A Dance of Fire and Ice News

Our new rhythm game, Rhythm Doctor, is out now on Steam Early Access!

Much like A Dance of Fire and Ice, Rhythm Doctor is a one-button rhythm game meant to explore rhythm gameplay in a new way. By pressing the Spacebar on the 7th beat, you can save patients' lives by synchronizing with their heartbeats.

The Early Access release also includes...

1. 20+ handmade levels, each with their own story.
   
2. A large cast of doctors and patients to meet in the overarching narrative
   
3. Robust level editor to make, share, and play community levels! Use your own music, place notes snapped to the beat, and use 50+ different visual effects and backgrounds
   
4. Challenging "Night Shift" versions of each level for the brave
   

The game is currently launching in English, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified + Traditional.) A localization for Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish will be added in a future update in the next few weeks.

Our community has made hundreds of really incredible custom levels, you can find them by joining our Community Discord: discord.gg/rhythmdr

Owners of A Dance of Fire and Ice can receive a discount on Rhythm Doctor by using our "Rhythm Doctor + A Dance of Fire and Ice Bundle": https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/20117

We would also like to announce that more updates are coming to A Dance of Fire and Ice later this year! Thank you for your patience as we launch Rhythm Doctor. We are excited to return with new updates later in 2021. We and our Community mods have been playing incredible community levels over the months, and collecting many of them in our RDL Constellations collection: [link]

Thank you for playing!

Steam Workshop support is here!

Visit our Workshop to easily browse custom levels made by the community. Download a level you’d like to play by clicking the green “Subscribe” button, then the level will appear in the Custom Level Select section of the game’s main menu. If you’re looking for some great levels to start with, try the levels that rank high in the “Most Subscribed” tab or levels tagged with the “Easy” or “Medium” difficulty.

Another great place to start is to download the levels from the RDL Constellations collection, which is a set of levels recommended by the moderator staff on our Discord Server.

A new Xtra level, ‘Rose Garden’, has been added! The song is by RoDy.cOde, and the level is created by hotduck, LUMI, and NumbEr07. Test your skills with sharp triangle turns in an elegant floating garden.

New difficult levels have been added in a new location, Crown Island, with:

‘One Forgotten Night’, with music by Quree and level design by Star4th.
‘Options’, with music by Frums. This level was inspired by a level created by PowerFactory.

New features:

• Steam Workshop + Custom Level Select: Access the Custom Level Select in the main menu to play custom levels. You can browse through all of the levels you have subscribed to on our Steam Workshop page.
  
• Adjustments of default timing strictness for levels faster than 310 bpm.
  In ADOFAI, timing strictness is determined by the angles the planets make to the tiles, so the game becomes stricter as the planets move faster. This used to happen up to a cap of 500 bpm. After the cap, the timing doesn’t get more strict. From this version onwards, the cap is now 310 bpm in ‘Normal mode’, and 500 bpm in ‘Strict mode’.
  
• Timing strictness option for fast levels:
  You can now change the timing strictness upon starting the level, if the level is above 310 bpm.
  ‘Normal’ strictness will make any speeds above 310bpm have the same timing strictness as what it is at 310 bpm. ‘Strict’ timing strictness raises that cap to 500 bpm.
  This change doesn’t affect the difficulty of any past official levels, since all official levels in the game so far have been below 310 bpm.
  This change was done to enable more players to be able to experience faster custom levels. Experienced players can still use Strict mode to use the old timing strictness. Strictness is indicated in the bottom right of the screen.
  (The ‘Red Otto’ symbol seen in the bottom-right corner of the screen in the previous versions of the game is the equivalent of Strict mode in the new version.)
  
• New Shortcuts: From the Level Select screen, press Ctrl+Shift+E (Command+Shift+E on Mac) to open the Level Editor and Ctrl+Shift+C (Command+Shift+C on Mac) to open the Custom Level Select screen.
  
• Crown Island: If you’re looking for an even harder challenge, a new post-game set of levels will be unlocked for those who complete the bonus level B-X.
  
• The planets now have a sound effect when they explode. More sound effects coming soon, from our new sound designer s9menine! If you'd like to disable it, press Ctrl-Shift-D during a level or in the level select.
  
• Multiple hits: multiple keypresses in a single frame are now properly detected as multiple inputs, rather than the extra keypresses being dropped, so you no longer have to stagger your inputs when there are hits very close to each other. These are only allowed for singular double-hits, not on long consecutive hits, so that you still can’t cheese them by playing them at half-speed with two keys per hit, e.g. 123412341234 being played as [12][34][12][34].
  

New editor features:

• Editor Position Offset indicator lines now have an animated dotted line that indicates the direction of the connection
  
• Editor Floor Number markings (Ctrl+F on Windows, Command+F on Mac) and Position Offset line indicators now respawn on exiting the editor playback mode
  
• Color Picker: You can now set the color properties in the Editor by using a Color Picker to set the color. No more Hex Codes needed!
  
• Planet Decorations: Set decorations to be anchored to the movement of the planets themselves, so that the decorations will travel with them.
  

We are excited to see and play the worlds you come up with and add to our Workshop community! If you’re interested in publishing your level to the Steam Workshop, please read this guide to make sure your song has verified permission and that there are no issues with the level: https://www.notion.so/7BG-Guidelines-278aa02ea60c41549641e75c0b69ba34

Thanks for playing!

Our fans run a Discord server where you can talk about our games and the level editor: discord.gg/rhythmdr

Twitter: https://twitter.com/adofai
Website: https://www.7thbe.at

We've added two new Xtra levels to the game!

A new Xtra level, ‘Final Hope’, has been added! The song is by Riya, and the level design is by Rikri. Test your skills with quick square-shaped corners and keep the beat through a heavy snowstorm.

Another new Xtra level, 'Distance', has been added! The song is by Meganeko and the level design is by Fancybread. This song is from Project Arrhythmia, a rhythm dodger game available now on Steam!

[h2]New editor features:[/h2]

• Event Tags: Use tagging to specify which Events should be affected by others (for example: which Events to repeat using “Repeat Events”)
  
• Set Conditional Events: Set Events to trigger differently depending on condition (“trigger on Perfect hit”, “trigger on Miss”, etc.)
  
• Reposition Track: Set the track’s position from the start of the level. Use the “Editor Only” toggle to reposition the track for your own organization while using the Editor
  
• Two New Track Appearance Animations: Rise and Fall
  
• New Track Style: Basic
  
• New Event: Bloom
  
• New Visual Filter: Chromatic Aberration
  
• Change UI Size: Press Ctrl+Minus or Ctrl+Plus to make the UI smaller or larger.
  

[h2]ADOFAI + PA Rhythm Bundle[/h2]

To celebrate our collaboration, you can get A Dance of Fire and Ice and Project Arrhythmia together in a bundle for 10% off! Enjoy these two unique indie rhythm games, or complete your set if you're already a fan of one!

You will still receive the discount even if you already own one of the games.

Thanks for playing!

Our fans run a Discord server where you can talk about our games and the level editor: discord.gg/rhythmdr

Twitter: https://twitter.com/adofai
Website: https://www.7thbe.at

As you may know, we have another rhythm game in development called Rhythm Doctor. In conjunction with the Steam Game Festival, we're releasing a limited-time sneak peek of a few of Rhythm Doctor's levels. If you enjoyed A Dance of Fire and Ice, we highly suggest you check it out!

You can find the game at its Steam Store Page, and find the Festival demo here.

[h2]What is Rhythm Doctor?[/h2]
Rhythm Doctor is a one-button rhythm game where you heal patients in a hospital by synchronising shocks to their heartbeats. Each patient has a unique heartbeat to sync to. Inspired by the Rhythm Heaven series, the game focuses on simple-looking rhythms and then tries to catch you off-guard, throwing fiendish tricks to throw you off-rhythm!

[h2]What's in the Demo[/h2]

• Four levels from the full game, each one with unique tricks to throw you off-rhythm
  
• A Sleeve Painter tool for you to draw your own personal sleeve and express yourself in freehand
  
• A new guided calibration tool to ensure the game is accurate for your setup
  
• The latest version of our level editor
  
• Some secrets for the determined
  
• If you have a friend, every level can be played in local two-player mode
  
• Each level is perfectly synced (we're musicians and off-beat games hurt us)
  

[h2]Frequently Asked Questions[/h2]
[h3]I want more![/h3]
Have you played the original flash demo from years ago? The levels there are totally different from the newer ones in the Steam demo, but we think they're still pretty good!

[h3]Simple?! These levels were really difficult![/h3]
We wanted to give a taste of levels from the easy to the hard end. Rest assured that the full game has many levels in between these to slowly train up your defibrillation skills.

[h3]You've been making this game for 1343 years.[/h3]
Yes...

[h2]Thanks for playing![/h2]
Thanks for checking us out. If you liked the demo, you can wishlist the game to be notified when we release. If you have bug reports, questions or feedback, we're real active on the Rhythm Doctor Discord. Come and say hi!

A new Xtra level, ‘Credits’, has been added! The song is by Frums, and the level design is by Exschwasion. Test your skills by surviving square-shaped paths and angled turns in a lo-fi digital world.

New editor features:

• Checkpoints: You can now add a checkpoint into your custom level! Players will start from this tile upon failing the level.
  

This update was added at the beginning of the month, but maybe you haven’t played it yet. In the next few months we will be continuing to add more levels, editor features, and planet color options. Later in the year, we’ll be adding a section of the game to make it easier to import, organize, and play custom levels without needing to play them in the editor.

Thanks to the new editor features, we’ve seen a lot of really incredible custom levels made by the players. We hope you look forward to more updates!

Thanks for playing!

Our fans run a Discord server where you can talk about our games and the level editor: discord.gg/rhythmdr

Twitter: https://twitter.com/adofai
Website: www.7thbe.at