Friendship Melody

How To Play

Tap the Cutie Marks when the notes touch them. For best score, aim to tap them when they'll be in the center of the note.

The notes with different color, that have lines going upwards are "sliders". Tap and hold the Cutie Mark when the beginning of the slider touches it, and release your finger on the second note that ends the slider.

On PC, use keyboard to tap on corresponding Cutie Marks. You can customize keys in the options.

You can also play with the controller!

If you're on mobile, playing in Fullscreen mode is recommended. To toggle Fullscreen, tap to activate the game, and once it finishes loading assets, tap the button in the upper right corner. That button will be always available in menus afterwards.

About This Project

I have created this game from scratch, using Visual Studio Code, a code editor. The entire game was manually programmed in a single wall of text. While it isn't my first game ever, it is my very first attempt at creating a browser game powered by pure JavaScript, without the aid of any fancy engines.

This project started as an experiment on April 3rd 2023. I've been checking out what cool things could be made by just typing some code here. Exactly a month later, on May 3rd, the experiment evolved into a playable browser game. Its first appearance from that day can be seen in this video.

A forum event "Winter Wrap Up" was hosted for the game's debut. Due to mostly positive feedback, it came back a year later with the event's sequel "Shimmering Equinox," featuring new songs and various quality of life improvements. And now, it's coming back with even more songs and improvements!

Note: Attempting to load resources multiple times in quick succession may cause the server to refuse providing music files, which will make the loading get stuck at "loading music" part. This is due to CORB security feature I have no control of. When that happens, please close the tab and try again few minutes later. It's important to wait patiently, as continued attempts will only refresh the "cooldown", so to speak. As irritating as it can get, again, unfortunately I don't have control over it.

If the loading is really giving you a bad time, you can try playing this version instead:
https://mlpforums.com/rikis-domain/friendship_melody_b/
This version of the game is exactly the same, except it uses much lighter, compressed audio format. From some testing I did, it seems these files are light enough to not cause problems on repeated loading attempts. However, this audio format isn't as widely supported by operating systems/browsers, so that is a concern on its own. Notably, I've been told these don't work at all on Mac, even though information available online claims, that Safari added support for these.