A Dance of Fire and Ice News

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

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World 12, ‘Artificial Chariot’, has been added! The song is by Riya, of Butterfly Planet fame, and the level design is by SimsimHI. Test your skills with navigating tight turns and evading robotic goat drones!

[h2]New features:[/h2]

• Planet Colors: You can now choose new planet colors in the main area of the level select menu. You unlock the colors by completing the first six worlds. If you unlocked the Golden Planets for mastering the game, you can toggle them on and off by using this feature. Customize your planets with different color combinations!
  
  
• Xtra Levels: On the main menu, you can now travel to an island of extra bonus levels after you complete World 6. The levels in this section are not a part of the main progression of levels to beat the game. They don't have individual achievements tied to beating them. They will sometimes have hand-drawn art assets, they sometimes won’t. They sometimes have tutorials, they sometimes don't. They’re just extra levels to play, of a wide variety of difficulty levels. More levels will be added to this section in the future.
  

[h2]New editor features:[/h2]

• Moving track chunks: Select a tile, then hold Alt while clicking to drag selected track areas to different places! This is for the level creator’s use only, and is useful for visually untangling overlapping track segments. It has no effect on the gameplay. Moving a track piece close to another tile will snap them together. This works well in conjunction with Shift+Left/Right and CTRL+Shift+Left/Right for more precise area selections
  5 new visual filters: Static, Film Grain, Motion Blur, Fisheye, and Funk
  
• Orbit Easing: A new setting allows you to separate the orbit’s easing speed into multiple parts
  
• Tile Numbering: Press Ctrl+F to display numbers on your tiles while you edit the track
  

[h2]Improvements and bug fixes:[/h2]

• Fixed a bug where you would continue to hear the sound effects of the track play after you lose
  
• Various game and level editor bug fixes
  

We hope you enjoy the new customization features. We’ll be looking into adding new colors or new ways to customize in the future. We’re also working on World 13.

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

World 11, ‘Heracles’, has been added! The song is by the musician Yooh , whose music you might have heard in other rhythm games like SOUND VOLTEX. The level design is by Exschwasion, with tutorial tracks contributed by Riya. Test your skills with a variety of track shapes in this high-energy, high-tempo battle.

New level editor features:

• Decorations: You can now Add or Move Decoration events. This allows you to upload images and place them throughout the level, separate from the background layer
  
• Orbit Easing: Set Orbit Ease level settings or events. Now the planets can rotate with a little more customization between notes
  
• Two New Track Styles: Neon Light and Gems
  
• Undo and Redo: Use Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-Y to undo and redo your changes in the editor
  

Improvements and bug fixes:

• You can use F5 and F7 keys to make Pentagons and Heptagons in the level editor (There may be a few bugs with this for now)
  
• You can now lock the Rotation property for backgrounds, so that they don’t rotate during the level
  
• Improved scrubbing for Move Tiles event
  
• Tile icon black outline bug fixed
  
• Update to UI: Properties that are useless will become greyed out
  
• If open a custom level with a high tempo detected, Otto will get a little flustered in the corner.
  

Happy New Year! This also happens to mark one whole year of free updates, we hope you’ve been enjoying everything we've added so far. We have more updates planned for 2020, so be ready for some very challenging levels in the future. We’ll also be adding a few more level editor features along with them.

What’s your favorite level so far? And which level has been the hardest for you to beat? Let us know in the comments, we’re very interested.

Also...don’t forget that you can find other players’ custom levels by joining our Discord server: discord.gg/rhythmdr

Thanks for playing!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/adofai
Discord: https://discord.gg/rhythmdr

World 10, 'Butterfly Planet', has been added! The song and level design are by the musician and ADOFAI fan Riya. Test your skills with octagon turns and a fast tempo.

New level editor features:

• Move Track: Now you can move or rotate the track’s tiles around the screen. Now your level can be way more lively!
  
• Sticky Tiles: Use these to keep the planets attached to the track while the track is moving or rotating.
  
• Icon Outlines: Now you can toggle whether the Spiral, Rabbit, and Snail icons have an outline around them, to make them easier for the player to see.
  

Improvements and bug fixes:

• Cloud saving works better! If you lose your data, you can restore based on your achievements in the options menu
  
• Level Editor shortcuts: + and - on keyboard for zoom
  
• Level Editor shortcuts: shift + left or right to highlight multiple, Home and End to jump to start and end
  
• Achievements now pop up correctly as you unlock them
  
• Pause menu scroll sensitivity increased
  
• Various level editor bugfixes
  
• Mac compatibility bugfix
  
• Removed splash screen due to breaking on some setups
  
• Reduced intensity of the background flash at the end of levels a bit. It was a little painful
  

Thank you all for your support! We hope you enjoy the new world and the new editor features. We’ve seen some very, very impressive custom levels on Youtube and we love watching them. We look forward to adding more new features and levels in the future!

Thank you for playing!

• World 9, 'Classic Pursuit', has been added! The song is by the musician cYsmix, and the level design is by Aratonati. Test your skills with tight corners while escaping an alien invasion!
  

New level editor features:

• New custom background options: Now you can make custom backgrounds loop, or even have a parallax effect! Set backgrounds to tiled for funky repeating patterns, or set them to unscaled and set the size of the background yourself, allowing you to make sprawling landscapes that you can explore throughout your level!
  
• Camera settings: Now you can set the camera at the very start of the level! Want a cinematic angle right off the bat for your favorite action movie song? Well go ahead and make it a reality!
  
• Color and animate track events: The Change Track event has been replaced with two new events: Color Track and Animate Track. You’ll be able to do the same things you’ve always been able to do with the original Change Track event, but now you don’t have to worry about managing a single gargantuan event each time!
  
• New track color options: Now you can add a pulse effect to animated track color types (glow, etc.), letting you make cool waves of color that move throughout your level. Speaking of animated track color types, there’s now a few more you can play around with; Blink and Switch color types will give you plenty to experiment with! Tip: Set pulse length to 2 for a fun disco pattern!
  
• Recolor track event: Introducing Recolor Track! This will allow you to change the color - and even the style - of a section of track, right in the middle of your level! Now you can do cool effects, like changing the color of the whole track to fit the mood at different points in a song, among other things. See what cool things you can come up with!
  
• Set filter event: Introducing Set Filter! This lets you add all kinds of cool filters to your level. Make the game look like it’s on an old 80’s TV, or like it’s on an arcade machine, or add some rain, or even make it look like a pencil drawing! You can even add several filters at once! VHS recording in a blizzard? Yep!
  
• Hall of mirrors events: Introducing Hall of Mirrors! Have you ever won Windows Solitaire? Well add a little of that fun card-snake magic to your level! It might look a bit weird on its own, but try combining it with background flashes, or even some filters!
  
• Shortcuts panel: Don’t know how to use the fancy keyboard shortcuts needed to use some of the editor’s features? Just press ctrl + H - or click “Help” in the file actions panel, to get a handy little panel telling you all the shortcuts you’ll need to know. Now you’re creating with power!
  

Improvements and bug fixes:

• Editor: fixed possible desync when starting in the middle of a level (thanks Nichipe!)
  
• Editor: starting in the middle of a level with large offset no longer adds an extra long delay before starting
  
• Midnight Train can keep up with the planets during Speed Trials
  
• Added swirl arrows to Spin 2 Win
  
• Added portal art for bonus stage
  
• World name is now localised
  

Thank you all for your continued support! We hope you are enjoying the new levels, and enjoying the level editor. We've seen some very, very amazing custom levels on Youtube and in our Discord channel.

Our next update to the game will be focused on the level editor and other small improvements. The next update after that will have another new level. Let us know what you think of the new levels so far! There are now 3 of them, which can be accessed by landing on the gems in the Level Select menu to reach the lower half of the menu.

Thank you for playing!

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Discord: https://discord.gg/rhythmdr