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2017 Indie rhythm video game

2017 video game

Clone Hero

Developer(due south)	CH Team
Publisher(southward)	Srylain inc.
Designer(southward)	Ryan Foster
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux
Release	Alpha: March 1, 2017 WW: Nov 3, 2017
Genre(s)	Music, rhythm
Style(southward)	Single-player, Multi-actor

Clone Hero is a freeware music rhythm video game created past Ryan Foster, first released on March i, 2017. The game is a clone of the Guitar Hero franchise with well-nigh identical gameplay. The master describe of the game is its ability to play community-made songs, which has resulted in a big fan customs around the game besides every bit a resurgence in popularity for the genre.

Gameplay [edit]

Screenshot of guitar gameplay, showcasing notes on the highway; the hit window; song progression, star, and star power meters; bespeak, star, and combo counters; and the philharmonic multiplier.

Clone Hero, by blueprint, features nearly identical gameplay to Guitar Hero. Specifically, the game is most similar to later entries in the series such equally Globe Bout and Warriors of Rock, using GUI avails from those games.^[i] Gameplay involves hitting colored inputs on a guitar or drum-shaped controller to play forth to songs, although in Clone Hero these inputs can be mapped to a keyboard or whatever other input device.^[ii] Unlike the Guitar Hero series, by default in that location is no penalty for missing notes, aside from breaking a philharmonic, making information technology impossible to neglect a song, although there is an option to enable this.

For guitar, players must agree specific buttons that line upward with combinations of five colored notes that appear on the screen on a "highway"; when the notes striking the bottom of the highway, the player must strum to striking the notes in time with the music. Notes tin can be singular, or multiple at a time, forming a chord. Notes can also be sustains, in which the player must concur the matching button(s) later on strumming, the duration of the hold existence indicated past a line following the note or chord. There is also an "open strum" note, represented with a royal bar, which requires the player to strum without pressing any other buttons. In addition to normal notes, there are "HOPO"due south ("hammer-ons" and "pull-offs") and "tap notes", which both do not require the role player to strum them to hit them, with the difference betwixt the two being that a cord of HOPOs must brainstorm with a strum, and the player must re-strum if they miss a note. Sure notes may also be part of a "star power phrase", marked by a series of notes with star outlines. Successfully playing the marked section will reward the histrion with star ability, which tin be used to double the combo multiplier for a limited time. For drums, gameplay is similar, involving one less possible note; players must hitting a respective drum or cymbal when a note hits the bottom of the highway. At that place is also a bass drum notation, represented by an orange bar, which dissimilar the guitar'south open strum can exist combined with other notes. The game also contains a way which emulates the gameplay of Guitar Hero Live, which is notably different from other games in the series, involving half-dozen guitar buttons instead of the standard v.^[3]

Clone Hero has the ability to play community-made songs, called "charts".^[1] ^[iv] Nonetheless, unlike games in the Guitar Hero series, these songs exercise not need to be original compositions, and can instead be any audio file a member of the community wishes to turn into a playable chart. This allows for whatsoever song to be fabricated playable in the game, only too leads to many humorous and/or not-musical sound files existence turned into charts,^[1] besides as the cosmos of many intentionally impossible charts.^[4] The freedom offered by the game's arrangement has also spawned many charts that are created as brutal challenges to other players, far across the difficulty of annihilation in the standard Guitar Hero serial.^[5] ^[6] ^[four] While Clone Hero includes the main iv difficulty modes seen in Guitar Hero, the vast majority of charts are designed for Expert mode.

Evolution [edit]

Clone Hero started as a small-scale project of Ryan Foster's in 2011,^[ane] then chosen GuitaRPG, built in the XNA engine and bearing simple, 2D graphics.^[7] Effectually 2015, the game'due south name was inverse to Guitar Game to reflect its forking abroad from the RPG style, and had been upgraded with pseudo-3D graphics made with second graphics with warped perspective.^[8] The project was later moved to Unity, and received its final proper name change to Clone Hero. Evolution continued until 2017, the game's showtime alpha release.

Reception [edit]

Clone Hero fabricated an appearance at Awesome Games Washed Quick 2020.^[6] ^[9]

References [edit]

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^ ^a ^b Bennett, Connor (January 13, 2020). "Insane Guitar Hero performance goes viral after jaw-dropping "speedrun"". Dexerto. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
^ Foster, Ryan (April xi, 2015). "GuitaRPG - Guitar Hero". YouTube. Archived from the original on February 17, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
^ Foster, Ryan (July xviii, 2015). "Guitar Game - Bleed it Out". YouTube. Archived from the original on June eight, 2020. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
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