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2017 Indie rhythm video game

2017 video game

Clone Hero

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

Clone Hero is a freeware music rhythm video game created by Ryan Foster, outset released on March 1, 2017. The game is a clone of the Guitar Hero franchise with nearly identical gameplay. The main depict of the game is its power to play community-made songs, which has resulted in a big fan customs around the game as well as a resurgence in popularity for the genre.

Gameplay [edit]

Screenshot of guitar gameplay, showcasing notes on the highway; the hitting window; song progression, star, and star ability meters; point, star, and philharmonic counters; and the combo multiplier.

Clone Hero, past design, features nearly identical gameplay to Guitar Hero. Specifically, the game is near like to afterwards entries in the series such as Earth Bout and Warriors of Rock, using GUI assets from those games.^[i] Gameplay involves hitting colored inputs on a guitar or drum-shaped controller to play along to songs, although in Clone Hero these inputs can be mapped to a keyboard or any other input device.^[two] Dissimilar the Guitar Hero series, by default at that place is no penalization for missing notes, bated from breaking a combo, making information technology impossible to neglect a song, although there is an option to enable this.

For guitar, players must hold specific buttons that line up with combinations of five colored notes that appear on the screen on a "highway"; when the notes hit the bottom of the highway, the histrion must strum to hit the notes in time with the music. Notes tin be atypical, or multiple at a time, forming a chord. Notes tin can also be sustains, in which the player must concur the matching button(s) subsequently strumming, the duration of the concord beingness indicated by a line following the note or chord. At that place is also an "open strum" note, represented with a purple bar, which requires the player to strum without pressing any other buttons. In addition to normal notes, there are "HOPO"s ("hammer-ons" and "pull-offs") and "tap notes", which both do non require the player to strum them to hit them, with the difference betwixt the two existence that a cord of HOPOs must begin with a strum, and the player must re-strum if they miss a note. Sure notes may as well be part of a "star power phrase", marked by a series of notes with star outlines. Successfully playing the marked section will advantage the player with star power, which tin be used to double the combo multiplier for a limited fourth dimension. For drums, gameplay is similar, involving ane less possible notation; players must hit a respective pulsate or cymbal when a note hits the bottom of the highway. There is also a bass drum note, represented by an orange bar, which unlike the guitar's open up strum tin can be combined with other notes. The game likewise contains a mode 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.

Clone Hero has the power to play community-made songs, called "charts".^[one] ^[3] However, unlike games in the Guitar Hero series, these songs practise not need to be original compositions, and can instead be any audio file a fellow member of the community wishes to turn into a playable chart. This allows for any song to be made playable in the game, merely too leads to many humorous and/or non-musical audio files being turned into charts,^[one] every bit well as the creation of many intentionally incommunicable charts.^[3] The freedom offered past the game'southward system has also spawned many charts that are created as cruel challenges to other players, far beyond the difficulty of anything in the standard Guitar Hero series.^[4] ^[five] ^[3] While Clone Hero includes the main iv difficulty modes seen in Guitar Hero, the vast majority of charts are designed for Expert mode.

Development [edit]

Clone Hero started as a small projection of Ryan Foster'southward in 2011,^[i] and then called GuitaRPG, built in the XNA engine and begetting simple, second graphics.^[6] Effectually 2015, the game's name was changed to Guitar Game to reflect its forking away from the RPG style, and had been upgraded with pseudo-3D graphics made with 2D graphics with warped perspective.^[7] The project was later moved to Unity, and received its final name alter to Clone Hero. Development connected until 2017, the game's first blastoff release.

Reception [edit]

Clone Hero fabricated an appearance at Awesome Games Done Quick 2020.^[5] ^[8]

References [edit]

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^ Winkie, Luke (July 24, 2018). "Run across the streamer making Guitar Hero cool once again, one insanely hard vocal at a time". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on April iii, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Bennett, Connor (Jan 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 eleven, 2015). "GuitaRPG - Guitar Hero". YouTube. Archived from the original on Feb 17, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
^ Foster, Ryan (July eighteen, 2015). "Guitar Game - Bleed it Out". YouTube. Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
^ Deschamps, Marc (Jan thirteen, 2020). "Undertale's Sans Appears in Wild AGDQ Video". Comicbook.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2020.