Ark Beat
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What's Ark Beat
Ark Beat is a rhythm game written in masm. It started as a term project of our assembly language class, but now we believe it's a decent game.
It's also a fan work following Muse Dash and Arknights
Ready to go, Doctor?
For now, only Windows is supported, and tests are carried out on Windows 10 only
If you have put your song(s) in the music folder, just double click on Ark Beat.exe and enjoy yourself!
Guide on usage
The game Ark Beat has three interfaces:
- start interface
- music selection interface
- game interface
Let's go through all of them.
1. start interface
- Escape : exit the game
- Any other key : start game (go to music selection interface)
2. music selection interface
Snatch of the current song will be played repeatedly
Missing cover(s) will be replaced by default cover
- Escape : return to start interface
- Space : replay the current snatch
- Should the snatch with suffix .clip.mp3 not exist, a warning would pop up
- A / Left Arrow : switch to previous song
- D / Right Arrow : switch to next song
- Return : start playing (go to game interface)
- Should the music with suffix .mp3 or .wav not exist, a warning would pop up
- Should the notes with suffix .ark1 and .ark2 not exist, a warning would pop up
3. game interface
- Escape : open the in-game menu
- In-game menu
- Escape : resume the game
- Enter : return to music selection interface
- In-game menu
- F / D / S : hit the upper track (Texas beats)
- J / K / L : hit the lower track (Amiya beats)
Wanna be creative?
Skadi's workshop is just for creative Doctors like you!
You could make notes for your favourite songs!
Preparations
Attention: Put Skadi's workshop.exe under the folder Ark Beat, that is, you should keep Skadi's workshop.exe and music folder in the same directory
The song folder should be as follows:
Ark Beat
└─music
└─foo
foo.mp3
foo.clip.mp3 (optional)
foo.ico (optional)
foo.ark1 (to be generated)
foo.ark2 (to be generated)
- A folder put under the music folder, with name foo (it's highly recommended to use the song's name) of your own choice
- A music file named foo.mp3 or foo.wav put under folder foo
Normally, an appropriate song's length should be 90~150s. But it's not mandatory.
- (optional) A cover file named foo.ico put under folder foo
- (optional) A snatch file named foo.clip.mp3 put under folder foo
Normally, an appropriate snatch's length should be 15~25s. But it's not mandatory.
Work with Skadi
Skadi's workshop is a beatmap maker for Ark Beat
Skadi's workshop has two interfaces:
- start interface
- record interface
1. start interface
- Escape : exit the tool
- W : switch to previous song
- S : switch to next song
- Space : start recording notes (go to record interface)
- Should the notes with suffix .ark1 or .ark2 do exist, a warning regarding whether to overwrite would pop up
- Should the music with suffix .mp3 or .wav not exist, a warning would pop up
2. record interface
There will be a pop up window at the end of record
- Escape : return to start interface
- Backspace : restart the music to record from scratch
- F / D / S : record notes on the upper track
- The button with up arrow reacts
- J / K / L : record notes on the lower track
- The button with down arrow reacts
After the record is down, just play it with Ark Beat to try out your own masterpiece!
The songs just won't play?
You may encounter the issue that some songs in the format of mp3 or wav just won't play in Ark Beat, which once bothered us so much.
It turned out that Windows' poor audio decoder might be the one to blame.
Therefore, you are highly, highly, highly recommended to install third-party decoders like LAVFilters.
Maintainers
Acknowledgments
We refer to these games as we are big fans of them.