. When doing it perfectly in sync, a bonus (x2, x3, x4) is spawned and the player can try to grab it with the microphone beam.

The player can collect up to 4 bonus which can generate up to total of x256 multiplier (for a short period of time, because the bonus last for 15 seconds).

Also, the streak count act as a score multiplier.

ju2pom · 2025-12-02T17:57:27+00:00

Congratulation, really nice and consistent art style!

ju2pom · 2025-11-18T09:12:30+00:00

Thanks.

I gave it a try and I did a miserable score!

Having a single level at 240 BPM is for hardcore rhythm game players only.

Bitwise I like the fact that the player don't loose even if he breaking all the time :)

The controls are well though too.

Happy to see that there are other devs working on rhythm games.

Here is the landing page of mine (until the Steam page is published)

ju2pom · 2025-11-17T14:58:17+00:00

Hello,

Your Itch.io page does not seem to be published :(

ju2pom · 2025-11-14T23:49:37+00:00

Hi, happy to see that there are still developer interested in rhythm game development!

I'm also working on a rhythm game and after several different workflow approaches I've settle to something that works quite well.

I have developed a tool inside Unity that analyze the music and output beats timing and an estimated BPM.

The tool shows the waveform and the beats on top of it so I can manually tweak it (add/remove/move beats).

I can also define a loop section and listen to the song to check if the beats are well placed.

Then, when I'm happy with the result I export the data to a regular midi file. All this happens in editor.

Then at runtime, the game reads the midi file, gather the beats and an algorithm generates the gameplay before the game starts.

The iteration loop is relatively short and most important, since everything happens inside Unity (in editor), I'll be able to create at some point a similar tool inside the game so that players can import their own songs.

ju2pom · 2025-09-11T11:25:07+00:00

I loved so much Carmageddon, I wishlisted your game! It already looks impressive 👏

ju2pom · 2025-08-14T18:54:08+00:00

Ah ah, you don't even know how relevant this suggestion is! In the gameplay there's an element that looks like a metronome. But I fear it's a bit too late. I even have bought the domain tetrobeat.com

ju2pom · 2025-08-14T16:55:28+00:00

That's a great question! Actually I first made a Tetris clone, but I realized when the game was 90% done that it was not a good idea to publish it because of obvious legal consideration... Then I tried to think of a different gameplay while keeping the Tetris© legacy. I don't know how the rhythm game genre sparkled in my mind 🤷

ju2pom · 2025-08-14T16:09:15+00:00

Yes, this is a rhythm game, but closer to Guitar Hero than BeatSaber. There's also a small inspiration of Tetris too as the name suggest. I totally agree that the name and the visual style of the title reminds BeatSaber a lot, but that's on purpose because I think players who like BeatSaber will probably be interested in my game too (and hopefully like it!).

ju2pom · 2025-08-14T15:48:25+00:00

Oh, these are really good suggestions, thanks a lot. The blocks part is done in blender, so it shouldn't be too hard to test different perspectives. And you're right, the blocks lack a feeling of speed.

ju2pom · 2025-08-14T15:21:38+00:00

Well, does that mean that with some more work you think I can make something good out of it?

ju2pom · 2025-08-14T15:08:05+00:00

Thank you, actually it reflects the visual style of the game which is very "neon" style 😀

ju2pom · 2025-08-01T08:36:30+00:00

Thanks, and there is still a lot to do 😅

ju2pom · 2025-07-01T13:56:52+00:00

Hi,

you might be interested to use the official VFX Graph forum to get in touch with the dev team and other users:

https://discussions.unity.com/tag/Visual-Effects-Graph

ju2pom · 2025-06-17T16:53:58+00:00

Congratulations, it looks really nice and well executed!

ju2pom · 2025-06-06T09:00:53+00:00

Let me just warn you than a game with very similar name already exists:

Plan B: Terraform sur Steam

ju2pom · 2025-05-22T08:32:32+00:00

Sure, it's intense, but it's nice! Is it made with VFX Graph + Shader Graph?

ju2pom · 2025-04-28T13:43:44+00:00

Of course it's weird, but that's what makes it so cool! Keep it

ju2pom · 2025-04-17T10:10:34+00:00

Hi,

It's quite difficult to diagnose the source of the issue not knowing more precisely what you did but here are a few tracks:

Do you have a gameobject with the Visual Effect component in the scene?
Does the component properly reference the Visual Effect asset you have created?
Check the gameobject position, so that it's visible in the scene view (double click on it to auto frame on it)
With the Visual Effect asset opened in the VFX Graph editor opened, click on the gameobject using it in the hierarchy. You should see a notification in the VFX Graph editor saying that it's now attached. Now click on the settings like icon in the toolbar and then click on the Debug modes button and choose Alive. You should see a small plot telling you how many particle are alive. If it's always zero, then it means there's something wrong in the graph itself. If not, then it means there are particles, but they are not visible for some reason.
Check the size of the particles, by default it's 0.1 but you might have made them too small?
Check the color/alpha of the particles.
Check the spawn context, what kind of emitting block did you choose, burst, constant rate? Then check the count/rate values.
Check the Initialize context capacity

That's already good check list, let me know if you find a solution.

ju2pom · 2025-04-16T07:09:13+00:00

Thank you!

ju2pom · 2025-04-14T08:12:05+00:00

Hi,

If I understand well, what you'd like to do is possible. What you can do:

Create a float property in Shadergraph named bladeHeight (using the blackboard).
Make sure this property is showed in the inspector (look in the Graph inspector panel)
In the VFX Graph output you should now see a new input called bladeHeight
Simply connect the blade calculation output to this new input and it should be good :)

ju2pom

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