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Frets on Fire

Frets on Fire

Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.

The gameplay of Frets on Fire is similar to Guitar Hero - the player emulates playing a guitar. Frets on Fire is meant to be played by picking up the keyboard like a guitar, with one hand pressing the fret buttons and another pressing the pick button. There is also support for joysticks.

Colored markers appear on the screen, synchronized with the song, and are played by holding the fret buttons of the correct color and pressing one of the pick buttons at the correct moment.

It has a built-in song editor that allows songs to be edited and created.

 Frets on Fire

License
GNU GPL

Developer
Sami Kyöstilä, Tommi Inkilä, Joonas Kerttula, Mikko Korkiakoski

Website
fretsonfire.sourceforge.net

Requirements
128 MB of RAM
A fairly fast OpenGL graphics card with decent drivers
SDL compatible sound card; SDL library installed

Support:
Frets on Fire Documentation, Frets on Fire WikiMailing List

Selected Reviews:
Linux.com, YouTube, blogspot, Inside Mac Games

Features include:

  • Unique inverted keyboard gameplay style
  • Hammer-on and pull-off notes
  • Support for guitar controllers and generic joysticks
  • Includes a song editor for making your own tunes
  • Compete with others on the World Charts
  • Hundreds of songs composed by the community
  • Tutorial

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Last Updated Monday, January 18 2010 @ 01:55 PM EST


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