Heaven Studio
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"Heaven Studio is a tool to create playable Rhythm Heaven custom remixes, with many customization options. |
January 22, 2024 - v1.0.1
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Heaven Studio is an open-source fangame based on Rhythm Heaven series. It aims to allow players to create their own Rhythm Heaven remixes by faithfully recreating every official Rhythm Heaven Rhythm Game in high definition. It was formally released on January 15, 2024 as the "Lush Release". The program was taken down as a result of a DMCA takedown request by Nintendo in June 2024.
Editor
Heaven Studio's editor was created to allow users to easily create their own Rhythm Heaven remixes and levels, featuring recreations of various minigames from across the series. It also featured fangames from other parts of the community, most notably Meat Grinder, Rhythm Sōmen and Trick on the Class.
Development
Heaven Studio was created and maintained by community volunteers under the RHeavenStudio name, forked from another project, called Rhythm Heaven Mania. Starpelly began the project as a personal Unity project in 2021. After the project was abandoned, it was forked by Megaminerjenny as Heaven Studio, who would eventually pass ownership to minenice. The source code and program downloads were hosted on GitHub, with a "nightly" build for each code update.
The development was largely handled in the program's Discord server, where contributors could share redrawn, upscaled textures for each minigame, as well as work on programming and animation.
The first stable build, v1.0.0, was released on January 15, 2024, titled as the "Lush Release". A patch, v1.0.1, was released a week later. This release contained 52 minigames, with 49 being from the Rhythm Heaven series, and the other three being community-made fangames. While focused on level creation, it featured a set of pack-in levels to show off the program's features, including individual levels for the fangames, as well as Remixes using the original Rhythm Heaven minigames.
In June 2024, Nintendo took down the GitHub repository with a DMCA notice. As a result, minenice, the project lead, chose to take the knowledge he learned with Heaven Studio and use it to create a framework for users to create their own rhythm games in Unity, which is still in development.
Gallery
Heaven Studio's Title Screen
Heaven Studio's Editor
Ditto, but in the Nightly Build
Meat Grinder
Rhythm Sōmen
Trick of the Class
The Cannery (Nightly Build)
Totem Climb (Nightly Build)
Trivia
- All of the fangames in Heaven Studio's "Lush Release" originate from other sources. All of them have been redone.
- Meat Grinder was originally a mod for Rhythm Heaven Megamix, made by Seanski2[1].
- Rhythm Sōmen was an old Japanese flash game, made by Forte1st[2].
- Trick on the Class was a minigame from a Rhythm Heaven mobile rip-off called "Rhythm Heaven-Fever". The version of the game in Heaven Studio uses newly made music unlike the original version, which reuses the one for Monkey Watch[3].