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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2016
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Gregory B. Lopiccolo, Brookline, MA (US);
Ryan Challinor, Cambridge, MA (US);
HARMONIX MUSIC SYSTEMS, INC., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed at systems, methods, and apparatus for implementing a rhythm-action game having an improvisational fill feature. The rhythm-action game can provide a musical track having at least one section that can be varied. The rhythm-action game can also provide a database having a plurality of fills, wherein each fill includes a soundtrack and a set of cues. During run-time, the rhythm-action game can select, for each section in the musical track that can be varied, a fill from the plurality of fills. In some embodiments, this selection can be based on various characterizing parameters to ensure that the fill is a good fit for the musical track. The rhythm-action game can also display a set of visual cues associated with the selected fill, and to evaluate whether received user input substantially corresponds to the displayed cues.