Rhythm Doctor Early Access Release Trailer 

🎵 Music - Bomb-Sniffing Pomeranian by stinkbug & coda
📹 Additional trailer editing by Not El Donte (notRat has me on his list again#4404)
Rhythm Doctor is in Early Access now:
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Rhythm Doctor has actually already been in early access for almost a year! We just finally got round to updating the trailer instead of using the 2017 one. Now people can see all these new levels and polish, instead of Super Battleworn Insomniac only.
Rhythm games can be especially hard to make traditional trailers for, because the gameplay clips tend to look really similar, it's just notes moving on a screen.. So when rhythm game developers make trailers, they usually focus on special key art or characters (see Arcaea or Rayark trailers for examples). For Rhythm Doctor, we at least have some levels that have unique visual things happening (like Nicole throwing coffee, or Samurai jumping over beans), so it was more possible to stick to gameplay clips. Still, we generally avoided the multi-row patient levels because those have the ECGs taking up too much of the screen.
Then we also had to decide whether to keep the audio from each of the gameplay clips to make it a montage, or to have one song over them all. We decided on the latter, which means we had to rerecord all the gameplay with the trailer song's bpm so it all syncs nicely. So none of the gameplay clips are actually of the level's original bpm. Our sound designer s9menine then added extra fun sound effects on top too that aren't in the game. This trailer is all lies!
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Frequently Asked Questions
When is the game going to be done?
This year, probably, most likely. Squeezing out more one-button interesting gameplay from this tube of Rhythm Doctor is getting harder. We really have to roll up the tube from the end now. But we can do it and you will get your last squeeze of fresh gameplay.
When is the full OST coming? Spotify?
Extremely soon now!! We spent 12 months deciding whether to cut the One Shift More conversation from the OST version of the song or not. Do you want to hear the iconic line 'you havent broken your tailbone and your hip is intact' every time you play the song? Let us know, this decision has ruined us (just kidding, but for real we know you're waiting, soon!!)
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