0.1.1: 64 lanes

A minor update that improves interoperability with other rhythm games.

64 lanes

The number of available lanes is increased from 12 to 64. This means it's now necessary to scroll vertically in the pattern editor - do so with Shift+Scroll wheel. You can also click and drag the middle mouse button, this works in both dimensions.

Playing audio

How the game and editor plays audio is revamped.

Before: each lane is tied to an AudioSource, which plays all keysounds on that lane. This means if a note plays its keysound while another note on the same lane is playing, it will cut off the earlier note.

After: a total of 64 AudioSources are available, and are not tied to lanes. When the game needs to play a keysound, it will look for any available AudioSource. If none is available, it will choose the AudioSource with the least remaining time left and cut it off. This means notes will not cut off each other unless there are 65 or more keysounds playing simultaneously.

Other improvements

You can now press Ctrl+D to deselect all notes in the editor. (never mind, somehow this feature didn't make it into this release)

Known issues

Same as 0.1.

Which file to download

Starting this release, TECHMANIA and its included tracks will be released separately.

If you have 0.1, you do not need to download Tracks.zip, as its contents are unchanged from 0.1.

If you do not have 0.1, download both zips and extract them to the same folder.

0.1

The first public release of TECHMANIA!

Features

• Play in 3 control schemes: Touch, Keys and KM (Keyboard + Mouse). Only Touch requires a touchscreen.
• Make your own tracks using the built-in editor.
• Full keysound support.

Included tracks

• Tutorial, by DJ Hitori
• Étude Op. 10, No. 3 in E Major, by Frédéric Chopin
• f for fun
  • composed by ELENCE
  • background video by nidhog feat. Fictional Fools
  • Audio, video and image files (track.tech not included) in this track are released, with permission of respective authors, under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. Note that this license prohibits commercial use and derivative work.

Known issues

• Many features are missing from this release, and will be implemented in future versions. Refer to the kanban for details. Notable missing features include:
  • Latency calibration and handling
  • Internationalization (i.e.. game cannot display non-English characters)
  • Gameplay options
• The editor hangs for a few seconds when opening/closing large patterns, and also when undoing/redoing while editing them.
• The "Additional credits" text box in the editor behaves weirdly when there are multiple lines of text in it.
• Some invalid note placements may cause the game to behave weirdly or soft lock, and the editor does not detect all such placements.

Alpha 2

After a complete UI overhaul, TECHMANIA is starting to look like a proper game! It still only supports 1 note type, with more coming in the next release.

New features:

• Complete UI overhaul
• Hidden lanes
• Track preview
• Background image and video
• Fever

Alpha 1

The first ever release of TECHMANIA! This is version Alpha 1, where only the very minimal set of features are implemented. The following features are notably missing and will be implemented in upcoming versions:

• Any note type other than Basic notes
• Track preview
• Background image or video
• Life bar and Fever bar
• No fail and Auto play