Touhou is a shooting/fighting game for Christ Sake. Read the first post.My1 wrote: 4i3s2g
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I was thinking instead of just having bullets, you could have to dodge bars too instead of just bullets. and by bars, i mean bars that fly vertically and horizontally. Or maybe even shapes like triangles and squares. It would be interesting to see more things go across the screen than just bullets. Or some lasers.
It has already been mentioned before in the topic that lasers = sliders. And IMO bars are a stupid idea.Kitokofox wrote: 3l4i3d
I was thinking instead of just having bullets, you could have to dodge bars too instead of just bullets. and by bars, i mean bars that fly vertically and horizontally. Or maybe even shapes like triangles and squares. It would be interesting to see more things go across the screen than just bullets. Or some lasers.
Also since this post has been bumped and I've thought of this for a looooong time, is it okay if we rename this mode to "Danmakosu!" instead? Calling it "Touhosu!" sounds like literally a ripoff from the Touhou series only while there are other bullet-hell games that can be referred to as well, and Danmakosu! defines that better. that it's to reference the genre of bullet-hell than just from a single danmaku shooter series.
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lmfaoSaten wrote: 5e2b6d
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Okay, maybe not. But at least call this mode something better than using "Touhou" in the name since it's generically a bullet-hell mode and not just from Touhou.Saten wrote: 5e2b6d
It's like renaming taiko to donsu or something
Perhaps it wont be non of them. Maybe just "Touhou" mode
Taiko mode/Taikosu! is an exception though because... it's Taiko.
Oh yeah, a Touhosu mode would be awesome! I could be at least less shity than in Osu/Taiko 
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Touhou is everywhere in the beatmaps and in the community, so I don't think it's a problem to name this (prospective) mode with a Touhou name.
I think "Touhosu" is a funny namePROGUY wrote: w6x73
Also since this post has been bumped and I've thought of this for a looooong time, is it okay if we rename this mode to "Danmakosu!" instead? Calling it "Touhosu!" sounds like literally a ripoff from the Touhou series only while there are other bullet-hell games that can be referred to as well, and Danmakosu! defines that better. that it's to reference the genre of bullet-hell than just from a single danmaku shooter series.
.Touhou is everywhere in the beatmaps and in the community, so I don't think it's a problem to name this (prospective) mode with a Touhou name.
i've only read half of that but, instead of putting something like this in osu!, just go play touhou or something. its wasting time putting a mode in osu! that's JUST like touhou when you can just go play the original game. yes, i know standard and taiko is also from a game, but touhou is free and something that everybody can just go and . i don't see the point of putting it in osu!
i have seen a game with such rhythm and bullet style, so it should be possible in osu as well, woc233 plz add this
just eggpain
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who said i didn't like it? please, don't put words in my mouth. all i did was say that something that was already made into a game shouldn't really be made into an osu! mode. it's just my opinion, sheesh.deadbeat wrote: 819
....wowRinKagamine wrote: 2m1v54
but touhou is free and something that everybody can just go and .
anyway. peppy's all ready shown interest in adding this. you don't have to play if you don't like it
ctb is also considered as an interpretation of Ez2catch but I recently discovered that the idea comes first from an hidden play mod in the BMS player Rythm it. It's the same as ctb but for two players.
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Pretty nice example on how to implement it.[CSGA]Ar3sgice wrote: 5a44y
i have seen a game with such rhythm and bullet style, so it should be possible in osu as well, woc233 plz add this
just eggpain
lol beaten the entire game in 45 minutes :p[CSGA]Ar3sgice wrote: 5a44y
i have seen a game with such rhythm and bullet style, so it should be possible in osu as well, woc233 plz add this
i don't even know why i fucking bother posting in forums. i give my honest opinion how i feel about this and i get criticism just because i don't think it's a good idea. the whole point of this is for people to give on what they think, not for you to go and insult/criticise people for their opinion. i thought touhou was something that was free to for people, because when i searched it up there was always places to it so i thought it was just a free little game you on your computer. no need to give me rude replies =_=
just do it ^^
I think it is clear that the community really want this
peppy already said that he has some ideas
I'm afraid it won't really happen anytime soon
would be bad to lock that for people who want to show some concepts (not sure if that is necessary but who knows ...)
but like you said there is mostly nothing constructive other than +
I think it is clear that the community really want this
peppy already said that he has some ideas
I'm afraid it won't really happen anytime soon
would be bad to lock that for people who want to show some concepts (not sure if that is necessary but who knows ...)
but like you said there is mostly nothing constructive other than +
There are rhythm games and rhythm-based games. osu!, Taiko and osu!mania are the first ones and CtB and Touhosu are second.Zarerion wrote: 54f6m
Please, just make sure this game mode will have something to do with Rhythm, unlike other gamemodes where stuff is coming from above and you have to catch it.
When there's a beat, u should in some way click according to that beat.
So Touhosu will be like CtB? :/[Dellirium] wrote: 1x621p
There are rhythm games and rhythm-based games. osu!, Taiko and osu!mania are the first ones and CtB and Touhosu are second.Zarerion wrote: 54f6m
Please, just make sure this game mode will have something to do with Rhythm, unlike other gamemodes where stuff is coming from above and you have to catch it.
When there's a beat, u should in some way click according to that beat.
Touhosu isn't defined yet. It's likely to be largely just a music game, but not a rhythm one... which is what CtB is. But as the peppy quote above says... getting rhythm involved in the gameplay (beyond the part where it's part of the music) is what would be preferred. How to do that is the big question. If there was a strong answer to it, then I think that development on Touhosu would start happening in earnest.
Seph
Uhh actually CtB is based off EZ2Catch which is a RHYTHM game. Also CtB follows the beat that a standard map is following, the only difference is you have to catch it in that game mode and not click circles and move your mouse.Zarerion wrote: 54f6m
Please, just make sure this game mode will have something to do with Rhythm, unlike other gamemodes where stuff is coming from above and you have to catch it.
When there's a beat, u should in some way click according to that beat.
Whats with all the hate on the game mode? Seriously, osu! is full of rhythm games, I mean why would peppy create CtB if it never followed or plan to follow any rhythm at all?
The best implementation would be to move in rythm to avoid bullets. Else it would be an audiosurf like (in much harder I hope).
@Seph : The idea of CtB doesn't come from Ez2catch. PM me for more info. But I agree CtB requires rythm (sometimes more than std and sometimes not, this is mainly due to std map adaptation).
@Seph : The idea of CtB doesn't come from Ez2catch. PM me for more info. But I agree CtB requires rythm (sometimes more than std and sometimes not, this is mainly due to std map adaptation).
I dunno if it's been said or implied already, but an idea for HP is that it can be similar to the way the HP bar works in osumania. You start out with a full bar and when you get hit, it takes out, say, a quarter of the bar. But every time you graze a bullet, the bar is restored slightly. It would be restored less the higher the song's HP drain is. This would be different from having a set number of, say, 5 lives for example.
And if this had been said already just ignore me.
I've never played any Touhou games either but I've got all 3 eXceed games so I'm a veteran in the bullet hell genreKiosk14 wrote: 21831
Sounds interesting. ive actually never played TOHOU b4, so this could be my chance
eXceed - Gun Bullet Children by FLAT
eXceed - 2nd Vampire REX (Remake by Tennen-sozai)
eXceed - 3rd Jade Penetrate Black Package (Extended version by Tennen-sozai)
Not exactly Touhou but you know what I mean
To the eXceed fans: Sorry, only original I have is the first one
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I saw a video and I think that was how touhosu could work
see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nQXsmlU3Ps
see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nQXsmlU3Ps
I don't know if this can help but I think it gives a good idea on how to do it.peppy wrote: 6w4l42
Just to clear things up, I generally have an idea of how this will be implemented already in my head (when/if it is) and may or may not consider any suggestions. For this reason I won't actively participate in this discussion but will monitor it. Keep in mind that I have played touhou and other danmaku games, so suggesting things already done in those is a bit moot. Try and thing of original aspects which will bring rhythm and bullets together in an awesome way if you are looking to positively contribute.
http://youtu.be/KnoUG4RwjSk
Need to have more bullets to avoid than enemies to shoot downIgor-Sonic wrote: 5k2f16
I don't know if this can help but I think it gives a good idea on how to do it.
http://youtu.be/KnoUG4RwjSk
Danmaku is the word.
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I was too lazy to record/ video earlier
Ultra difficulty (on "view" mode)
Link for anyone interested
http://www.utgsoftware.net/games/newcur ... /index.htm
TouhouNerd
I don't know if anyone said this before. 10 pages is a lot to read. If these points are duplicate, just consider this to the original.
1. Touhou danmaku thrive by having good and meaningful patterns. So, it would be good to separate the standard mode from touhosu. That means, no generation from standard to touhosu.
2. In-game editor may be too much to handle. Every bullet have to be placed manually? Hardly possible. In-game editor provides some basic patterns? That would take away the beauty of variety of danmaku. So, I am thinking of using scripts. For general idea, something like these:
a. danmakufu-like script (those videos on the first 2 pages are from danmakufu, and they have their own script to generate patterns.)
b. Javascript interpreter and a library to it. (Like what Adobe does with ExtendScript)
c. Lua interpreter and a library.
d. Any other programming/scripting language that is appropriate. (aka you get the point)
3. As most Touhou original songs (i.e. with artist ZUN) are already ranked, I think when submitting, we should be able to "add difficulty to existing map". I know this requires changes to be made in the database, but hey, it isn't that bad. :/
Well, apart from the suggestions, here is my opinion. I AM A TOUHOUNERD. (just saying)
1. If there were a Touhosu! mode, I can foresee myself going crazy making danmaku. So "no one's gonna make it" is invalid argument.
2. Touhosu! will be even more "irrelevant" to the rhythm game genre (e.g. when compared to CTB). If there were Touhosu, soon there will be osu!craft where you fight zombies and mine according to music(i.e. not rhythm game anymore), and finally My Little Posu!ny, where MLP episodes will be made into MAD according to music(i.e. not game anymore). I the idea of Touhosu!, but still, this is something to consider.
3. Even more people with crazy skill will pop up from nowhere. (we have Cookiezi for standard, Remilia-Scarlet for mania, not sure about CTB and taiko, never checked)
4. Touhou with DT/HD/FL will be fun!
1. Touhou danmaku thrive by having good and meaningful patterns. So, it would be good to separate the standard mode from touhosu. That means, no generation from standard to touhosu.
2. In-game editor may be too much to handle. Every bullet have to be placed manually? Hardly possible. In-game editor provides some basic patterns? That would take away the beauty of variety of danmaku. So, I am thinking of using scripts. For general idea, something like these:
a. danmakufu-like script (those videos on the first 2 pages are from danmakufu, and they have their own script to generate patterns.)
b. Javascript interpreter and a library to it. (Like what Adobe does with ExtendScript)
c. Lua interpreter and a library.
d. Any other programming/scripting language that is appropriate. (aka you get the point)
3. As most Touhou original songs (i.e. with artist ZUN) are already ranked, I think when submitting, we should be able to "add difficulty to existing map". I know this requires changes to be made in the database, but hey, it isn't that bad. :/
Well, apart from the suggestions, here is my opinion. I AM A TOUHOUNERD. (just saying)
1. If there were a Touhosu! mode, I can foresee myself going crazy making danmaku. So "no one's gonna make it" is invalid argument.
2. Touhosu! will be even more "irrelevant" to the rhythm game genre (e.g. when compared to CTB). If there were Touhosu, soon there will be osu!craft where you fight zombies and mine according to music(i.e. not rhythm game anymore), and finally My Little Posu!ny, where MLP episodes will be made into MAD according to music(i.e. not game anymore). I the idea of Touhosu!, but still, this is something to consider.
3. Even more people with crazy skill will pop up from nowhere. (we have Cookiezi for standard, Remilia-Scarlet for mania, not sure about CTB and taiko, never checked)
4. Touhou with DT/HD/FL will be fun!
This is a video from another forum, very inspiring. If there's ways to script it so that the player has to move to match the beat (like 3:04) it'd be awesome.
0:55 also a nice idea for mania skin.
0:55 also a nice idea for mania skin.
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Oinari-sama wrote: cv50
A touhou-version of Rhythm Tengoku, nice!
The style in 2:25 seems like a good concept for touhosu!
Yeah, this is actually a really good place to start. Instead of a classic touhou style where the bullets spawn to the beat, have it so the player must move to the beats. We could have different patterns for different movements, and if you let go of a key you go back to neutral position. This makes hold notes, normal beats, and possibly some other stuff possible. Let me vent some ideas out.
The source of bullets will be a circular entity. It will pulse to the beat, making a translucent circle that expands towards the player (probably at the designated approach rate from osu!standard maps). This would be like the barline on taiko or osu!mania. Any and all hit objects will be placed on these circles. If a hitobject is placed off of a beat, (eighth/sixteenth notes), a fainter circle will be put there to indicate that there is a hitobject there.
Player loses health when they get hit by a bullet, and they gain health when they successfully dodge one. Sudden Death will make one hit = kill, and the damage is calculated by the health drain difficulty setting.
The player has 3 main positions. Neutral, Left, and Right. Pressing a key down will make the character move in that direction, and letting a key go will put you back in neutral.
When you dodge a bullet, you get a "graze" bonus based on your timing.
Here are the potential differences in hitobjects.
Normal Beat: Moving from neutral position to one of two sides, to avoid a single bullet headed straight for you. You get extra points if you input the dodge at the right time. Holding the directional key to avoid multiple bullets will cause every other bullet to be scored as a 50 instead of a 300, and the player's health would not increase for it.
Specific Beat: Requires you to move to one side, dependant on which side has a free spot. Bullets spawned by this hitobject are placed in the neutral position AND in one of the two directions you can dodge in, limiting you to only one of the two sides. The secondary bullet would be highlighted in some way, probably by being a bit bigger or brighter. This could probably be mapped to one of the hitsounds, or certain movement patterns in osu.
Hold Notes: The laser. The entity starts glowing or shining (as if it was charging), then it makes a thin line that goes over the neutral position a few beats before it arrives. You can through it as it has not arrived yet. Expands to a bigger line once it arrives. Requires the player to hold the left or right button until it is done. Multiple lasers can be read by looking at the charge animation. Counting how many of them happen and when they happen should give you a good sense on when they appear. This can be combined with specific beats, with multiple thin lines hinting on which sides to avoid.
Don't know what to do for spinners. We could make them press the up arrow to the beat or something to do a little taunt or dance, but I'm not sure.
This should be good enough for now. If you can't visualize it, I'll draw (MS Paint or lazy photoshop) a draft of the circle thing. Just visualize the osu! logo on the title screen, where the circles it pulses out to the beat have little circles stuck to them. Now imagine dodging them like in the video.
The source of bullets will be a circular entity. It will pulse to the beat, making a translucent circle that expands towards the player (probably at the designated approach rate from osu!standard maps). This would be like the barline on taiko or osu!mania. Any and all hit objects will be placed on these circles. If a hitobject is placed off of a beat, (eighth/sixteenth notes), a fainter circle will be put there to indicate that there is a hitobject there.
Player loses health when they get hit by a bullet, and they gain health when they successfully dodge one. Sudden Death will make one hit = kill, and the damage is calculated by the health drain difficulty setting.
The player has 3 main positions. Neutral, Left, and Right. Pressing a key down will make the character move in that direction, and letting a key go will put you back in neutral.
When you dodge a bullet, you get a "graze" bonus based on your timing.
Here are the potential differences in hitobjects.
Normal Beat: Moving from neutral position to one of two sides, to avoid a single bullet headed straight for you. You get extra points if you input the dodge at the right time. Holding the directional key to avoid multiple bullets will cause every other bullet to be scored as a 50 instead of a 300, and the player's health would not increase for it.
Specific Beat: Requires you to move to one side, dependant on which side has a free spot. Bullets spawned by this hitobject are placed in the neutral position AND in one of the two directions you can dodge in, limiting you to only one of the two sides. The secondary bullet would be highlighted in some way, probably by being a bit bigger or brighter. This could probably be mapped to one of the hitsounds, or certain movement patterns in osu.
Hold Notes: The laser. The entity starts glowing or shining (as if it was charging), then it makes a thin line that goes over the neutral position a few beats before it arrives. You can through it as it has not arrived yet. Expands to a bigger line once it arrives. Requires the player to hold the left or right button until it is done. Multiple lasers can be read by looking at the charge animation. Counting how many of them happen and when they happen should give you a good sense on when they appear. This can be combined with specific beats, with multiple thin lines hinting on which sides to avoid.
Don't know what to do for spinners. We could make them press the up arrow to the beat or something to do a little taunt or dance, but I'm not sure.
This should be good enough for now. If you can't visualize it, I'll draw (MS Paint or lazy photoshop) a draft of the circle thing. Just visualize the osu! logo on the title screen, where the circles it pulses out to the beat have little circles stuck to them. Now imagine dodging them like in the video.
I agree with the limiting of the movements, but limiting it to only 3 positions is too much, mainly because if you think about danmaku, you think about few spots on screen which are "safe" to be avoiding them, principally at the highest difficulty levels.Mithost wrote: 346313
Yeah, this is actually a really good place to start. Instead of a classic touhou style where the bullets spawn to the beat, have it so the player must move to the beats. We could have different patterns for different movements, and if you let go of a key you go back to neutral position. This makes hold notes, normal beats, and possibly some other stuff possible. Let me vent some ideas out.
The source of bullets will be a circular entity. It will pulse to the beat, making a translucent circle that expands towards the player (probably at the designated approach rate from osu!standard maps). This would be like the barline on taiko or osu!mania. Any and all hit objects will be placed on these circles. If a hitobject is placed off of a beat, (eighth/sixteenth notes), a fainter circle will be put there to indicate that there is a hitobject there.
Player loses health when they get hit by a bullet, and they gain health when they successfully dodge one. Sudden Death will make one hit = kill, and the damage is calculated by the health drain difficulty setting.
The player has 3 main positions. Neutral, Left, and Right. Pressing a key down will make the character move in that direction, and letting a key go will put you back in neutral.
When you dodge a bullet, you get a "graze" bonus based on your timing.
Here are the potential differences in hitobjects.
Normal Beat: Moving from neutral position to one of two sides, to avoid a single bullet headed straight for you. You get extra points if you input the dodge at the right time. Holding the directional key to avoid multiple bullets will cause every other bullet to be scored as a 50 instead of a 300, and the player's health would not increase for it.
Specific Beat: Requires you to move to one side, dependant on which side has a free spot. Bullets spawned by this hitobject are placed in the neutral position AND in one of the two directions you can dodge in, limiting you to only one of the two sides. The secondary bullet would be highlighted in some way, probably by being a bit bigger or brighter. This could probably be mapped to one of the hitsounds, or certain movement patterns in osu.
Hold Notes: The laser. The entity starts glowing or shining (as if it was charging), then it makes a thin line that goes over the neutral position a few beats before it arrives. You can through it as it has not arrived yet. Expands to a bigger line once it arrives. Requires the player to hold the left or right button until it is done. Multiple lasers can be read by looking at the charge animation. Counting how many of them happen and when they happen should give you a good sense on when they appear. This can be combined with specific beats, with multiple thin lines hinting on which sides to avoid.
Don't know what to do for spinners. We could make them press the up arrow to the beat or something to do a little taunt or dance, but I'm not sure.
This should be good enough for now. If you can't visualize it, I'll draw (MS Paint or lazy photoshop) a draft of the circle thing. Just visualize the osu! logo on the title screen, where the circles it pulses out to the beat have little circles stuck to them. Now imagine dodging them like in the video.
Being able to free move at least for left/right (like in ctb) you could move to more dangerous spots and get more graze score; there would be a great variety of scores.
Also your "circular entity" could have infinites life bars (for it to last until the end of the song) so you could always earn extra points by killing it, the more you shoot it, the more score you get. It could also drop few 点 item at random position on screen when you finish with one of its lifebar, as well as removing all of the enemy's bullets when this happens, earning good amount of point for each bullet onscreen, just like in Touhou.
Though implementation of 300, 100, 50, etc would be hard in this case, unless counting 300 as each of your shots that hit the "circular entity", 100 as bullets grazed, and counting point items '点' instead of 50.
Of course there should be the "misses" which happen each time you get hit, but what about having "lives" earned each X points?
Missing should imply score penalty; it could be instant penalty or calculated at the final score, depending on the amount of lost lives.
Losing all of them would result in a fail.
Could work this way:
Hit by bullet → miss sound + score penalty → player respawn while bullets onscreen are cleared with no score bonus → continue as if nothing has happened.
We should not forget about the life-saving BOMBS, which the player could have 2 each life.
Bombing would clear bullets on screen and remove current boss' life bar bonus. (Yes, penalties for bombing as well)
There could be a 5ms time before actually dying in which one could bomb (consuming 2 bombs) to prevent from losing a life and giving some score for bullets onscreen. (Still removing the boss' lifebar bonus)
Life penalty would be greater than bomb penalty.
Now the objects:
Circle: Would be a simple multi-direction shoot, with pattern and kind of bullets based on the hitsound, OD and CS.
Sliders: Multiple 1/4 or 1/8 based bullets shoot directly at the player as it moves with other circle-like bullets being shoot at slider ticks with heavier waves on the slider Start and End.
Repeating Sliders: A non straight slider bullet wave, spread by the lengh of the slider.
As for spinners: a HEAVY amount of bullet for you to graze. (from simple to complex patterns, depending on OD)
HP drain = Amount of lives, the higher the less. Drain 10 = 0 Lives (Still earns lives by score)
Circle Size = Average AMOUNT of bullets. (Bullets should have fixed size and be greater in amount rather than sizes)
Approach Rate = Average Speed of bullets (combined with slider velocity could have greater variety)
OD = Overall difficulty. The higher, the more bulles, heavier spinners, more score. Could also define amount of bombs per life. OD 10 = 0 Bombs
The boss-like thing can move left/right as well.
And to finish, give the player a small hitbox with possibility of focusing.
Example:
(Alternatively "Boss Kill" count could be just a number on the left of its lifebar)
Of course this is all suggestion, its not me that will be the one to code if such game mode gets to be implemented.
Edit: Forgot to mention, bonuses for each life/bomb remaining go to the final score.
These are two different options. One has the bullets spawning to the beat, and the other has the player dodging to the beat. My idea that I posted above was an attempt to make a rhythm game based on a danmaku game, not a danmaku game based off of a rhythm game. Sure this limits some stuff, but in my opinion, a danmaku game probably wont translate over perfectly if we leave everything intact.
On the topic of grazing, risky movements, and safezones, that is what we would be emulating with the different patterns. I could see someone being forced to move to the right and while they are there, a laser will start charging on their spot, making it a narrow escape.
Shooting something for points is something I REALLY want to avoid here. Why? You get more points for standing still, than you do for moving along to the song. Osu! is a Rhythm game, and we need to this. Making score based on dodging to the beat and actually reading rhythmic patterns seems like a better, more simple system for a rhythm game.
Another thing is the issue on balance. With your system, the danmaku part of the game will turn the music part of the game into background music from what I see. Players don't need to pay attention to the music (they might even be better off without it), and timing of pretty much everything is not even considered.
I agree though that we CAN give the players a bonus if they stay un-hit long enough (high enough combo) and get a bonus by beating a life off of the boss.
tl;dr: Bullets spawning to the beat like fireworks does not make a good RHYTHM BASED game (A rhythm game being a game that rewards good timing based on reacting visual and audio cues). It would make a really cool game, but not a very good game-mode for osu.
On the topic of grazing, risky movements, and safezones, that is what we would be emulating with the different patterns. I could see someone being forced to move to the right and while they are there, a laser will start charging on their spot, making it a narrow escape.
Shooting something for points is something I REALLY want to avoid here. Why? You get more points for standing still, than you do for moving along to the song. Osu! is a Rhythm game, and we need to this. Making score based on dodging to the beat and actually reading rhythmic patterns seems like a better, more simple system for a rhythm game.
Another thing is the issue on balance. With your system, the danmaku part of the game will turn the music part of the game into background music from what I see. Players don't need to pay attention to the music (they might even be better off without it), and timing of pretty much everything is not even considered.
I agree though that we CAN give the players a bonus if they stay un-hit long enough (high enough combo) and get a bonus by beating a life off of the boss.
tl;dr: Bullets spawning to the beat like fireworks does not make a good RHYTHM BASED game (A rhythm game being a game that rewards good timing based on reacting visual and audio cues). It would make a really cool game, but not a very good game-mode for osu.
Seems like interesting wall of text. I'll read the entire post tomorrow after a good sleep.Mithost wrote: 346313
Don't know what to do for spinners. We could make them press the up arrow to the beat or something to do a little taunt or dance, but I'm not sure.
For time being, here's a quick take on possible spinner adaptation. I'll use my favourite Ran as example.
Fast farward to roughly 5:00. The prep for spinning laser starts, firing moments later. The character is forced to move with it. The guy in the video got pwned for not moving with it =.=
To do something similar in osu, the mapper can use different geometrical arrangements while always leaving safe spots at various distances from centre of rotation. From the scoring point of view, obviously the "spin rate" is controlled by the boss, not the player (ie constant angular velocity). However the player can choose to do easier spins by staying closer to the centre of rotation (ie lower linear velocity), or move in a safe spot further away from the centre of rotation to get score bonus (higher linear velocity, more distance to cover per rotation).
If that sounds confusing, just look at the video. If a player stays closer to the centre of the rotation, he/she can move rather "slowly" compared to someone who stays on the rim of the spinning laser (if we focus on only the laser and ignore all other bullets temporarily). Obviously it's harder to control when you have to move faster so the player should get score bonus for it. Of course, the mapper will have to balance the danmaku so that the "safe spot" during spinning laser should be the same size no matter how far it's placed from centre of rotation to justify for the bonus given.
Here is the original Remilia mini-game (Just FYI):
(The game consist of 10-ish mini-games then a remix, just like rhythm tengolku)
that there is only 2 buttons active in that game. One for "hit-circle" and one for "slider".
I think your idea would work well, but to me it sound like taking away the fun. It sounds like to make a touhou-themed rhythm game rather than to make a rhythm game based on a danmaku game. I think the danmaku is mostly what we are looking for here. And as I said earlier, there is not really a way to generate danmaku.
(The game consist of 10-ish mini-games then a remix, just like rhythm tengolku)
that there is only 2 buttons active in that game. One for "hit-circle" and one for "slider".
Spinners are ignored in mania too.Mithost wrote: 346313
It's a cool pattern, but I don't think it would match well with 1) How spinners usually fit in songs 2) My idea on how the game would work and 3) How spinners work score wise in osu!standard
Some FYI information: In rhythm tengoku, it's basic that you MUST match the beat, so sometimes it's easier to listen to the cue rather than looking. That's what they did in rhythm carnival scarlet too. Everything has a cue(mostly). BTW the remilia beat game, it only takes 2 keys, one for normal beat and one for hold.Mithost wrote: 346313
......The source of bullets will be a circular entity. It will pulse to the beat, making a translucent circle that expands towards the player (probably at the designated approach rate from osu!standard maps). This would be like the barline on taiko or osu!mania. Any and all hit objects will be placed on these circles. If a hitobject is placed off of a beat, (eighth/sixteenth notes), a fainter circle will be put there to indicate that there is a hitobject there......
I think your idea would work well, but to me it sound like taking away the fun. It sounds like to make a touhou-themed rhythm game rather than to make a rhythm game based on a danmaku game. I think the danmaku is mostly what we are looking for here. And as I said earlier, there is not really a way to generate danmaku.
Each person should feel free to propose their ideas, cause I think peppy will do things his way at the end of the day so there's no need for us to "finalise" our discussions. Our discussions here only serves as peppy's inspiration so feel free to organise your ideas and post them here.
So here's my take on how Touhosu can be implemented. It's going to be a long post so I'll try to use as many pictures as possible to make it easier to read. Bear with me
NOTE: This post is unfinished.
I saw the video Sakuya ed when I was half way through putting my ideas together. The game mechanism shown in that video is very clean and simple and it made me wonder if the stuff I'm proposing here is too complicated to code. I guess I'll leave this post as is unless people think it's worth digging deeper.
So here's my take on how Touhosu can be implemented. It's going to be a long post so I'll try to use as many pictures as possible to make it easier to read. Bear with me
Basic Gameplay Concept
BASIC GAMEPLAY CONCEPT
Similar to TH9.5 "Shoot the Bullet," the player will not be firing any of her danmaku at the boss. The focus of the game will be dodging bullets and get high scores. Yes, that means NO BOMBS.
Health/HP Bar
Player starts with full health. There is a constant HP drain as soon as the map section starts, ie if a player sits there and do nothing he/she will die (fail).
Each hit objects (explained later) cleared will give the player some health back. To a map the player must constantly clear hit objects throughout the map.
Another way to lose HP is to get hit by the bullet. A "hit" is only ed when the "hit box" touches a bullet (refer to the picture below).
Hit Objects
The basic building block in this idea is an invisible string connecting 2 adjacent bullets together.
A Hit Object is cleared when the player es through the gap between 2 bullets (break the string). Once cleared, a hit object cannot be activated again.
Player Control
Similar to TH9.5 "Shoot the Bullet," the player will not be firing any of her danmaku at the boss. The focus of the game will be dodging bullets and get high scores. Yes, that means NO BOMBS.
Health/HP Bar
Player starts with full health. There is a constant HP drain as soon as the map section starts, ie if a player sits there and do nothing he/she will die (fail).
Each hit objects (explained later) cleared will give the player some health back. To a map the player must constantly clear hit objects throughout the map.
Another way to lose HP is to get hit by the bullet. A "hit" is only ed when the "hit box" touches a bullet (refer to the picture below).
Hit Objects
The basic building block in this idea is an invisible string connecting 2 adjacent bullets together.
A Hit Object is cleared when the player es through the gap between 2 bullets (break the string). Once cleared, a hit object cannot be activated again.
Player Control
- Mouse/tablet movement to navigate Player position
- Up/Down/Left/Right Arrow (remap-able) "blinks" Player towards that direction (at fixed pixel distance) and cuts the string in its path
- Once the button is released, the player "blinks" back to the cursor location prior to the button press
Mapping & Design
MAPPING & DESIGN
Mapping
Basic map mapping should be exactly the same as osu standard, so that an existing osu standard map can be "translated" and played without extra tweak.
Additional "annoyance" objects (eg laser, ootama) can either be scripted for existing maps, or added by mappers for new submissions. The purpose of these additional annoyances are to discourage Player camping at the same spot.
The distance between 2 bullets (or "string length" as referred to from here on) is directly proportional to the length of a note. It'll be easier to visualise by the following figure.
Map Difficulty Settings
HP Drain Rate = same definition as osu standard
Circle Size = Size of bullets (larger bullets reduce the "string length")
Approach Rate = Speed of bullets
Overall Difficulty = same definition as osu standard
Mapping
Basic map mapping should be exactly the same as osu standard, so that an existing osu standard map can be "translated" and played without extra tweak.
Additional "annoyance" objects (eg laser, ootama) can either be scripted for existing maps, or added by mappers for new submissions. The purpose of these additional annoyances are to discourage Player camping at the same spot.
The distance between 2 bullets (or "string length" as referred to from here on) is directly proportional to the length of a note. It'll be easier to visualise by the following figure.
Map Difficulty Settings
HP Drain Rate = same definition as osu standard
Circle Size = Size of bullets (larger bullets reduce the "string length")
Approach Rate = Speed of bullets
Overall Difficulty = same definition as osu standard
Spinners
If there's spinner in Touhosu at all, I can think of 2 ways to do this:
- Fast rotating laser (constant rate). Player moves with the cone to stay safe. Player gains more bonus point by staying further away from the centre of rotation.
- Random stationary Danmaku filling the screen. Player's Grace circle activates. Free hand movement, grace for bonus points (you can still get hit and lose HP)
NOTE: This post is unfinished.
I saw the video Sakuya ed when I was half way through putting my ideas together. The game mechanism shown in that video is very clean and simple and it made me wonder if the stuff I'm proposing here is too complicated to code. I guess I'll leave this post as is unless people think it's worth digging deeper.
My idea favored simplicity and rhythm based movements to the common "Bullets spawn to the beat" thing. Both are decent, and none of our ideas are set in stone. Fixing my idea would be great, but I'll also provide ideas for the normal danmaku game.
My main theory behind this is that this game mode needs to be a rhythm game first. I am all for adding as many danmaku elements as we can, but there really should be some input on the character that is rhythm based. I like the string idea with the paired bullets, but it lacks the insensitive to move much if you are playing for fun instead of for score. Another thing we would be missing with the idea is accuracy. How do we what bullets count towards score, and which ones are not? We can't have 3000x Miss and 1% accuracy for every song.
With my idea, I thought of a slightly different movement plan. The character is still on a fixed plane, but this time it is a horizontal line or curve, which the player can travel along freely. When you tap a directional key, you move over one space. The same bullet patterns are waiting for you when you move over, but the immediate bullet in your way is deactivated if your timing was correct. It's the same game idea as before, but instead of being snapped back to the neutral area, your current location becomes the new neutral. I would imagine that you could pull a pac-man and move from one side of the stage to the other by moving too far one way.
This idea also brings back the potential boss idea. The entity moves around the top part of the stage, and the player gets bonus points (spinner bonus amount, not TOO much) for being in the position to deal damage to it. The closer you are to it, the more of your bullets hit it, and the more points you get for it.
The fixed sections that you can move in are there so people cannot camp. The game knows where to aim so you will always be moving because there is less variables. The screen is filled with bullets that you dodge, but your inputs are based on the music playing. I don't want to have vertical movement because that will alter the timing of which you need to dodge the bullets too much.
Now that I think about this, this is one of the hardest game genres to transform into a rhythm game.
Edit: I now have a visualization of how my idea would work.
My main theory behind this is that this game mode needs to be a rhythm game first. I am all for adding as many danmaku elements as we can, but there really should be some input on the character that is rhythm based. I like the string idea with the paired bullets, but it lacks the insensitive to move much if you are playing for fun instead of for score. Another thing we would be missing with the idea is accuracy. How do we what bullets count towards score, and which ones are not? We can't have 3000x Miss and 1% accuracy for every song.
With my idea, I thought of a slightly different movement plan. The character is still on a fixed plane, but this time it is a horizontal line or curve, which the player can travel along freely. When you tap a directional key, you move over one space. The same bullet patterns are waiting for you when you move over, but the immediate bullet in your way is deactivated if your timing was correct. It's the same game idea as before, but instead of being snapped back to the neutral area, your current location becomes the new neutral. I would imagine that you could pull a pac-man and move from one side of the stage to the other by moving too far one way.
This idea also brings back the potential boss idea. The entity moves around the top part of the stage, and the player gets bonus points (spinner bonus amount, not TOO much) for being in the position to deal damage to it. The closer you are to it, the more of your bullets hit it, and the more points you get for it.
The fixed sections that you can move in are there so people cannot camp. The game knows where to aim so you will always be moving because there is less variables. The screen is filled with bullets that you dodge, but your inputs are based on the music playing. I don't want to have vertical movement because that will alter the timing of which you need to dodge the bullets too much.
Now that I think about this, this is one of the hardest game genres to transform into a rhythm game.
Edit: I now have a visualization of how my idea would work.