[HN Gopher] Bemuse: Online, web-based rhythm game
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       Bemuse: Online, web-based rhythm game
        
       Author : memorable
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2022-06-05 15:17 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (bemuse.ninja)
        
       | lifthrasiir wrote:
       | If you feel this game is hard, yes it is. This is yet another
       | game based on the Be-Music Source (BMS) format [1], which started
       | out as a Beatmania (and later IIDX) simulator and still continues
       | to coevolve with its commercial cousin. Beatmania IIDX is known
       | for its notorious difficulty and BMS, with its non-commercial
       | nature, is no better.
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       | In serious music video games my input should feel sufficiently
       | synchronized to audiovisual elements; smaller latency is better,
       | but _consistent_ latency is much better. In this regard Bemuse is
       | not yet very serious, although I should note many music video
       | games are not serious in my opinion anyway. But I once played
       | Bemuse years ago and it was entirely unplayable; today it feels
       | much better and would be already playable if the judgement were
       | more lenient. There is a hope.
       | 
       | (Pro tip: Make sure to calibrate the latency in the options
       | first. The default is 0ms, which is almost always incorrect, so
       | this can make a huge difference.)
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be-Music_Source
        
       | pil0u wrote:
       | This reminds me of Frets on Fire, a one-man free, open-source
       | videogame built with Python. I used to play hours on this,
       | handling my keyboard like a guitar.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frets_on_Fire
       | 
       | Edit: apparently, there was a fork in 2008 called FoFix, that
       | looks maintained https://github.com/fofix/fofix
        
       | nsb1 wrote:
       | "OK! Now you know how to play! AAaaaaand, GO!"
       | 
       | <Max 300 starts rolling down the screen>
        
       | superb-owl wrote:
       | Really slick! But the tutorial is way too hard. Give me some
       | basic quarter notes so I can catch the rhythm
        
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