Rhythm Zone (a Guitar Hero clone) is coming to Steam on 20th July!

[acare84]

I like Guitar Hero Series but I don't have any console so I can't play them (I know Frets on Fire on PC BTW) but Rhythm Zone is coming to Steam on 20th July. With this game you can play your songs like you do on Audiosurf or Beat Hazard. Regardless of your taste in music, you can play your favorite songs. Rhythm Zone supports a wide variety of file types and will identify most common songs against our database.

Here is the website of the game you can see the screenshots and watch the trailer.

http://emerson.mh2o.com/index.php?p=about

Also official Steam Community Group in here.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/rhythmzone

[ultio]

Guitar Hero is available for the PC as well.
The game doesn't look that promising, it's just a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off.

[acare84]

Only 3 Guitar Hero games are available on PC. Also they don't support your musics to play.

[Trashcantoy]

Guitar Hero is available for the PC as well.
The game doesn't look that promising, it's just a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off.
it does look like guitar hero with a bit of audiosurf but it doesnt have to suck cause of that.

also, in b4 Amy claiming the game sucks and that Beat Hazard is better.

[Oneironaut]

If it can reasonably represent the song that your playing, and supports the guitar hero controller, I'll be interested.

[Spykirby]

i wuld be more interested in a o2mania clone that let's u load up ur own tracks. 7keys beats 4keys :D

[epsylon_Z1]

attack of the clones

[Dreadjaws]

I'm very happy with my guitar for the Wii and the Guitar Hero games. Using a guitar controller on the PC would be a nuisance, unless you have a huge monitor (which I don't), so I'm not interested in this one.

I give to you that being able to play your own songs seems interesting, but unless taken good care in the programming, it could end up working badly. A game like this is not like Audiosurf oF Beat Hazard, it requires much more precision at recognizing the notes. If it manages to do it, though, it might end up spelling doom for Guitar Hero. Still, I really don't think it's gonna happen.

[Sonic Boom]

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out Rhythm Zone!

We, the developer’s here at Sonic Boom Games are really excited to let you guys get your hands on the game come July 20th, until then we’ll be updating our Official Steam Group page with announcements and Rhythm Zone news updates!

Be sure to join our Official Steam Group to make sure you don’t miss a thing! Our Rhythm Zone Steam Group page can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/rhythmzone

You can also check out the Official Rhythm Zone website at www.rhythmzonegame.com

[acare84]

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out Rhythm Zone!

We, the developer’s here at Sonic Boom Games are really excited to let you guys get your hands on the game come July 20th, until then we’ll be updating our Official Steam Group page with announcements and Rhythm Zone news updates!

Be sure to join our Official Steam Group to make sure you don’t miss a thing! Our Rhythm Zone Steam Group page can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/rhythmzone

You can also check out the Official Rhythm Zone website at www.rhythmzonegame.com

How much it will cost? Thank you.

[Spykirby]

i hope u can just use the keys DFJK to play the game without another button to press to accually hit.

[Spathy]

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out Rhythm Zone!

We, the developer?s here at Sonic Boom Games are really excited to let you guys get your hands on the game come July 20th, until then we?ll be updating our Official Steam Group page with announcements and Rhythm Zone news updates!

Be sure to join our Official Steam Group to make sure you don?t miss a thing! Our Rhythm Zone Steam Group page can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/rhythmzone

You can also check out the Official Rhythm Zone website at www.rhythmzonegame.com

Afew questions

-Price?
-How does the leaderboard work? So if i play 'TNT by ACDC' does my friend or people on the internet have to have that same exact file i am using? Or can people cheat by naming a file that really isn't the song?
-Is there Rock Band/Guitar Hero Guitar support? I know i can plug my PS3 controller on the PC with the right drivers.

My feedback to you.
-I kind of don't like the random arthouse electro seizure backgrounds. Do you have plans to include a background that is sort of like a concert with people playing like the Rockband/Guitar Hero series?

[somebody]

I would be more interested in a DJ Hero clone

Are there any plans to make this in the future?

[Dreadjaws]

-How does the leaderboard work? So if i play 'TNT by ACDC' does my friend or people on the internet have to have that same exact file i am using? Or can people cheat by naming a file that really isn't the song?


I'm not sure, but if it's anything like the Audiosurf leaderboards there shouldn't be a problem.

BTW, I didn't know developers also showed up in the forums. That's pretty cool, it shows they care about customers feedback... uh, unless he's a bot, of course.

[velvetmeds]

these kind of games fail so much

play a real guitar

[Spykirby]

there shuld be a discount for ppl that never bought DJ hero, RockBand, Guitar Hero or a plastic guitar ^^

[Dreadjaws]

these kind of games fail so much

play a real guitar

Eh, sure... You know, Call of Duty fails so much, why don't you go to a real war instead?

I think you entirely miss the point of these games (or any games, for that matter).

[velvetmeds]

that comparison made no sense

in war you can die. picking up a guitar and playing not only is easy but it's also...not dangerous durr durr durr

[Ciaos]

You do know playing a real guitar and guitar hero/clones is completely different right?

[velvetmeds]

another reason to play a real one. the enjoyment from it is...much bigger than what you get in a stupid game

[Dreadjaws]

that comparison made no sense

in war you can die. picking up a guitar and playing not only is easy but it's also...not dangerous durr durr durr

What I meant, and it should have been obvious, is that the entire point of games is doing things you can't actually do in real life, for one reason or another.

I want to be able to play a song without going to all the hassle of having to learn to play guitar; I want to be able to shoot people's heads off without all the moral/legal/conscience destroying issues; I want to be able to fight mythological monsters without having to make the breakthtrough in genetic engineering that would make it possible for me to create such beasts.

Games are escapism from real life. You can't propose to stop gaming and do the real-life equivalent because that entirely defeats their purpose.

I don't want to learn guitar, I don't like it. I don't find it enjoyable. But I do like Guitar Hero. Everyone has different tastes.

[velvetmeds]

in no way did i disagree with that, it's pretty much what i said anyway. you play war games cause you obviously don't want to go to war and have the real experience

but this doesn't apply here because as i said, playing the guitar is easy and you don't even have to "learn" to play it to play songs

hell i remember the first song i "learned". felt much better than most experiences video games ever offered

[T@F]

Looks good,but if it's keyboard only then i shall give it a miss tbh.
But if i can use my guitar hero 3 guitar then hmm maybe i would buy it.

[AxoZombie]

another reason to play a real one. the enjoyment from it is...much bigger than what you get in a stupid game

give me the money and i will buy a real guitar :rolleyes:

[velvetmeds]

i'm pretty sure 90% of guitar hero fans have spent more on GH games/franchise than what is needed to buy a cheap good enough begginer guitar. doesn't take much more than 100 bucks

[Dreadjaws]

in no way did i disagree with that, it's pretty much what i said anyway. you play war games cause you obviously don't want to go to war and have the real experience

but this doesn't apply here because as i said, playing the guitar is easy and you don't even have to "learn" to play it to play songs

hell i remember the first song i "learned". felt much better than most experiences video games ever offered

It's still an entirely different experience. I like rythm games, but I don't like playing real instruments. And I'm far from the only one, seeing how well these games sell.

[velvetmeds]

i won't argue anymore, sorry for interrupting discussion about the game

[Chapa9dj]

I love music games. :D
This sounds interesting. It'd be great if i can plug my Rock Band 2 instruments on PC.
I'm totally looking forward to this!

i'm pretty sure 90% of guitar hero fans have spent more on GH games/franchise than what is needed to buy a cheap good enough begginer guitar. doesn't take much more than 100 bucks

There's nothing wrong with that.
People like me would rather spend on this kind of stuff.
It's not easy learning a real instrument and the most important, ''Starting a band'' that share the same tastes about music.

[Yossa]

these kind of games fail so much

play a real guitar

Beat me too it!

/respect

[Ciaos]

I daresay I've had more fun playing Guitar Hero Multi/Rockband that I did playing an actual guitar.

I guess you rage at people playing Pro Evo or something?

[ViRUS2008]

also, in b4 Amy claiming the game sucks and that Beat Hazard is better.

Enjoy your rep :D

[Forsythia]

Could people please shut up about playing a real guitar instead? It's getting quite old. Why play Tetris, move some real bricks instead! Why play Mario, jump on real turtles instead! :rolleyes:

But this game looks quite fun, at least I'll be able to use my entire music library! So much for buying DLC! :D

[Dreadjaws]

Could people please shut up about playing a real guitar instead? It's getting quite old. Why play Tetris, move some real bricks instead! Why play Mario, jump on real turtles instead! :rolleyes:

But this game looks quite fun, at least I'll be able to use my entire music library! So much for buying DLC! :D

That's what I said, it's not the same thing. I nearly killed my turtle jumping on it trying to get infinite 1-ups, and although eating that mushroom made everything look smaller, turns out it was an hallucination :(

[tonka]

I was looking for a game like it.

...and I'm quite sure that, I'll buy this game.

[Sonic Boom]

Hey everyone, thanks for all your interest! Let me answer some of your questions here.

A lot of you were curious about the price of Rhythm Zone, well to clarify that Rhythm Zone will normally be priced at $9.99. But for the first week of sale starting July 20th, were going to offer Rhythm Zone at 10% off!

For questions about Leaderboards, Rhythm Zone will have both Global and Friends boards. We utilize Last.fm's fingerprint technology to ensure the songs you analyze match up with your friends or any other Rhythm Zone player's songs. However, you can feel free to edit your songs label information, since the song is not identified by the label. The song is identified by the music itself.

As far as controllers go, Rhythm Zone is designed for keyboard use (with 4 button input and NO strum button :)) though any USB peripheral (e.g. a guitar game controller) will work with Rhythm Zone. You can feel free to configure the key settings as you wish on USB peripherals, though we can't handle support inquiries on products made by third parties

On the visualizer backgrounds, we're definitely going our own route and not trying to recreate Guitar Hero. So with that, we have no plans to do a club scene. However post launch we will have many visualizers for sale as DLC, and we'll be posting a survey for anyone to request up and coming features and send us requests for new visualizers. As mentioned above we have no plans for a club scene, but if enough players request such a thing, well we'll definitely put that on the list.

What won't be DLC however, are supported file formats. So everyone can expect Rhythm Zone to launch with support for all major music formats, including iTunes files. The supported file types are:
• mp3
• m4a
• aac
• flac
• wav
• ogg
• wma

[Sonic Boom]

If anyone has any other questions, or just want to discuss all things Rhythm Zone, please check out the Official Rhythm Zone thread on the Steam Forums, located here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=16042906#post16042906

Thanks!

[Borlag]

Will there be a demo for this? Would like to see how the keyboard control works before deciding whether to get this for my kids or not.

[Oneironaut]

Will there be a demo on release or soon after? I hate buying games without a demo first.

[pingus]

another reason to play a real one. the enjoyment from it is...much bigger than what you get in a stupid game

Adding "velvet" in your nickname doesn't make you a good guitarist. It just makes you a human cliché.

kthxbai.

[velvetmeds]

such assumptions. i pity your angst

[Cedge]

Guitar Hero is available for the PC as well.
The game doesn't look that promising, it's just a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off.

Right, because there is only allowed to be one game per genre, and all similar games after that are "rip-offs."

I will say, though, in regards to this game: Rock Band called, they want their UI graphic design back.

[Dreadjaws]

I will say, though, in regards to this game: Rock Band called, they want their UI graphic design back.

The 90s called. They want their "X called, they want their Y back" joke back.

[velvetmeds]

TIME PARADOX

[SmanUK]

lol go get Frets On Fire, 100% free, all GH and RB songs and content can be downloaded and load more songs, themes and bit too

[CLIFFISFTW]

Hey everyone, thanks for all your interest! Let me answer some of your questions here.

A lot of you were curious about the price of Rhythm Zone, well to clarify that Rhythm Zone will normally be priced at $9.99. But for the first week of sale starting July 20th, were going to offer Rhythm Zone at 10% off!

For questions about Leaderboards, Rhythm Zone will have both Global and Friends boards. We utilize Last.fm's fingerprint technology to ensure the songs you analyze match up with your friends or any other Rhythm Zone player's songs. However, you can feel free to edit your songs label information, since the song is not identified by the label. The song is identified by the music itself.

As far as controllers go, Rhythm Zone is designed for keyboard use (with 4 button input and NO strum button :)) though any USB peripheral (e.g. a guitar game controller) will work with Rhythm Zone. You can feel free to configure the key settings as you wish on USB peripherals, though we can't handle support inquiries on products made by third parties

On the visualizer backgrounds, we're definitely going our own route and not trying to recreate Guitar Hero. So with that, we have no plans to do a club scene. However post launch we will have many visualizers for sale as DLC, and we'll be posting a survey for anyone to request up and coming features and send us requests for new visualizers. As mentioned above we have no plans for a club scene, but if enough players request such a thing, well we'll definitely put that on the list.

What won't be DLC however, are supported file formats. So everyone can expect Rhythm Zone to launch with support for all major music formats, including iTunes files. The supported file types are:
• mp3
• m4a
• aac
• flac
• wav
• ogg
• wma


So there's no strumming but you can use a third-party controller, So if I were to plug in my Rock band guitar, I would only hit the color keys and never even touch the strum key?

[Spathy]

lol go get Frets On Fire, 100% free, all GH and RB songs and content can be downloaded and load more songs, themes and bit too

+1

I'm not trying to be rude to the developer but I'm really trying to work out of the appeal of Rhythm Zone is when Frets on Fire is free and open source.

- It has a massive modding community
- Has a strum button
- Has 5 notes instead of 4
- Has leader boards
- Free themes and backgrounds.
- Is crossplatform on Windows/Mac/Linux

The only advantage Rhythm Zone has is that it plays any song you have.

[BurtonJ]

Rhythm Zone forum is now up. (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=926)

[iZach]

Hopefully it's good.

[slipperywhenwet]

What will the price be on this.
I cant find one anywhere.

[acare84]

What will the price be on this.
I cant find one anywhere.

A lot of you were curious about the price of Rhythm Zone, well to clarify that Rhythm Zone will normally be priced at $9.99. But for the first week of sale starting July 20th, were going to offer Rhythm Zone at 10% off!

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1356737&page=3

[mcilrain]

Why is everyone comparing it to GH, it seems to be much more like DDR or Stepmania.

[Alexc26]

Why is everyone comparing it to GH, it seems to be much more like DDR or Stepmania.

Because it is basically Guitar Hero, but you don't play guitar only, and it has only 4 keys.

[RenegadeShade]

Because it is basically Guitar Hero, but you don't play guitar only, and it has only 4 keys.

or you could just say "its like Stepmania....................."

[Benedict9999]

planning to buy it :)