Building a music rhythm video game

Year:

2016

Phase:

Finished

Authors:

Rúben Rodrigues Rebelo

Advisors:

Abstract

The video game industry has been growing over the years due to its continuous innovations and creativity. One of the existing video game genres is the music-based video game, in which the gameplay is influenced by the music. Music-based videogames had a irregular path over the years, but nowadays they are expanding not only with traditional gameplay, but with innovative devices that improve the experience. In this work, we developed a rhythm music video game prototype, with characteristics from other rhythm music-based games, in which we try to influence the gameplay with the music that is played. For this purpose, we built a game engine to support a particle system and we created a level editor to create music levels. Finally, we evaluated the game experience with users and whether the game achieves the rhythm experience of games of this genre. From such evaluation, we can conclude that our game delivers the essential experience of a music rhythm game.