The guys at Unreal Vodoo, banking on the popularity of Guitar Hero, came up with a simply amazing clone named ‘Frets on Fire’. The project was submitted as an entry for the GameDev Assembly’06 Competition, held August 3rd to 6th in
From a total of 14 entries, ‘Frets on Fire’ was selected as the winner (results) with a total of 10426 points out of 35696.
‘Frets on Fire’ truly brings the ‘Guitar Hero’ experience the masses, having both a Windows and a Linux version and requiring only an OpenGL accelerated video card (any card purchased in the last 3 to 4 years should suffice) and a keyboard.
The only downside I found was the limited number of songs (3) at the moment of release. But, because the game allows for creation of custom songs, several fan made compositions are cropping out. A good place to start is the Keyboards On Fire website were up to yesterday there were already 17 new songs in the repertoire.
‘Frets on Fire’ has an option for reporting scores to a central server, allowing the user to climb his way to the top of the World Charts. Would you be the next ‘Keyboard Hero’?
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