Project Heartbeat

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Attention, rhythm gamers! I'm delighted to announce that "Zoë (feat. Beth)" has been added to Project Heartbeat Keep the beat in this newcomer song! Project Heartbeat is available on Steam Early Access: store.steampowered.com/app/1… Written by: @OnlineLizard

Fearmongering about piracy is an escapegoat for incompetence If I ever make a project and piracy ""kills"" it that means I fucked up and failed to get the product in the hands of people who wanted it at a reasonable price

Learn all about the work-in-progress redesign for Project Heartbeat's UI, as well as improvements to the network infrastructure and the android port in our latest community post! store.steampowered.com/news/… #Steam #Vocaloid

On the topic of AI assistance in coding: (do note PH does not use any LLM-assisted code, so don't panic just yet) I know this is the PH account and yada yada, but I thought I had to give my two cents on AI slop coding. It saddens me to see how people conflate vibe coding with AI assisted engineering, most of these new decomp-based ports coming out are done by people who have no idea about the code the machine is writing. I also think there are plenty of reasons to dislike AI that don't require making things up. I don't use AI assist much outside my day job where I'm forced to, but I think you have to treat LLMs like very dumb junior programmers that you have to be constantly on top of, you must be a seasoned programmer to ensure the code they make is not ass or has some hidden problem, you basically have to act like a conventional lead programmer, I do not leaving the machine to just write and commit shit without any supervision is a good idea at all, every single line should at least be superficially audited by a person. Hell, those decomps are perfect examples of good use of LLMs, the base decomps are often LLM assisted, but they are done by people who know what they are doing, I myself have contributed to a decomp for a very popular GameCube game and I have seen this first hand (I hate you MetroWerks CodeWarrior compiler). On the other hand, the ports based on those decomps are often entirely written by AI, resulting in unoptimized code that's harder to port around and can cause future problems when trying to mod it or upgrade it, just try the ssbm port for 3ds and vita, those systems should on paper have no problem running those games, yet they run like ass and are unstable (and are bad ports for complicated technical reasons I won't go into). If the machine is writing code you would be unable to write yourself if given enough time then you're a dumb vibe coder, and your code will never be good. I think some code is fundamental to the soul of a game, for example integration of middleware like steamworks or setting up CI isn't really going to affect the soul of the game, so it's fine to use it for that. But for fundamental mechanics of the game, I think you do need the human factor to make it good, the parts that give the game a "feel" are the ones that give it the soul Of course implementing the Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi distance algorithm is something you can delegate to an LLM because it's a mathematical construct and it has exactly one behaviour. And of course no art in the game should be AI generated (and indeed, in PH none is), that's just stupid and disrespectful, art is the biggest part of the soul of a game. In general, if you're a seasoned developer and use AI as a force multiplier I think you will be fine, you have to use it in moderation. My biggest personal problem with AI is relying on companies that are subsidizing the pricing of the system at this time and when the AI market crashes you will be left with nothing. That's why you should continue to become a better programmer through training and knowledge seeking. Of course there are other concerns about AI, such as energy usage, the memory price crisis and more, and I hope the technology develops in such a way we can finally run these things locally instead of relying on renting a rich company's machinery. I do suspect the memory price crisis is actually intentional and at least partially a result of memory makers performing illegal price fixing. In my particular case (again, not on PH) it has helped me push through the tedious parts of projects so I can focus on the parts that matter. I know I'm very late on everything PH related, but I'd rather keep working slowly than getting lazy.

Based woman @Kyuuon will be giving out a bunch of Project Heartbeat keys on her stream, please check her out: twitch.tv/kyuuon

To celebrate Spain's second football world cup, the game has been discounted to a 67% discount in honor of Ferran Torres' number, 7! Miku returns home (vocaloid was developed in spain) Go grab the game! (we are spanish btw) store.steampowered.com/app/1…

Project Heartbeat, the mega based rhythm game is 65% off for the #Steam Summer Sale!!! With Steam Workshop support, a professional grade chart editor and more! 🚨🚨 IT'S 65% OFF??? 🚨🚨 Tell your friends, tell your dog! store.steampowered.com/app/1…

The only time the game gets attention is when I do some clickbaity joke like the NFT incident or the Ubisoft acquisition Am I gonna have to do something unspeakable like clubbing an old lady with a baby seal so people will know about the game after I end up in a Google dockey?

🚨 NEW ANTI-AI BOT MEASURE 🚨 Some bad actors (AI/non-AI web scrappers) have been DDOS-ing the Project Heartbeat website & backend for a long time. Today we've finally introduced Anubis to stop them, with the power of anime girls, it will help fight these bots!

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Project Heartbeat mentioned! Sad about the figure tho