Topic: Frets on Fire...

[sam]

... who says open source doesn't mean wicked games!

Personally I'm a huge guitar hero fan... well acutally my whole house has gotten very into it (I have a Wii in the front room!). Anyway.. want that open source alternative, and not just a s**te one, try Frets on Fire. Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. It is an open-source clone of the wildly-popular Guitar Hero game. It supports importing Guitar Hero I and Guitar Hero II songs as well as hundreds of songs composed by the community.

Oh it works on windows aswell as linux.

fretsonfire.sourceforge.net

Here is a video to take a look at (from the older version, the newer versions have better graphics, but its all about the gameplay):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5i6SxSAY4Q&feature=related

[Simon]

Not sure I get the videos.  Is that what someone has created visually, or was it made from the actual playing?  I like the idea of a Wii guitar hero! 

[Sandra]

As a recently born again trainee guitarist I find this type of thing diabolical.
How am I going to become rich and famous as an amazing rock chick guitarist if any kid can play stuff like this on his pc 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3BERgbdfyE&feature=related

[Simon]

I've heard this band are looking for a new guitarist, San, to replace the one in the middle, who's gone into a home.   

[Sandra]

By the time I have learned to play it as well as I am hoping to be able to then I will probably be so old that I will need to be in a home myself 

[sam]

Not sure I get the videos.  Is that what someone has created visually, or was it made from the actual playing?  I like the idea of a Wii guitar hero! 

that's the game!! :-D your play the notes when they come up... its a bit like those dancing games but with a keyboard... for the Wii I have  "guitar"..



not as much fun as a real one but still great when you have people round and a few beers, I'm going to connect this up to my linux machine later... I hope.

[GillE]

How does that work, Sam?  There are eight notes in an octave (twelve if you include semi-tones) but your guitar only has five positions.

[Simon]

He only intends to play Status Quo, Gill. 

[sam]

it doesn't actually work like a real guitar  you press the right buttons that appear on the screen.... on the hard levels you play a note at the same time as a guitarist but its not the right note, it will never make you an actual guitarist but its all good fun 

[Simon]

I'd rather have a real guitar!   

[sam]

oh you old people 

[GillE]

It seems rather like my accordian which I play in the style of Eric Morcambe - all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order.

[Simon]

  Rather like my guitar playing.