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Performous lets you perform great songs, improve your musical skills and simply have fun! No special hardware required, you may play guitar on your PC keyboard, sing on your laptop microphone and so on. If you do have SingStar microphones, Guitar Hero or Rock Band instruments, or dance pads, just plug them into your USB ports and start rocking!

Performous is free software and once you click that download button, you will find out that open source doesn't need to suck. In fact, many users keep praising us about how we beat even those commercial games.

We constantly strive to improve the gameplay and the algorithms the game is built on. Performous does not attempt to catch up on other games and clone them but instead we listen to user feedback and try to find the best solutions. The game is developed by a relatively large team of skilled people but we are always looking for new recruits. If you think you can improve something or if you just wish to build from source, click the C++ button.

Features:

Vocals, guitars (lead/rhythm/bass), drums and dancing with multiplayer support
Extremely good singing pitch detection (usable even with laptop or webcam microphones)
Intelligent gameplay determines what the player attempted to do
Avoid accidental hammer-ons / pull-offs, among other things
No more "wtf, I didn't make any mistake there" feeling
Controllers are autodetected (no need to configure keys)
Song formats: FoF, UltraStar, SingStar XML, StepMania
C++ for high performance, rapid development and solid code
OpenGL 2.1 and SVG for nice graphics
Free software, licensed under GNU GPL version 2 or later