Any one who like to play guitar will love these music game, Frets On Fire, an open source game based on Sony PlayStation™ 2 Game Guitar Hero.

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.

Features

• Unique inverted keyboard gameplay style
• 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
• Supports importing Guitar Hero™ I and Guitar Hero™ II songs
• Multiplatform; runs on Windows™, Linux®, Mac OS X™ and FreeBSD®
• Open source, full Python source code available

Requirements

• 128 MB of RAM
• A fairly fast OpenGL graphics card with decent drivers
• Windows:Direct X compatible sound card
• Linux:SDL compatible sound card; SDL library installed
• Mac OS X: Intel processor

Credits

Frets on Fire was created as an entry to the Assembly 2006 Game Development Competition by Unreal Voodoo. It placed first in the competition. The original team members are:

Game Design, Programming :

Sami Kyöstilä

Music, Sound Effects :

Tommi Inkilä

Graphics :

Joonas Kerttula

Jürgen :

Mikko Korkiakoski