This game is called "Rythm Typing". I chose a famous music from Super Mario Bros. Some pictures and sound effects from internet.
I want the players who want to play rythm games to experience a different Rythm game, and the players who want to play typing game to experience a different typing game.
I decided to make a rythm game, but it should not be limited by only seval input keys(eg.4 arrows). I wanted to have 26 charactors appear ramdomly on random places on the screen. At the same time, all the charactors should appear with rythm. And when typing it correctly at the right time. There will be random sound effects created by the players. This makes the music interesting and different every time you play.
1. It is a rythm game with a lot of, say 26, input buttons. This might be interesting because traditional rythm game only have 4 or 8 input buttons.
2. It is a also a typing game with rythm, so when you want to practice your typing, you will feel pleasure with the music. Because you add sound effects to the origional music.
3. Because the charactors and sound effects are all generated randomly, you will feel different evey time you play. This is a big difference from traditional rythm games.
The result of the game does fullfill my goals. The randomly generated charators and sound effects fit the Mario themed song very well. Typing when you create a different music makes fun.I also have three different difficulty levels to chooose.
I planed to add some strategy features to the game, eg. the charactors have different colors, and you don't need to type when certain color(eg. green) passes by. Then that charactor will pass through the middle and hit the wall and change the color, then it goes back torwards the middle. I didn't do it becuase it may become really complicated for most of the rythm players and typing players. Also, the most important reason is: I don't have enough time:p
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