A list of all Rhythm Maker updates, and plans for the major 2.0 update!

Major Update 2.0 Teaser!

If you have suggestions please leave some in the comments!!! all reviews are greatly appreciated <3

Definite Additions:

Touch screen and controller support

Start menu

Improved menu design

Game Mascot

New itch page thumbnail

Options to change key bindings

Options to remove rhythm game UI

Options to change the color of all game elements

A tutorial featuring an explanation on rhythm game setting methodology

Confirm button only appears when a note reaches the clicking area to help ensure players engage with the essential song settings

More satisfying feedback

And more to come

Potential Additions:

streamlined song search where you can find your files through typing

A system to make up for input lag

dynamic time between notes based on how much the song is changing at the moment

Option to have a custom image or video in your background which would be useful for song promotion

Option to increase or decrease the number of lanes on the stage from 1-10

An alternate download of the game which includes some songs which are already downloaded and have pre-defined difficulty options, which should lessen confusion for some players

Functionality with youtube links (i know this would be great but its complicated to do)

Sound effects (in menus, option to have sound effects on note clicks)

Ability to make the notes spawn only based on the instrumentals or lyrics (probably do this with some ai thing? id have to look into if that can be implemented in unity).

Dependent on me finding a volunteer (I’m really not into creating 3D visuals):

New and improved stage visuals

New and improved VFX

1.9:

Using mouse wheel on the file browser is faster now

Added a cover image to the .exe file

Optimization (greatly reduced unnecessary render distance)

(SCRAPPED CHANGES DUE TO MAJOR PERFORMANCE BUGS WITH UNITY 6 (the engine basically maxxed out the cpu and gpu on completely unnesacary tasks, for example culling and updating terrain, when there is not a terrain in the game)). sad, it averages 900fps on unity 2022 lol because it genuinely is a very optimised game, i hope this is fixed soon :(

Upgraded to Unity 6 which should bring further optimization and visual potential

Removed Unity splash screen

1.8: (CURRENT RELEASE)

Bug Fix (Note clickers did not light up as much in the built game as they did in the editor)

Optimization (Note feedback is now destroyed rather than inactivated)

1.7:

Note clickers now light up when pressed

Volume can now be turned to 0

1.6:

Added a volume slider

Optimization (Debug.Logs commented out)

1.5:

Bug Fix (Notes no longer continue to spawn when a song is over whilst the note sensitivity is on the highest level)

Optimization (notes now destroyed rather than inactivated)

1.4:

Bug fix (Audio settings would sometimes change mid song)

1.3:

Added support for all audio files supported by unity (.mp3, .ogg, .wav, .flac, .aif, .mod, .it, .s3m, .xm)

1.2:

Added new control option (ASJK)

1.1:

Bug fix (Final grade sometimes inaccurate)