Steady the Drums!
Rhythm ∙ StrategyIn Steady the Drums! you play as a War Drummer tasked to lead the army to protect the city of Velaris from a onslaught of monsters.
Gameplay is mixture of a Tower-Defense Real-time Strategy and a Rhythm game, where your goal is to play Drum Patterns corresponding to different strategic commands, like Attack, Defend, Retreat.
In the Latest Game update, we have added a lot of new additional content:
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New Winter Level: Velaris has been enshrouded in a grip of icey winter, but the evil wizard Amaranth, has found a way to continuoue its siege. Protect Velaris against new Monsters.
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New Study Gamemode: We have designed a new gamemode, where you can improve your rhytmic skill simple rhythmic tasks featuring varying Rhythmic Timings and Patterns.
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New Ability and Cavalry Unit: added a special ability to spawn Cannon Balls, with which you can reign the monsters down with Cannon Fire
Story
You are the blacksmith’s son, living in the medieval town of Velaris. The King of your land is in the east, forging important alliances. The malevolent sorcerer Amaranth, in all its cunning, has been waiting for Velaris to be left defenceless.
The army is in desperate need of a drummer, that would help lead the defense of the city.
Protect your loved ones, find the key to victory, and lead your army, your friends, your Velaris to triumph!
| comfort | ⦾ Comfortable |
| age rating | 0+ Everyone |
| website | lgm.fri.uni-lj.si |
| developer | Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Multimedia at FRI-UL |
| publisher | Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Multimedia at FRI-UL |
| connection | Internet not required |
| app version | 1.3.1 |
| languages | English |
Reviews 4
A good start - but...
Extra points for being free! Thank You.
ALso this could be great , but it is not yet.
3 dealbreakers:
1 - your background music has too many syncopated fills, and it is not clear if your programming timing is bad, or just hard to understand where the 1 is and where the downbeat is. Please ADD an option to overlay a game metronome pip sound over the soundtrack that we can add or remove so we can feel your games particular rhythm. EIther than or significantly rethink your music… it is not helping the gameplay currently, not aesthetically, not in helping the player learn the game. The visual tempo indicator is not clear enough to overcome this issue.
2- drum sound does not coincide with drum visuals percisely enough. There is a lag which might need a menu slider, and even setup menu.
3 - You absolutely need controls to raise and lower the drum interface. Not everyone drums from the same posture. This is an accessibility issue.
Smashingly exciting
As the title suggests, you smash the drums - excitedly. There are a few bugs here and there as is common with new releases, but nothing major. The game represents a truly fresh and engaging approach in the field of rhythm learning!
Awesome free game!
It's free to play and the new version has a bunch of new levels.
You have to hit the drums at an exact timing which the game never provides.