| 📰 Title: | FretsOnFireX (FoFix) | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Multimedia | 👁️ Visual: | 2.5D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Multimedia ➤ Karaoke ➤ Musical Instruments | 🏝️ Perspective: | Third person |
| 🔖 Tags: | Multimedia; Music; Rhythm; Dance & Rhythm; Karaoke; Guitar Hero; Level Editor; Flagship; Local Multi; 4 Player Local; Online Multi | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 2008-10-12 | 👫️ Played: | Single & Multi |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2022-11-30 | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: 3.123 / Dev: 4.0.0 Alpha 2 / ffa76ff | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 🕊️ Libre | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | GPL-2 | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2010-08-20 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-10-10 |
| 📦️ Package name: | fofix | ..... 📦️ Arch: |  |
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| 📄️ Source: | |
..... 📦️ RPM: | |
| ⚙️ Generic binary: | ..... 📦️ Deb: | ||
| 🌍️ Browser version: | ..... 📦️ AppImage: | ||
| 📱️ PDA support: | ..... 📦️ Flatpak: | ||
| ✨️ Not use: | ..... 📦️ Snap: |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
| 🎖️ This work: |  |
🚧️ Some work remains to be done: | |
| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 11103 |
| 📜️[en]: | A fork of Frets on Fire, the libre and multiplatform equivalent of Guitar Hero or Rock Band. It's an instrumental karaoke whose objective is to play the guitar, bass or percussion as accurately as possible (using the keyboard or a musical instrument compatible with this type of game, to be plugged into the USB port) with the help of on-screen indications. FoFix adds support for up to 4 players locally, online multiplayer, themes, video background, bass and drum tracks, and preliminary lyrics support. | 📜️[fr]: | Un fork de Frets on Fire, l'équivalent libre et multi-plateforme de Guitar Hero ou Rock Band. C'est un karaoke instrumental dont l'objectif est de jouer le plus juste possible, de la guitare, de la basse ou des percussions (à l'aide du clavier ou d'un instrument de musique compatible avec ce type de jeux, à brancher sur le port USB) en s'aidant des indications portées à l'écran. FoFix ajoute notamment le support de 4 joueurs en local, le multi en ligne, des thèmes, un arrière plan vidéo, des pistes de basses et de batterie, et le support préliminaire des paroles. |
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🎲️ Gameplay: (201808), (202103), [fr](202110),
🏡️ Website & videos
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💰 Commercial
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🍩️ Resources
• Content (songs, themes, ...): [SourceForge (Frets on Fire Song Packs)] [Frets On Fire Wiki (Custom Songs - Registration is required for downloading)] g(201601)
🛠️ Technical informations
[Open Hub] [PCGamingWiki] [MobyGames]
🦣️ Social
Devs (FretsOnFireX Team 1 2 3] [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [Facebook] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
The Project: [Blog] [Forums] [mastodon] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [reddit] [Discord]
🐝️ Related
[Wikipedia (Frets on Fire) [fr] [en] [de]]
[Wikipedia (Guitar Hero) [fr] [en] [de]] - [Wikipedia (Rock Band) [fr] [en] [de]]
[The Linux Game Tome] [Ubuntu-fr [fr]] [Mod DB] [Indie DB]
📦️ Misc. repositories
[Repology] [pkgs.org] [Generic binary] [Arch Linux / AUR] [openSUSE] [Debian/Ubuntu] [Flatpak] [AppImage(author's repo)] [Snap] [PortableLinuxGames]
🕵️ Reviews
[HowLongToBeat] [metacritic] [OpenCritic] [iGDB]
🕊️ Source of this Entry: [Site (date)]
🦣️ Social Networking Update (on mastodon)
🕹️ Title: FretsOnFireX (FoFix)
🦊️ What's: A fork of Frets on Fire, the libre and multi-platform equivalent of Guitar Hero or Rock Band
🏡️ https://fofix.github.io/
🐣️ https://github.com/fofix/
🔖 #Flagship #LinuxGaming #Karaoke #MusicalInstrument
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM
📖 Our entry: (homeless)
🥁️ Update: 3.123
⚗️ Hotfix 🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/fofix/fofix/releases
🦣️ From: https://planet.freegamedev.net/2021/12/31/quarterly-report-2022-q4/
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/7tZRLgl81VI
🎲️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/z2QtYPs0_VA
🎲️[fr] https://www.youtube.com/embed/gR25iiynJb0
🕶️ A view of an example of a FoFix game with a rock concert in the background with a large audience, and in the foreground the keys to come (they scroll from the background to the foreground, we'll have to reproduce them) and the actual keys, on what looks like a guitar neck. On both sides of the interface, a "Late" indicator (on the right, seems to indicate that the player is late in his typing), the duration of the song (at the top of the screen), and the score (on the left).
📚️ FretsOnFireX is a fork of Frets on Fire, the libre and multiplatform equivalent of Guitar Hero or Rock Band. It's an instrumental karaoke whose objective is to play the guitar, bass or percussion as accurately as possible (using the keyboard or a musical instrument compatible with this type of game, to be plugged into the USB port) with the help of on-screen indications. FoFix adds support for up to 4 players locally, online multiplayer, themes, video background, bass and drum tracks, and preliminary lyrics support.
📜️ "A fork of Frets on Fire, the libre and multi-platform equivalent of Guitar Hero or Rock Band" 📜️
Frets on Fire X: a fork of Frets on Fire with many added features and capabilities
This is Frets on Fire X, a highly customizable rhythm game supporting many modes of guitar, bass, drum, and vocal gameplay for up to four players. It is the continuation of a long succession of modifications to the original Frets on Fire by Unreal Voodoo.
A multi-OS rhythm game, written in Python, similar to Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Play guitar, bass or drums along with your favorite songs on your computer using either your keyboard or instruments. You can use your Guitar Hero or Rock Band instrument controllers.
Separated audio tracks will mute when you fail to hit or sustain the required notes correctly to simulate a real concert-playing experience.
🌍️ Wikipedia (Frets on Fire):
Frets on Fire (FoF) is a free, open-source Finnish music video game created by Unreal Voodoo. Players use the keyboard to play along with markers which appear on screen, with the aim to score points, achieve a high point multiplier, and complete a song. Frets on Fire was the winner of the Assembly 2006 game development competition.
Development
The game is written in the Python programming language, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, although the game incorporates other free and open-source code under other licenses. The game's included song files and some internal fonts are proprietary, and their redistribution is not permitted outside of the Frets On Fire executable.
As there has not been an updated stable release of the original Frets on Fire since 2010, many former users have begun using Phase Shift, as it supports the use of song files originally created for Frets on Fire and offers more current support. Clone Hero had also released in 2017, and grew a large fanbase.
Gameplay
Frets on Fire is a music playing video game. It is playable on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The player presses buttons in time to coloured markers, which appear on-screen, the markers are matched with the rhythm of the music. Frets on Fire can be played by using a keyboard by pressing the fret buttons and pick buttons, although there is support for joysticks, meaning that with the appropriate adapter and/or software, various guitar-type controllers can be used as well.
Coloured square-shaped markers appear on the player's screen, synchronized with the song and are played by holding the fret buttons that correspond with the correct colour and pressing one of the pick button at the correct moment. Every ten correct hits increase the score multiplier, which multiplies the points for every hit by up to four times. The multiplier is reset when the player misses a note or strums at the wrong time.
Features
Frets on Fire includes a built-in song editor (or "fretting" tool) that allows editing and creation of songs. This allows users to customise their own tracks. Other programs include EOF (EditorOnFire), dB (Feedback), and Freetar editors. MIDI sequences created in programs such as FL Studio and REAPER can also be used. The Frets on Fire Wiki has an extensive resource of custom song frets. There are also many other sites that have been created to provide songs and other resources for the game. Frets on Fire also allows users to import songs from other guitar games. These include Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s. The game also features a tutorial, which lets users unfamiliar with the gameplay get accustomed to the game. While the game contains a keyboard play mode, USB Joysticks can also be used. This allows regular joysticks and guitar controllers to be controllers for the game as well, helping to replicate the same feel that commercial guitar games provide.
Since version 1.2.438, the game features hammer-on and pull-off notes, commonly abbreviated to HOPO, although the game refers to them as "tappable notes". These notes allows the player to press only its fret button to play if the previous note was played correctly, emulating the feature of the Guitar Hero series. Bugs were found in the new gameplay element, and version 1.2.451 fixed them; this version also added an option to disable HOPO notes. Frets On Fire lacks the ability to allow players to use the whammy bar, while FoFiX has basic support for modulating the pitch of a track. This is referred to as either "Killswitch" or "Pitchbend." This was added in the 3.100 update for FoFiX.
Much like console guitar-style games, Frets on Fire comes with World Charts, an official online high score list. However, since the entire system is open source, players have the ability to host their own server as well.
Latest versions of the game (1.2.512 and 1.3.110) are affected by major bugs and it may be hard or impossible to use them; a comfortable solution is to download a previous version, such as 1.2.451.
Alternate versions
One popular version of the game is Frets on Fire X (commonly abbreviated FoFiX), a fork developed from a series of mods of version 1.2.451 of Frets on Fire. As well as having support for four players, this fork supports custom graphical themes (which enables users to create a Guitar Hero or Rock Band look-alike), bass and drum tracks and preliminary support for lyrics. The latest stable version of FoFiX is 3.121 released on December 7, 2009. Currently in development for version 4.000 is the inclusion of Online-Multiplayer, Video Background Support, and support for both Guitar Hero and Rock Band styles of play among many others.
Reception and impact
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Un karaoke instrumental dans lequel le joueur doit reproduire une mélodie, par la FretsOnFireX Team.
En Python.
FretsOnFireX (FoFix) est un fork de Frets on Fire, l'équivalent libre et multi-plateforme de Guitar Hero ou Rock Band. C'est un karaoke instrumental dont l'objectif est de jouer le plus juste possible, de la guitare, de la basse ou des percussions (à l'aide du clavier ou d'un instrument de musique compatible avec ce type de jeux, à brancher sur le port USB) en s'aidant d'indications portées à l'écran. FoFix ajoute notamment le support de 4 joueurs en local, le multi en ligne, des thèmes, un arrière plan vidéo, des pistes de basses et de batterie, et le support préliminaire des paroles.
Frets on Fire X: un fork de Frets on Fire avec de nombreuses fonctionnalités ajoutées
Frets on Fire X est un jeu rythmique hautement personnalisable prenant en charge de nombreux modes de jeu pour guitare, basse, batterie et voix pouvant accueillir jusqu'à quatre joueurs. C’est la suite d’une longue série de modifications apportées à l’original Frets on Fire par Unreal Voodoo.
Jeu de rythme multi-OS, écrit en Python, similaire à Guitar Hero ou Rock Band. Jouez de la guitare, de la basse ou de la batterie avec vos chansons préférées sur votre ordinateur en utilisant votre clavier ou vos instruments. Vous pouvez utiliser vos contrôleurs d’instruments Guitar Hero ou Rock Band.
Les pistes audio séparées sont mises en sourdine lorsque vous ne parvenez pas à frapper ou à maintenir les notes requises correctement pour simuler une véritable expérience de concert.
🌍️ Wikipedia (Frets on Fire):
Frets on Fire (abrégé FoF) est un jeu vidéo de musique libre et gratuit. Il est le gagnant de la compétition de développement de jeux de l'Assembly demo party 2006. Frets on Fire est écrit en Python, et utilise la bibliothèque Amanith. Le jeu fonctionne sous Windows, Linux et Mac OS X (Mac Intel uniquement).
Système de jeu
Frets on Fire est un clone de Guitar Hero pour PC. Le joueur doit appuyer sur les boutons de frets (par défaut les boutons F1 à F5) pour pincer la corde, et sur le bouton pick (par défaut, la touche entrée) pour gratter les cordes, afin de jouer la chanson. Toutes les 10 notes correctement jouées, le multiplicateur de point augmente jusqu'à 4. En revanche, chaque erreur est sanctionnée par un couac disgracieux, l'interruption de la mélodie, et la chute du multiplicateur de points à 1.
Depuis la version 1.2.438, il est possible de jouer certaines notes sans avoir à les picker, mais seulement si la note précédente a été jouée correctement. Certains solos rapides peuvent donc être exécutés beaucoup plus facilement.
L'originalité du jeu réside dans son moyen de contrôle. En effet, à l'origine, le jeu se jouait exclusivement avec un clavier d'ordinateur. La position des touches permet de jouer en prenant le clavier de manière à imiter la position d'un guitariste. Libre au joueur expérimenté de prendre les positions de ses guitaristes favoris, ce qui est facilité par exemple par l'emploi d'un clavier sans fil. Aujourd'hui, il est également possible d'utiliser les guitares vendues avec Guitar Hero.
Le jeu, étant libre, offre une grande possibilité de modification, autant sur le plan graphique (thèmes visuels) que sur le plan de la mécanique du jeu lui-même (ajout de fonctionnalités, par exemple un mode 2-joueurs). Bien qu'il soit aisé de modifier soi-même le jeu, plusieurs mods et thèmes existent et viennent ajouter à l'originalité du jeu. Par ailleurs, les fichiers sonores utilisés par le jeu sont compressés dans un format audio libre, l'ogg vorbis.
Plusieurs communautés se sont développées autour du jeu. Quelques fans ont même fabriqué une guitare pour y jouer, émulant un clavier. Les communautés exploitent entre autres la possibilité que le jeu possède d'envoyer son score (pointage ?) automatiquement à la fin d'une partie sur un serveur. Ce score est envoyé par défaut au serveur World Charts où l'on retrouve les pointages de milliers de joueurs. Notons aussi qu'il existe différents systèmes permettant de développer son propre site, systèmes tout aussi open-source que le jeu lui-même.
Contenu
• Quatre niveaux de difficulté (Supaeasy ou « trop facile », Facile, Moyen, et Amazing, qui pourrait se traduire par « Impressionnant ») ;
• Un tutoriel ;
• Un éditeur de chansons permettant la modification des chansons existantes ou la création de nouvelles chansons ;
• Trois chansons incluses de base ;
• Compatibilité avec la guitare de Guitar Hero, ou une manette de console à port USB ;
• La possibilité d'importer les chansons de Guitar Hero, de Guitar Hero II ou de Guitar Hero III ou d'autres chansons sur https://www.fretsonfire.org.
Informations utiles
Il existe plusieurs versions améliorées de Frets on Fire par les membres d'un forum anglophone, Fofix notamment, qui ressemble encore plus aux nouveaux Guitar Hero et Rock Band.