Fade

Overview

Learning an instrument is a lifelong endeavor. As you grow, you move deeper and deeper into the piano's lower range, and become more deeply attached to music.

Gameplay video

Because of feedback that the game is *very* difficult, I've uploaded a gameplay video for people who have trouble beating the game but still want to experience the story. Story spoilers!

https://youtu.be/w_n4dL94al0

Controls

Use the number keys (1234 and 7890) to hit the notes as they fall into place.

Install

Windows

Download and extract the executable from Itch.

Windows Defender hates pyinstaller executables with a burning passion, so you may have to whitelist the folder containing the zip before you can extract it. Otherwise, Windows will eat the executable and you will be sad.

Here's how to whitelist a folder:

- Open Windows Security (you can search it in the search bar)

- Go to the *Virus & threat protection* tab

- Scroll down to *Virus & threat protection settings*, and hit *Manage settings*

- Scroll down to *Exclusions* and hit *Add or remove exclusions*

- Add an exclusion for the folder that contains the zip file

Mac and Linux

The build included is just for Windows, but you can run the game from source if you install Python and PyGame.

- Install the latest version of Python from the Python website (the game requires at least 3.7)

- Install PyGame by typing `pip3 install pygame` in the command line

- Clone or download the source code from the linked Github repository

- Use Python to run game.py

About

This game was developed in Python, using PyGame. The audio was made with Musescore, SFXR, and Audacity. The art was made with Paint.NET.