guohao13/rhythmmaster-1

Contributors:

Jon Bernal, Sammy Pulos, Andrew Chang

Santa Clara University
COEN 275 - Spring 2019

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RhythmMaster is a rhythm-based game where the player presses buttons in beat with the music. The game consists of 4 vertical rails, with each rail corresponding with the 1, 2, 3, 4 number keys. Each rail has markers that are spawned at the top of the rail that move down the rail towards the horizontal hit bar found near the bottom of the game screen.

The player should press the corresponding rail button once a marker touches the hitbar - this counts as a "hit". A “miss” occurs in 2 cases: either the player presses (for instance) rail button 3 but there is no marker touching the hit bar for rail 3, or the marker exits the hit bar and there is no button press for that rail. A “hit” will increase the player’s score by 10 points while a “miss” will decrease their score by 5.

Game “easiness” is implemented via a hit bar tolerance area found on both the top and bottom edges of the hit bar. The tolerance is user-settable in the Settings menu. A tolerance setting of 1.0 will add 50 pixels to both the top and bottom of the hit bar, widening the window used to determine hits and misses. For a tolerance setting of 0, hit detection only considers the coordinates of the hit bar in relation to any markers present.