4-Panel Footprint is excited to announce Pulsen’s Update 3 released this Saturday September 3, bringing with it more music, a new game mode, a new noteskin, in-game play instructions, major UI updates, as well as various polish and fixes. Pulsen is a music and rhythm game currently in Steam Early Access with core gameplay involving hitting four directional arrows to the beat of the music as they pass by the screen.

7 new songs have been added to Pulsen, for a total of 85 songs in game. Songs include music from the rhythm dungeon crawler Crypt of the Necrodancer, a dance remix of the Super Hexagon video game soundtrack, a track by the popular chiptune/electronic artist Shirobon, and more.

New song additions:

1) Crypteque from Crypt of the Necrodancer - Danny Baranowsky
2) Figurehead - Rotteen + Emoticon
3) Mausoleum Mash from Crypt of the Necrodancer - Danny Baranowsky
4) Signs from There Came An Echo - Big Giant Circles feat Aureylian
5) This Love - Shirobon
6) CNTL ALT BELIEVE - Losstarot
7) Super Hexagon - DustZallax orig Chipzel

Workout Mode has been added to Pulsen. Like Play mode, it can be played solo or with a second player. Workout Mode gets into the action quickly, and has almost no downtime between playing songs. The player selects a specified difficulty and then chooses one of three random songs that appear. The song can always be played to the end in Workout Mode, there is no “failing” like there is in the default Play mode. As soon as the song is finished, the player returns to the Workout screen with another three random songs to select from. Songs played, time played, average difficulty, and overall intensity (called Sweat Rating) is shown, with the player’s best record kept track of between play sessions.

A new noteskin, called Slingshot, makes its debut. Slingshot’s colorful animation and more classic arrow shape provide even more options to customize how game looks.

A How To Play feature has been added to make sure beginners get up to speed quickly and veterans can quickly go for a refresher on a few of the finer points of gameplay.

Pulsen’s options menus have had an overhaul. Not only are things more clear than ever, there is also additional functionality like an option to not end a song when the lifebar runs out to allow players to enjoy the game more casually.

There are also numerous smaller additions, revisions, minor chart fixes, and bug fixes.

Pulsen is available now on Steam Early Access (http://store.steampowered.com/app/340960), with a full release date TBD.

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