Seto wrote:The color is about the performance. Green for high score. Yellow for middle score. Red for low score.
Yeah, I just went back and noticed I didn't really describe those numbers.
The idea is that you want to learn a song. And I want Synthesia to be a good motivator/indicator for how well you are doing. Ideally when you achieve a full 100 score for a song, that means you know it and can play both hands at full speed with few to zero mistakes. (We'll see how close we actually get to that.
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So, if you play the left hand in melody practice and can do the entire thing with zero mistakes, you'll get the full 15 points for that button. Do it again for right and then both(!) and you'll already be up to 50. (15+15+20 for both the melody and rhythm lines is what I'm thinking at the moment.) Doing that "watch the song" thing gives you a freebie 5 points (and will also be triggered when you play any of the other modes anyway).
I didn't want to force online recital to be too large a component of your score (especially since it's just sort of a no-Undo version of rhythm practice), so for now I am pitching it as a sort of extra credit. For doing well and making few-mistakes (at full speed!) you can squeeze an extra 5 per hand and 10 for both out of your score. It will cap at 100 though.
Still, a good chunk of the hard part in reaching 100 will be in the rhythm practice section. To get full points you'll have to be at full speed the entire time and make very few mistakes. Doing that for both hands simultaneously is kind of intimidating. I'm considering widening the "Gameplay.NoteWindowUs" setting a little by default so this isn't so punishing. Right now Synthesia is pretty fickle about those timings.
Again, the goal is to turn all of the work you're doing on a song into something you can measure, to help keep you motivated. Just like Melody Practice normalizes every song to a score between 0 and 10000, this will effectively normalize ALL the modes combined into a 0 to 100 metric.
That little score will be shown in the song library and in the hierarchical view (that I haven't finished designing yet). In the hierarchical view, it's basically the only thing you'll see and the song list will be sorted by those points by default. (Your "best" songs will be at the top. Scrolling through them to get to the songs you're working on will give you a chance to be proud of all your hard work.)