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One of my favorite Nintendo Wii games at the moment is Guitar Hero III, where you play songs using a guitarshaped Wiimote thingie. I'm sure many of you are familiar with the game already. Since not every office in the world is lucky enough to actually have a Wii, and fewer still are equipped with such a guitar or two, I thought I'd share a game similar to Guitar Hero that was created for the Assembly 2006 Game Development Competition, it's called Frets on Fire.

What's neat about this game you ask? Well...you don't need a guitar to play it, you use the keyboard (optionally held upside down and with a custom strap). Also the game uses SVG files for some of the graphics. As if that wasn't enough you can add songs to it (oh, and it's compatible with Guitar Hero I and Guitar Hero II songs), you can modify the source code since it's open source, you can edit the graphic files and it works on all major desktop operating systems.

Enjoy!