Rhythm Is Power - POC

Description

Build up your combo by hitting the ball to the bat of the music! Use your trusty rusty pipe and smack the hell out of it!. Tap the tempo to choose how fast you want the music and the difficulty of the beat.

Controls

Keyboard	Gamepad	Name	Notes
WASD/Arrow Keys	Left Stick	Move
H	Bumpers	Tap Tempo	Use this to start a song, without a song you can't attack or jump
Space	A	Jump
J	X	Light Attack	A good attack for combo-ing the opponent in the air.
K	Y	Heavy Attack	Deals a lot of damage and sends the opponent flying.
L	B	Bounce Attack	Doesn't do much damage but will send the opponent into the air ready to be attacked.
S/Down arrow	Left Stick Click	Drop	Slams you down on the ground suddenly, useful for getting back into the air at an opportune moment.
P	Select	Stop Music	Stops the music so you can tap for another tempo/song.
Y/U		Adjust latency	Adjusts how much the rhythm system accounts for latency.
Esc	Start	Quit	Exits the game.

Songs

The game features quite a variety of songs, so I hope you'll tap different tempos to hear them all! Some are more difficult than others to play with because of the time signature / nature of the genre. A good one to start with would be the upbeat 80s-synth one (think just under Bille Jean tempo).

BPM	Description
60-80	3/4 chiptune-esque boom-bap jazz chords yep
80-100	Dark synth hip hop (moody)
100-120	Upbeat 80s-synth
120-140	5/4 synthfunk
140-160	Fast dancehall-house
160-180	Liquid drum and bass with some slight af jazz tones
180-200	Super-upbeat hardcore

Context

This is another game that I made this year while traveling to work on the train. I spent a significant longer time on this than the others this year due to fiddling with the tempo management architecture.

Right now it's a proof of concept / demo to show off the power of rhythm in a 'regular' game. It was meant to be played in the browser for ease of play but Unity for WebGL doesn't support threading, which is what my whole tempo code architecture is built off of >.<