Friendship Melody - Shimmering Equinox 2024

[Rikifive 24,080]

40 minutes ago, -CutieMane- said:

It's something to get the hang of that's for sure lol but it was fun!

First tries may make it look like it's impossible, but yup, it should be getting better the more you try.  

Glad you had fun!

 ~just a friendly reminder, that you need to submit your results of "Welcome to the Show" as well in your next replies to get the badge.

[hanguangjun 36]

On 2024-10-08 at 9:15 PM, Rikifive said:

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. 

I checked out Love Live! and it does sound pretty similar with the idol thing and being a rhythm game. And the speed thing sounds great. Slower speeds really do flood the screen, regardless of the game, and actually makes it harder in my opinion, haha. It's cool you're trying out adding new speeds and I think the normal speed is pretty good. I find it a bit slow, but for people new to rhythm games, I think it's perfect. Good to know that the "flat" perspective works better with slower speeds; personally I prefer the default, curved one since it's similar to enstars, but I think I'll try out the "flat" one if I want to torture myself with a super slow speed for fun. I'm pretty impressed with the game as is since I really can't piece together how you'd do it; the fact that notes can fall at different speeds but the song itself doesn't speed up always trips me up for some reason haha.

[-CutieMane- 2]

Here's my "Welcome To The Show" Screenshot. I did better lol

[Deae Rising Shine~ 54,841]

2nd try, did better, hope pics wont screw up this time, i saved them just in case

[Saphire Systrine 138]

my arms burn. i did not know how painful it would be to tap my fingers like that so fast.

if this doesnt count thats TOTALLY valid XD. I just wanted to see how low of a negative score I could get on the first tries (well, second try for Welcome to the Show)

[Everest 31]

 

 

Edited October 14 by Everest

[EmmaRainboe 15]

Gosh this game is hard!!

 

[Rikifive 24,080]

On 2024-10-13 at 3:31 AM, hanguangjun said:

I checked out Love Live! and it does sound pretty similar with the idol thing and being a rhythm game. And the speed thing sounds great. Slower speeds really do flood the screen, regardless of the game, and actually makes it harder in my opinion, haha. It's cool you're trying out adding new speeds and I think the normal speed is pretty good. I find it a bit slow, but for people new to rhythm games, I think it's perfect. Good to know that the "flat" perspective works better with slower speeds; personally I prefer the default, curved one since it's similar to enstars, but I think I'll try out the "flat" one if I want to torture myself with a super slow speed for fun. I'm pretty impressed with the game as is since I really can't piece together how you'd do it; the fact that notes can fall at different speeds but the song itself doesn't speed up always trips me up for some reason haha.

Yeah, once you get the hang of it, faster speeds make it better.  If the default speed is too slow for you, you can actually bump it up now!  I hope everyone can find the speed they feel better with, so feel free to experiment.  

Thank you very much, I appreciate it! 

 

On 2024-10-13 at 5:03 AM, -CutieMane- said:

Here's my "Welcome To The Show" Screenshot. I did better lol

Awesome!  

 

22 hours ago, Deae Rising Shine~ said:

2nd try, did better, hope pics wont screw up this time, i saved them just in case

Looks great! Thank you!  

 

1 hour ago, Saphire Systrine said:

my arms burn. i did not know how painful it would be to tap my fingers like that so fast.

if this doesnt count thats TOTALLY valid XD. I just wanted to see how low of a negative score I could get on the first tries (well, second try for Welcome to the Show)

I can do better!   or worse, I should say?  I admit I also went for negatives once or twice during testing.

Yeeeeah, but if you'd somehow end up getting Completion Rate above 10%, that would be valid lmao 

 

1 hour ago, Everest said:

 

 

Very nice!  

 

55 minutes ago, EmmaRainboe said:

Gosh this game is hard!!

 

Are these your first tries?  These are nice scores!  

 

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UPDATE v1.1.3

I've added an easier difficulty for "Shine Like Rainbows". Just click/tap on the difficulties on the song list to switch these.

The "Easy" difficulty features:

• uses only 4 cutie marks (the outer ones don't have any notes)
• parts, where hands had different patterns were simplified to use one hand or share single path instead
• linked notes (where you have to press two at the same time) appear rarely, and they always are synchronized (both hands have the same, but mirrored patterns)

If someone would be so kind to give the game an another try, please let me know how do you feel about the difficulty in "Easy" mode. Making it too easy won't pose any challenge even to beginners, so I'd like to hit that balance, where it is not hard thus painful, but not too easy thus cheap either. If you can't perform well in the first tries, this is perfectly understandable and there's no need to feel down - a little bit of practice and trying few times is what it all is about.

If there's something particular, that makes it too difficult, let me know.

I'll add easier difficulties for the other songs later, because it's 7:20 AM and I need to go to sleep.  

Edited October 14 by Rikifive

[EmmaRainboe 15]

55 minutes ago, Rikifive said:

Are these your first tries?  These are nice scores!  

Not my first, no, probably my third or fourth on Welcome to the Show, and my second on Shine Like Rainbows. 

[EmmaRainboe 15]

1 hour ago, Rikifive said:

Yeah, once you get the hang of it, faster speeds make it better.  If the default speed is too slow for you, you can actually bump it up now!  I hope everyone can find the speed they feel better with, so feel free to experiment.  

Thank you very much, I appreciate it! 

 

Awesome!  

 

Looks great! Thank you!  

 

I can do better!   or worse, I should say?  I admit I also went for negatives once or twice during testing.

Yeeeeah, but if you'd somehow end up getting Completion Rate above 10%, that would be valid lmao 

 

Very nice!  

 

Are these your first tries?  These are nice scores!  

 

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UPDATE v1.1.3

I've added an easier difficulty for "Shine Like Rainbows". Just click/tap on the difficulties on the song list to switch these.

The "Easy" difficulty features:

• uses only 4 cutie marks (the outer ones don't have any notes)
• parts, where hands had different patterns were simplified to use one hand or share single path instead
• linked notes (where you have to press two at the same time) appear rarely, and they always are synchronized (both hands have the same, but mirrored patterns)

If someone would be so kind to give the game an another try, please let me know how do you feel about the difficulty in "Easy" mode. Making it too easy won't pose any challenge even to beginners, so I'd like to hit that balance, where it is not hard thus painful, but not too easy thus cheap either. If you can't perform well in the first tries, this is perfectly understandable and there's no need to feel down - a little bit of practice and trying few times is what it all is about.

If there's something particular, that makes it too difficult, let me know.

I'll add easier difficulties for the other songs later, because it's 7:20 AM and I need to go to sleep.  

The easy mode felt a lot more manageable! It still felt challenging, yet doable. This was my first try on easy but after several tries on the normal difficulty - so not truly accurate for a person playing it for the first time 

Was definitely a way more enjoyable experience. 

 

[TheRockASaurus Rex 50,472]

Here are my results, the keyboard is fun and also challenging. 

[ZiggWheelsManning 9,731]

Incredible score on those songs @TheRockASaurus  

[TheRockASaurus Rex 50,472]

39 minutes ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

Incredible score on those songs @TheRockASaurus  

Thank you, Zigg. 

[Dior 137]

This was so fun, I haven't played rhythm games in a while but I got really good scores 

 

 

[Silverspark184 1,294]

I think the Shining Rainbow song is a good start on making things easier I wish this is still going in the future the game I mean 

 

[EpicEnergy 23,134]

I have completed it, hopefully this is enough to qualify! I wasn't sure if easy mode on "Shine Like Rainbows" counted towards the badge so I decided to play it on normal. Also this is my very first rythm game that I can recall ever playing! I didn't do well, and my brain was overloaded, but it was still fun!

[TheRockASaurus Rex 50,472]

I need to do it again since I left out the UID, sorry. 

[Rikifive 24,080]

20 hours ago, EmmaRainboe said:

Not my first, no, probably my third or fourth on Welcome to the Show, and my second on Shine Like Rainbows. 

Then these are pretty decent scores!  

20 hours ago, EmmaRainboe said:

The easy mode felt a lot more manageable! It still felt challenging, yet doable. This was my first try on easy but after several tries on the normal difficulty - so not truly accurate for a person playing it for the first time 

Was definitely a way more enjoyable experience. 

 

The difference is visible, so that's nice.  Only few misses is a good result!  

Thanks for trying it out!  

16 hours ago, TheRockASaurus said:

Here are my results, the keyboard is fun and also challenging. 

Not bad! Very nice!  Thank you for playing!  

But uh, Rocky, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to play again, because your photos didn't capture your UID in the bottom-right corner.  There should be three things visible on the photos:

1. Song Title
2. Completion Rate
3. UID

I suppose I could turn a blind eye on this for you, but I see you were playing on normal difficulty, and I'd be happy if you could try out the easier difficulties I've added. It would help me adjust the difficulties in the future. 

If you'd be so kind to give it an another try, you can switch the song difficulty by tapping them on the song list:

You can also press left/right arrows on your keyboard to swap difficulties.

Also, if you haven't noticed it earlier, you can slow down the notes in options:

Just drag it down all the way to the left.  

 

10 hours ago, Dior said:

This was so fun, I haven't played rhythm games in a while but I got really good scores 

 

 

These indeed are good scores!  Well done and thank you for playing!

8 hours ago, Silverspark184 said:

I think the Shining Rainbow song is a good start on making things easier I wish this is still going in the future the game I mean 

 

Nice, I see it helped you gain a better score, so that's great!  I'm wondering if I should drop the difficulty even further, but I'd need more ponies to try it out, so that I could get a better idea at which parts are too hard.  

If I'll ever release new songs, I'll be including the easier difficulties for them as well from now on, so yeah, thank you for feedback! 

Oh and also, you haven't submitted "Welcome to the Show" yet. I just added an easier difficulty for this song too (I think it turned out to be easier than Shine Like Rainbows), so I encourage you to give it a try and share your results to get the badge!  

 

7 hours ago, EpicEnergy said:

I have completed it, hopefully this is enough to qualify! I wasn't sure if easy mode on "Shine Like Rainbows" counted towards the badge so I decided to play it on normal. Also this is my very first rythm game that I can recall ever playing! I didn't do well, and my brain was overloaded, but it was still fun!

That's more than enough, great!  Yes, lower difficulty counts as well - I added "Easy" modes for all songs now, and thus, updated the rules in the OP to mention, that any difficulty is accepted.

If you haven't played games like that before, then it's understandable it all will look confusing ~ I admit the normal difficulties are actually somewhat hard, even for skilled in that genre players, so they aren't too friendly for inexperienced players.

Perhaps try the easier modes and let me know how hard are they?  It's totally okay if you had enough tho!  

Thank you for playing!  

7 minutes ago, TheRockASaurus said:

I need to do it again since I left out the UID, sorry. 

Oh it's totally okay Rocky. From one point of view it's not bad, because I'd be happy if you could try out the easier difficulties, like I've mentioned earlier. It'll be a valuable feedback for me.

No worries, take it easy~

 

 

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UPDATE v1.1.4

Added "Easy" difficulties for "Welcome to the Show" and "Winter Wrap Up", so now all songs have easier modes.

Due to the new easier mode becoming available, and taking recent occasional forum downtimes into consideration, I've decided to extend the duration of the event by one week.

I hope the easier modes will allow inexperienced players to have more fun.

[ZiggWheelsManning 9,731]

31 minutes ago, TheRockASaurus said:

I need to do it again since I left out the UID, sorry. 

Don't worry @TheRockASaurus, everypony makes mistakes  You'll get it right.  

[Skylight Scintillate 1,970]

Here are my attempts. I kept intending to submit them for a while, but the forums didn't exactly cooperate. 

[TheRockASaurus Rex 50,472]

I did it once again and here are my new results. 

Edited October 15 by TheRockASaurus

[North Star 5,113]

woo! managed to get a positive score on easy mode  thanks for this event  very sleek and I <3 these songs

[Silverspark184 1,294]

 

My best score so far for welcome to the snow

[Rikifive 24,080]

20 hours ago, Skylight Scintillate said:

Here are my attempts. I kept intending to submit them for a while, but the forums didn't exactly cooperate. 

Yeah, the forums are wonky lately... Either way, these are decent scores! Thank you for playing!  

 

20 hours ago, TheRockASaurus said:

I did it once again and here are my new results. 

Wooooo~ Rocky! 70% on Welcome to the Show!  Very nice! Thank you for playing!  

 

6 hours ago, North Star said:

woo! managed to get a positive score on easy mode  thanks for this event  very sleek and I <3 these songs

I probably should reduce the score penalty for mistapping, I don't want anyone to end up with debts.

Well done! ~and thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 

 

6 minutes ago, Silverspark184 said:

 

My best score so far for welcome to the snow

Good, good, that is certainly a nice start  Thank you for playing!

[PwincessLiv 12]

It was fun playing      .