Friendship Melody - Shimmering Equinox 2024

[Totally Nyx 36,007]

1 star, "not bad". I think you're being a little too generous to me, game.

I'll post screenshots after getting home and trying it on keyboard.

Edited October 7 by Totally Nyx
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[Pixi-Pie 51]

I finished, it's actually really hard!  

[Livealarm 444]

It's pretty hard but really fun!!

[Silverspark184 1,347]

Just today this was what I got for Shine like rainbows 

[HereComesTom 2,266]

I suck at rhythm games---I'm a total and utter newbie to them.  For context, I tried Guitar Hero in an arcade several years ago, and after the song was over, a friend told me "You do know you have to strum, right?"  ...I did not know that!  At all.  And I never touched Guitar Hero since.

When I tried this one, the beats were coming so fast and so thick I gave up and closed the tab after the first few measures, since I'd figured out pretty dang quickly that I wasn't going to have fun with it.  I hate to say that, especially because I've got a lot of respect for Rikifive as a developer, but hopefully this feedback is enough to let you know that it's wiser to let newbies ease into the gameplay.

 

Maybe rhythm games simply aren't for me :/

[Totally Nyx 36,007]

One down. One more to go.

[DebonedAngel 182]

Gosh, I'm worse at these kinds of games than I thought...

[Totally Nyx 36,007]

Aaaaand done!

 

Just a little feedback. In fullscreen mode on Google Chrome, the menu buttons all seem to be a bit above where they appear. For example, in my screenshot, I had to click a around the exclamation point to hit the "Play Again" button. The buttons in the main menu and options menu were similarly off. Outside fullscreen mode, everything was in the right spot. I checked on Firefox as well and all the buttons were in the right place, in both fullscreen and normal.

On another note, I love these two new rhythm maps you put together (I of course had to go back and play a little Winter Wrap Up as well ). And being able to remap the keys was a nice addition. 10/10

[Rikifive 24,125]

  

21 hours ago, Pentium100 said:

Thanks for reminding me. This time I got lucky:

 

 

Not bad, not bad indeed!  

 

18 hours ago, Shadow Sky said:

Took a few attempts but did a bit better on these last couple of go's.

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Yup, the first attempts are likely to not go too well, so no worries!  I hope you had fun!  

 

9 hours ago, Pixi-Pie said:

I finished, it's actually really hard!  

Yeah, I may have went a bit too crazy with the difficulty. 

 

8 hours ago, Dupluna said:

It's pretty hard but really fun!!

It is indeed quite hard  ~ but having some fun is all what matters.

Just a friendly reminder, that if you're after the badge, it is required to submit scores of the two new featured songs: "Welcome to the Show" and "Shine Like Rainbows". And also, the screenshots didn't capture your complete UID (User ID). 

5 hours ago, Silverspark184 said:

Just today this was what I got for Shine like rainbows 

Nice!  

 

5 hours ago, DebonedAngel said:

Gosh, I'm worse at these kinds of games than I thought...

I'm certain it's just me going crazy with the difficulty, so no worries, it's alright. 

 

5 hours ago, Totally Nyx said:

One down. One more to go.

Bro is cooking  ...

2 hours ago, Totally Nyx said:

Aaaaand done!

 

Just a little feedback. In fullscreen mode on Google Chrome, the menu buttons all seem to be a bit above where they appear. For example, in my screenshot, I had to click a around the exclamation point to hit the "Play Again" button. The buttons in the main menu and options menu were similarly off. Outside fullscreen mode, everything was in the right spot. I checked on Firefox as well and all the buttons were in the right place, in both fullscreen and normal.

On another note, I love these two new rhythm maps you put together (I of course had to go back and play a little Winter Wrap Up as well ). And being able to remap the keys was a nice addition. 10/10

... and he cooked well!  

GG! Congratulations!

Huh that's interesting. Works fine for me in both Chrome and Firefox. Though I did notice, that if I have the developer console opened and thus, the Fullscreen mode doesn't actually cover the entire screen, the mouse position is indeed off. There's that funny thing about it, that there are no built-in accurate functions to get current cursor position on scaled canvas (game window) - or at least I'm not aware of any - so there are some manual maths trying to account such things behind the scenes. Did the Fullscreen mode cover the entire screen for you? - and if not, was the game window on the center of the screen?

When I have the dev console at the bottom, I have to click below buttons, and it sounds like you had it the other way around.  

Other than that, I'm glad you had some fun and liked some of the changes - thank you for playing! 

 

5 hours ago, HereComesTom said:

I suck at rhythm games---I'm a total and utter newbie to them.  For context, I tried Guitar Hero in an arcade several years ago, and after the song was over, a friend told me "You do know you have to strum, right?"  ...I did not know that!  At all.  And I never touched Guitar Hero since.

When I tried this one, the beats were coming so fast and so thick I gave up and closed the tab after the first few measures, since I'd figured out pretty dang quickly that I wasn't going to have fun with it.  I hate to say that, especially because I've got a lot of respect for Rikifive as a developer, but hopefully this feedback is enough to let you know that it's wiser to let newbies ease into the gameplay.

 

Maybe rhythm games simply aren't for me :/

Like vast majority of users here I suppose.  I mean, I'm not saying everyone sucks, but it's just that many aren't used to that type of games, and generally rhythm games aren't something everyone will like. So don't feel bad about it please.

I've never had the chance to play Guitar Hero, so I'm not too familiar with its controls either. Actually, it may sound odd given my creation here, but actually, I'm not too much into rhythm games myself. I do enjoy games, that utilize music in gameplay and the like, but I'm not a pro at that genre either, as I typically don't play these dance games and the like.

 

I get what you mean, and I totally expected that kind of feedback. Even without it being said out loud I see users struggling with the game, just making their way to the end in any way for the badge (which is totally fine). I did plan to add either slower songs and/or introduce easier difficulties to existing ones, so that it would be more appealing to wider playerbase, but I just didn't have enough time, the event is released late after all (originally planned for September 22). I'm not having a good time at life, heh.  

Perhaps they aren't, and it's fine to have your own preferences.  Ideally, I hoped to create bunch of completely different games/activities for some other occasions, so that everyone would eventually find something they'd like. If only the time would allow me to experiment...

Edited October 8 by Rikifive

[Totally Nyx 36,007]

8 minutes ago, Rikifive said:

  Huh that's interesting. Works fine for me in both Chrome and Firefox. Though I did notice, that if I have the developer console opened and thus, the Fullscreen mode doesn't actually cover the entire screen, the mouse position is indeed off. There's that funny thing about it, that there's no built-in accurate functions to get current cursor position on scaled canvas (game window) - or at least I'm not aware of any - so there are some manual maths trying to account such things behind the scenes. Did the Fullscreen mode cover the entire screen for you? - and if not, was the game window on the center of the screen?

When I have the dev console at the bottom, I have to click below buttons, and it sounds like you had it the other way around.  

Other than that, I'm glad you had some fun and liked some of the changes - thank you for playing! 

You mentioned scaling which gave me an idea. I have a somewhat large monitor, so I zoom out when I'm on the forums. I usually keep it scaled down to about 80%. I just zoomed it back to normal and tested the game in fullscreen. Fullscreen does use my whole monitor regardless of zoom level, but at 100% the buttons where in the right spot again. It turns out I was the problem all along.

[Rikifive 24,125]

2 minutes ago, Totally Nyx said:

You mentioned scaling which gave me an idea. I have a somewhat large monitor, so I zoom out when I'm on the forums. I usually keep it scaled down to about 80%. I just zoomed it back to normal and tested the game in fullscreen. Fullscreen does use my whole monitor regardless of zoom level, but at 100% the buttons where in the right spot again. It turns out I was the problem all along.

Ooh then yes, that makes sense. Somehow I didn't even think of zooming, totally forgot about such option, so didn't test it.  ...Yeah, it's misbehaving exactly like this for me as well when the zoom is anything but 100%. I'll keep that in mind, and maybe toy with it next time to see if anything can be done about it.  Thanks for feedback! 

[Snow 7,004]

Gracious me this is no easy feat! 


 

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I dared to think Shine Like Rainbows was easier in the beginning but that chorus utterly destroyed me!  but I'll take not bad for my first ever go at a rhythm game 

[Crash_xox 260]

It was fun to play!! 

[Rikifive 24,125]

11 hours ago, SnooOOOoOoOoOow said:

Gracious me this is no easy feat! 


 

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I dared to think Shine Like Rainbows was easier in the beginning but that chorus utterly destroyed me!  but I'll take not bad for my first ever go at a rhythm game 

Hehe yeah

But you did perform there better overall, so maybe it is easier after all.  

I actually got pranked myself. I added two songs, because I knew Welcome to the Show will get kinda hard, so I imagined I'll make Shine Like Rainbows to be an "easy" song to have variety. But somehow, it was quickly getting tricky the more I worked on it heh.

Either way, not bad indeed! Thank you for playing!

10 hours ago, Crash_xox said:

It was fun to play!! 

Woo the exact 30% tho!  So neat 'n round! It's the exact amount you need for the first star, so it's quite a lucky result if you think about this.

Not bad at all! Thank you for playing!

(A friendly reminder, that Shine Like Rainbows also has to be shared to get the badge. You can give it a try and share your results anytime you want, and just submit it in a new post, so that I won't miss it! )

 

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On a side note, after getting completely obliterated with critique seeing how hard it is for everyone, I might try to introduce lower difficulties this week if I find some time. I'll try to provide easier variants of the songs, and, possibly an option to slow down the notes. Would that help to make the event more enjoyable? 

[Livealarm 444]

Here are my scores: 

 

At least know you're able to see the UID code!

Edited October 9 by Dupluna

[Crash_xox 260]

27 minutes ago, Rikifive said:

A friendly reminder, that Shine Like Rainbows also has to be shared to get the badge. You can give it a try and share your results anytime you want, and just submit it in a new post, so that I won't miss it! )

Oh, done! (Not gonna lie, it was easier than Welcome to the Show for me.)

 

[Nitobit 1,761]

2 hours ago, Rikifive said:

On a side note, after getting completely obliterated with critique seeing how hard it is for everyone, I might try to introduce lower difficulties this week if I find some time. I'll try to provide easier variants of the songs, and, possibly an option to slow down the notes. Would that help to make the event more enjoyable? 

Could you also add quick restart by pressing R?  I'm on 97% in WttS, and soon I'll reach the point where I reset every time I miss.

[Rikifive 24,125]

4 hours ago, Dupluna said:

Here are my scores: 

At least know you're able to see the UID code!

Not bad indeed!  

Yeah, much better!  Although, you're still missing "Shine Like Rainbows."  "Winter Wrap Up" is a leftover from the past event, so while it's available to play, that song isn't required for the badge. It's just "Shine Like Rainbows," and "Welcome to the Show". 

4 hours ago, Crash_xox said:

Oh, done! (Not gonna lie, it was easier than Welcome to the Show for me.)

 

True, I think Shine Like Rainbows is indeed slightly easier overall. Nice, nice, you've earned the badge!

 

2 hours ago, Nitobat said:

Could you also add quick restart by pressing R?  I'm on 97% in WttS, and soon I'll reach the point where I reset every time I miss.

Not gonna lie, having to grab the mouse each time just to restart was inconvenient even for me, to say the least.  I do plan to add full keyboard support in menus in the future (the mouse will be optional for navigation), so I was thinking I'll eventually get to that when the time for it comes, buuuuut given it's not just me now, I quickly added a keyboard shortcut for restart and updated the game.

You can press "R" to restart while in the pause menu now. (Space+R)

Just keep in mind there's still that fraction-of-a-second indented delay before anything can be done in the pause menu - to prevent from accidentally intantly-unpausing or quitting. So, slam space and spam R

 

I'll be slowly working on the difficulty thing now.

[Azure Dawn 184]

This is so haaaard, I'm used to synchronizing only four buttons on one hand as with most rhythm games... Here I either have to get both hands working in sync or play on a phone screen that is clearly too small.

[Rikifive 24,125]

Yeah, I get ya. It's indeed quite different. Technically, one could rebind controls to make them somewhat similar to these in dance games and the like, but there's still the two extra buttons.   I'll be working on easier variants of the existing songs, and I'll see if I could limit the usage of the lanes to 4, without the 2 on the edges (or at least make the notes there very rare). Perhaps that would be a fair step towards beginners.

[Azure Dawn 184]

i just spent the last hour practicing welcome to the show, can't get to 80%... also shine like rainbows is just evil. my view is literally spinning now, good night.

[hanguangjun 37]

Honestly，my scores are pretty embarrassing for an enstars player but that's okay...

[Rikifive 24,125]

2 hours ago, Azure Dawn said:

i just spent the last hour practicing welcome to the show, can't get to 80%... also shine like rainbows is just evil. my view is literally spinning now, good night.

But still, these are good scores!  Yeah, I know that feel.  It's almost 6 AM for me, so I'll be going to sleep too, goodnight and thank you for playing! 

 

1 hour ago, hanguangjun said:

Honestly，my scores are pretty embarrassing for an enstars player but that's okay...

Not embarrassing at all, you've caught most of the notes after all! ~ It's just few misses and a matter of practicing timing to get perfects, but you totally nailed it!

I've checked the game you've mentioned, and, assuming I was looking at the right thing, it reminded me of Love Live! (RIP). I haven't played Love Live! myself, but my sister really liked that game.  

 

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I've released a somewhat experimental update (v1.1.2), in which I added an option to adjust the falling speed of the notes, you can find it in the layout options:

The default speed is x1.9 soooo yeah, you can make these even faster as well.

This will only affect the notes visually. The exact timing required for perfects/goods remains the same, regardless of the speed (the hits are based on time itself, rather than what's on screen). Therefore, slowing these down technically doesn't make the game any easier, it just may help with readability and player's reaction speed.

Personally, while doing 100% on normal speed isn't a problem for me, I'm actually having a bad time at slower speed.  At slower speed the screen gets too flooded for my preferences, and short sliders get quite sneaky, but hopefully everyone will find their own preferred speed. I've noticed the "Flat" perspective works better at slower speeds, so feel free to toy around.

 

That's just one step towards fixing the high difficulty issue, I'll be working on easier variants of the maps next time. I have to go to sleep now. 

Edited October 9 by Rikifive

[Nitobit 1,761]

AAAAHAHAHAHHA!!!  One more to go!!

[ZiggWheelsManning 9,942]

Here's mine, hope I got it right.