

He shared with me some of the entries from his developer diary back in the early days. When Azman first conceived of Rhythm Doctor, he thought for sure it was going to fail.

The three are a remote team, as Azman and Lee are based in Malaysia and Preciado in Peru.
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Giacomo Preciado joined last year to help with the code after he and Azman connected at the Game Developers Conference industry event in 2014. The one-button mechanic draws inspiration from Nintendo’s touchscreen-based Rhythm Heaven, as well as the desire to make the game accessible to folks who are visually impaired. The concept is straightforward, but the gameplay gets its hooks in fast, especially as 7th Beat has just added co-op play. Then the system begins acting strangely, infected by a virus that glitches out the screen and even affects the music. The visuals echo the theme as the song dances along a line, pulsing like a heart monitor. While the music plays, you press the button on every seventh beat. You play as an intern who’s in charge of a remote defibrillator.
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Now it’s nearing completion, with plans to release its debut for PC, Mac, and iOS and Android devices in the first half of 2018.Īs the name might imply, Rhythm Doctor’s story takes place in a hospital. Though these particular accolades are recent, it’s been a six-year journey for 7th Beat Games, the three-person studio behind the innovative rhythm game. It also won the award for best audio at the Indie Prize Showcase in Asia, the Busan Indie Connect Festival, and more. It was an official nominee at IndieCade and earned a spot at Double Fine’s Day of the Devs festival. Rhythm Doctor‘s catchy riffs and clever one-button gameplay have mesmerized a few notable indie game events this year. All rights reserved.Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. This announcement was not well received by the Hololive Production fan base and even by those who do not even know about it, as the game’s site on Steam has been filled with negative criticism of the influence of politics in the world. To date, all old streams made by Hololive Production talents where they were shown playing Muse Dash have been set to private. We will move towards an official contract to discontinue all collaboration with Hololive Production in order to prevent any live streaming of our games by their talents. Hololive Production broke its own promise by continuing to broadcast the game anyway. As a Chinese gaming company, it is our obligation to protect the unity of our homeland and the integrity of our territory, as it is also the most important task in all of our business operations.Īt first, clearly committed to contacting Hololive Production’s main offices by, and we got a response from them explaining that they will no longer be streaming games distributed by X.D. As for a recent broadcast by Hololive Production, a portion of the talents have issued comments that divide the homeland, that clearly come into contact with the political red line and act against the national interest. However, as a Chinese game and a Chinese enterprise, we are required to resist words and deeds that harm national unity. Network is always encouraging and open to all who are sympathetic to the game and have never banned live streaming of the game. “Muse Dash is a music video game that offers happiness, and X.D. Network Inc., the distributor of Muse Dash, released a statement to this effect on the Chinese gaming community, NGA, and the Japanese website Hachima provided a translation of it: Network Inc., a popular title that all the talents have been playing, announced that they have banned Hololive Production from streaming this game because they “spoke badly about the motherland.”

China bans Hololive from broadcasting Muse Dash video gameĬhina continues to dictate what Hololive Production’s Virtual YouTubers are allowed to do, since video game distributor Muse Dash, X.D.
