Sound Horizons

Devlog

• Accessibility Update
  September 30, 2024 by Itooh

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  I'm very glad that some of you enjoy Sound Horizons! The feedbacks I've received were very encouraging and insightful. One critic that came frequently was that the game is too hard, especially near th... Continue reading

  
• Sound Horizons is out today!
  September 18, 2024 by Itooh

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  After nearly 2 years of development, I'm happy to announce that Sound Horizons is released today! You can play it for free on Windows or Linux. As of today, the game consists only of one level and 3 m... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #12 - Score in a procedural world
  July 08, 2024 by Itooh#rhythm-game

  Lately I've been working on something that I initially didn't want to include in the game: a score system . Sound Horizons could indeed benefit from a bit of replayability. There is one big question t... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #11 - Menus Part 2
  June 17, 2024 by Itooh

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  #sound horizons, #UX

  So this past month I continued working on the game's menus. I haven't talked much about them here, mostly because I've covered most of it on my video devlog. If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch... Continue reading

  
• Announce trailer and official store pages
  June 06, 2024 by Itooh

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  Sound Horizons has now a public store page on Itch, as well as Steam! It even has a release date: September 2024 ! I haven't posted a lot on this devlog lately. It turns out that keeping a video devlo... Continue reading

  
• Sound Horizons Beta is available for play-test
  April 29, 2024 by Itooh

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  I've released a new video devlog! The informations are more or less the same than my previous post here, but I discuss more the game-design and difficulty balancing. It's also a good occasion to see t... Continue reading
• Devlog #10 - Loops and circles
  April 03, 2024 by Itooh

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  #Unity, #Wwise, #UX, #procedural, #rhythm-game, #sound horizons

  Lately I've finally been able to work on the game on a long stretch! I've made a lot of progress in just a few days. Which means that I have tons of new content to share with you! Let's get started. T... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #9 - Shader recipe for low-poly mountains in Unity
  March 15, 2024 by Itooh#3D, #Unity, #shader

  Here is some kind of a "good" news: I've remade the procedural generation of the mountain (again)! You might ask, how is this a good news? Wasn't this done already? Well, yes, but if you've read the d... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #8 - Particles everywhere
  February 11, 2024 by Itooh#3D, #Unity, #procedural, #shader, #rhythm-game

  So, big update for the development of Sound Horizons: the environments are done! All 6 layers have been designed, and they even are animated now. Let's first take a look at the last two new scenes. En... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #7 - Mixing 2D with 3D
  December 17, 2023 by Itooh

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  #Unity, #UX, #rhythm-game

  The year's end is busy, but I've still got some time to work on the game! Last time, I was planning to keep working on the 3D environments. Turned out I was able to work on the fourth layer, but then... Continue reading

  
• Sound Horizons Devlog #6 - The Rabbit Hole of Shaders
  November 02, 2023 by Itooh#shader, #3D, #Unity

  The last month of development was dedicated once again to visual improvements on the environments. More precisely, I did a lot of experiments with an exciting new toy : shaders ! Making Shaders in Uni... Continue reading

  
• Sound Horizons Devlog #5 - The Shapes of Mountains
  October 08, 2023 by Itooh

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  #Unity, #procedural, #3d, #sound horizons

  After a series of entries dedicated to sounds, I finally have visuals for Sound Horizons! Huge progress has been made during these last two weeks. In this post, I'll talk about procedural generation,... Continue reading

  
• Sound Horizons Devlog #4 - Generative harmonies
  September 24, 2023 by Itooh

  Hi! How was your summer? It's been a very long while since the last update on Sound Horizons! There are several reasons for that. First, as I announced last time, I participated in two game jams, the... Continue reading

  
• Sound Horizons #3 - Complete song from start to finish
  June 05, 2023 by Itooh#music, #rhythm-game

  Great news: I've written all the layers of Sound Horizons' song and I've completed all its sections ! I'm really happy on how it sounds, so I'm sharing a preview with you, along with details on the wr... Continue reading

  
• Sound Horizons #2 - Writing evolutive music
  May 13, 2023 by Itooh#music, #composition, #level-design, #sound horizons

  Alright, it's been a month since the previous entry . I since started to write music for the game. My intentions were to complete it before showing you the result. But, without surprise, it turned out... Continue reading

  
• Sound Horizons - Devlog #1
  March 20, 2023 by Itooh

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  #sound horizons, #Unity, #Wwise, #devlog

  Here is the announcement of my new project: Sound Horizons! It's a procedural rhythm game, based on one of my previous creation, One Colorful Grid . I've recently finished the alpha version of the gam... Continue reading