. Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux. April 23, 2015. PS4, PS Vita.

February 2, 2016. iOS. June 30, 2016. Xbox One. February 10, 2017. Nintendo Switch. February 1, 2018,Mode(s)Crypt of the NecroDancer is a video game developed and published by Canadian independent game studio Brace Yourself Games.

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The game takes fundamental elements of a roguelike dungeon exploration game, and adds a beat-matching rhythm game set to an original soundtrack written. The player's actions are most effective when moving the character set to the beat of the current song and are impaired when they miss a beat, so it is necessary to learn the rhythmic patterns that the various creatures follow.

The mixed-genre game includes the ability to import custom music, and the option to use a instead of traditional controllers or the keyboard. The game was released for, and in April 2015, being co-published by, for the and in February 2016, for the in February 2017, and for in February 2018. Crypt of the NecroDancer Pocket Edition, developed for, was released in June 2016.A crossover title, featuring music and elements from, was released in June 2019 for the. Contents.Gameplay Crypt of the NecroDancer is a top-down 2D game in which the player controls one of a selection of characters to explore several levels of an underground dungeon that are procedurally generated, similar to games. Players can manipulate their character by using either a, a keyboard, or a gamepad. Unlike traditional roguelikes, the player can only have their character move or attack if they perform the action on the of the music. As with many rhythm games, each successful beat match boosts a coin scoring multiplier.

Failure to match the beat does not directly harm the character in most situations, but does reset the scoring multiplier and may cause the character to be harmed by a nearby monster if they are in their attack path. The character can also be harmed by moving into a monster's attack. When the character's health meter empties, the game is over. Monsters move according to predetermined patterns which the player must learn in order to attack and avoid damage. Crypt of the NecroDancer screenshot of the 0.244alpha version showing Cadence, a playable character (middle) next to two blue slimes (left), a titanium broadsword (right) as well as some dropped gold coins.As the player explores, they will collect new weapons, armor, usable items, and treasure; the player's inventory is automatically managed by the game. Defeating monsters yields a number of coins that can be used to purchase items from shops within the dungeon. There are also diamonds that are used for purchasing permanent enhancements to the character's abilities in the game's lobby.

The dungeon is divided into four zones of four levels each. The first three levels of each zone require the player to find the exit and defeat a mini-boss to unlock it; the fourth level is a larger boss character that must be defeated to progress further. In addition, the player is limited to the length of the song to complete the level; when the song ends, they are automatically sent to the next level through a trapdoor, forgoing the rewards of completing the level. The player returns to the game's lobby area after dying or optionally at any time, losing any items, gold, or other equipment, though retaining any diamonds they have found. The lobby features shops where the player can spend those diamonds for permanent upgrades before restarting the game or, if they have completed any zones, accessing the next available zone. The player can also access other game modes, such as 'All Zones Mode' in which the player must make their way through the entire crypt without dying.

The player initially has access to the main character, Cadence, but new characters with different modes of play also become available as the player completes certain goals: for example, the monk character receives one free item in each shop, but immediately dies if he touches gold. Special trainers and other beneficial non-player characters can be rescued from certain zones, and once rescued, will provide services to the player from the main lobby, such as letting the player train against enemies and bosses, or providing items that the player can buy with diamonds and use on their next journey into the crypt. The songs in the game's soundtracks are ordered in ascending tempo across zones and levels, making deeper levels more challenging than earlier ones. The user additionally has the ability to set custom music for each of the game's levels. Plot In the main game, the player controls Cadence, the daughter of a famed treasure hunter who has gone missing. In searching for him, she falls into a crypt controlled by the NecroDancer, who steals Cadence's heart and forces her to challenge his minions to retrieve it. She is forced to fight through the crypt's dungeon with her actions tied to the beat of the music and her heart, so as to stay alive and defeat the NecroDancer.Near the heart of the crypt, Cadence finds one of the NecroDancer's minions named 'Dead Ringer'.

She defeats him, revealing that it was her missing father and frees him from the NecroDancer's control, allowing him to help her defeat the NecroDancer. They take the NecroDancer's magical golden and use it to kill him, and then use its power to resurrect Cadence's dead mother, Melody. However, they discover that the lute is cursed; Melody must keep playing it forever to sustain her life, but the lute will gradually consume her humanity just as it did to the NecroDancer. Melody enters the crypt in search of answers and a way to break the curse of the lute.When Melody reaches the end of the crypt, she uses the Golden Lute to resurrect the NecroDancer and find answers, but he attacks and Melody defeats him. The NecroDancer tries to flee, but is cast into a crevice by Aria (Melody's mother) who was lying in a coffin with a dagger in her chest and is brought back to life by the Lute.

Aria reveals that she knows how to break the curse of the lute, but was betrayed by the NecroDancer and left for dead. Intending to finish what she started, she begins her ascent out of the crypt in search of a shrine that will destroy the lute once and for all.When Aria reaches the shrine, she is attacked by the lute itself, which mutates into a large monster in an attempt to save itself from destruction.

After defeating the lute's monster form, Aria sacrifices her life to destroy the cursed instrument, returning Melody to full life and allowing her to return to her family, who later bury Aria together.Development Crypt of the NecroDancer was a creation of Ryan Clark, inspired by thinking about the traditional structure of games. Clark found that the player-character's death in roguelikes often occurred due to conditions created by the procedural-generation of the game as opposed to player's skill, and wanted to make a game that was more 'fair' to the player to escape or avoid seemingly difficult situations. Clark considered how games like put the player more in control of their fate, as he viewed it as 'a game that is really hard but you can still improve. If you die, you still know it was your fault' whereas in other games a player might die because 'the game is simply unfair.'

However, Clark also found that removing the turn-based nature of roguelike in games like Spelunky or lost some of the flavor of roguelikes, and sought a way to maintain the turn-based nature. They came up with the idea of using turns where each turn lasted only a short amount of real time; as such the 'lack of time to think renders impossible the careful study and patience of the expert player'. With this concept, Clark recognized that this was similar to beat-matching, and quickly refined the concept around the rhythm-based roguelike game. The title came after discovering this concept, and plays on the pun of the word '.Initially, Clark programmed the game to require the player to be relatively accurate to the music's beat, similar to the accuracy used by rhythm games.

He found this timing to be too tense, as the player was more likely to miss the short accuracy window while stressed and would lead to the character being harmed, creating more stress on the player. Instead, he greatly expanded the accuracy window, as well as programmed a simple autocalibration system that recognized if the player was ahead or behind the beat to some degree as to match the player's current stress levels, both aimed to help make the game more fair and remove player frustration. Furthermore, he found that when he had the player move on the beat and monsters on the half-beat, the game played too closely to a roguelike and instead had all characters move on the beat, with the player's action having priority, which while posed a few drawbacks he had to program around, felt much more natural to the game.The Beat tracking algorithm used in the game is known as Multifeature Beat tracker.

It is implemented in the Essentia framework and determines the positions of the beats in order to estimate the beats per minute, which is then used to set the tempo for the game.The game was developed using the Monkey X programming language.The game was released on Steam on July 30, 2014, using public feedback to improve the title, with full release on April 23, 2015. The game was released for the and on February 2, 2016.

An version, with support for both screen and Bluetooth controllers, was released on June 30, 2016. An version of the game was released on February 10, 2017. A version was released on February 1, 2018, which includes a new character exclusive to the platform as well as co-operative support.

The developers had approached Nintendo about providing Switch-unique DLC based on Nintendo's properties for this release. Instead, this led to further discussions to make a wholly new crossover game, with Cadence joined by and in the world of.The developers announced plans to release a prequel expansion, Crypt of the NecroDancer: Amplified, to the game in September 2016.

Theyintroduced this expansion through Early Access on Steam starting on January 24, 2017 to get feedback during development. The expansion includes an additional zone, a new boss named Fortissimole, a new protagonist called Nocturna, new non-main characters named Diamond, Mary and Tempo, a new soundtrack by OverClocked Remix, and new items for the game, including for the protagonist. Music The game's soundtrack was composed by, designed to vary in speed and rhythmic complexity the farther the player gets within the game. Baranowsky's friend dubbed the new genre of music 'Spookhouse Rock'. This section needs expansion.

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As a roguelike, Crypt of the Necrodancer is already tough. But what speedrunner SpootyBiscuit recently pulled off is remarkable, and no one has done it.

Not even the developers can really believe it happened.You choose from a variety of characters to play as in the rhythm-based Crypt of the Necrodancer, each giving the player slightly different attributes. Some give you benefits, such as allowing the player to move against the beat of the music, while others make the game harder, such as instant death upon collecting gold.Coda is on another level, though. I’ll let programmer Ryan Clark explain.“You die if you miss any beat,” he said, “you die if you touch any gold (and gold is dropped by every enemy), you die if you get hit at all, you are stuck with the most basic weapon in the game, and the entire game runs at double the usual speed. That means for a boss battle like ‘Death Metal,’ you have to move at 350 bpm (the track is normally 175bpm, but for Coda it is doubled) so you have to make almost 6 inputs per second while playing flawlessly.”Beating the game with Coda is meant to be the ultimate challenge for Crypt of the Necrodancer players. Not even Clark has beaten the game with Coda.“I honestly thought that I was being kind of a bastard and that no one would ever beat it,” he said.It’s not like Clark is bad at the game, either.

Clark managed to hold the world record for the main character during most of the game’s early access run, despite players constantly nipping at his heels.“I have complete knowledge of how the game works,” he said, “because I designed it and can see the source code. Despite these advantages, Coda is unbeatable for me. I named the achievement for beating Coda, ‘Impossible, Right?’ because of this.”To date, only 14 people have beaten the game with Coda—12 on PC, 2 on consoles. Speedrunner SpootyBiscuit pulled it off in front of 100,000 viewers during Awesome Games Done Quick earlier this year:“It happened at 7am my time, and I was in bed watching it on my phone with my two kids,” said Clark. “It was a very surreal experience!”But that wasn’t enough for SpootyBiscuit. Instead, he started focusing on a variation of the Coda run with low%.

In order to pull it off, that means the player cannot pick up any items. No bombs, no rings, no spells. Nothing.It shouldn’t be possible, but then again, we say that about speedrunners all the time. If you tell them it can’t happen, they’ll find a way to make it happen. And after loads of trial, error, and failed runs, SpootyBiscuit recently pulled it off.Incredible!“He has defeated my game utterly,” said Clark, “and I couldn’t be happier about it.”For the moment, SpootyBiscuit is taking a break. But like any good speedrunner, he’s also pretty sure he could get his time down.

Good luck, SpootyBiscuit.