I thought a nice chance of pace would be in order after yesterdays epic role playing game, Realms of Arkania. Today you get to be involved in the music business, either by being a whiz guitarist or a cool disco DJ.……..
The second game is still a work in progress and the download is really just to showcase the game. If you think you’ll like it, it will be worthwhile book marking the site so that you can check back to see if and when it’s completed.
I thought it would be nice to post these two together as they seem complementary. They are ‘Frets on Fire’ and ‘That Disco Thing’. The former downloads as an installable executable, whereas That Disco Thing has no installer yet, so you will have to unzip the file to a new folder then place that were you want it to go (don’t forget to name the folder), then create a short cut from the unpacked game exe (which is an orange and blue icon):
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Frets on Fire:
Ready to make your rock star dreams come true?
But you say you don't even have a band or even any musical talent? On top of that, all you have is a computer and a keyboard? Well then, fret not! Because Frets on Fire just might be the perfect freeware game for you.
In the vein of Guitar Hero, Frets on Fire will challenge your musical skill and help you develop some fast fingers as you rock along to some kickin' tunes. Played entirely with a keyboard, you'll be on fire in no time, with the ability to add more songs down the road from the entire Guitar Hero catalog, or from the growing list of songs (hundreds) made especially for Frets on Fire.
Download this cool freeware game today and unleash the fret master in you!Official Features:
• Unique inverted keyboard game play style
• Support for guitar controllers and generic joysticks
• Includes a song editor for making your own tunes
• Compete with others on the World Charts
• Hundreds of songs composed by the community
• Supports importing Guitar Hero I and Guitar Hero II songs
• Multiplatform; runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD
• Open source, full Python source code available
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Download Link:
http://www.download-free-games.com/freeware_games/frets_fire.htm
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http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/
Images:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&q=frets+on+fire+&btnG=Search+Images
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Videos:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs-2p7x6YA4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zYiKAIe6Srg
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2yhn_TDc1zk&feature=related
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Reviews of Frets on Fire:
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2006/10/frets_on_fire.php
http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/fretsonfire/player_review.html?id=593234
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That Disco Thing (4.02MB)
There are no reviews, screen captures, or videos, nor any information about this game as yet. Though I think it’s actually a tester for a 3D engine called Blender rather than a game. It’s really just a showcase for a future release, but, as I said in the introduction, I thought it would complement today’s main game. The graphics are pretty good so I’ll be keeping my eye open for future developments.
If you’re not interested in it, do check out the page though because there’s another game (plus some other stuff to mess around with) that looks interesting called FrontierCity which is just over 4Mb in size. You’ll also find that space invaders game I posted details of during the first week of this project.
I’ll have a great 3D puzzle game tomorrow that Idahl originally posted in these forums 8 months ago, which has got buried amongst the hundreds of other posts in the games discussion forums. It’s actually hidden within an unrelated post, so I thought it worth adding to the weekday games project.
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