Witch's Lounge Rhythm Game Redesigns Around Keyboard Input
The game's development shows a doujin team repeatedly discarding systems that felt unplayable or derivative, ending on a keyboard-only design that players reportedly recognize as distinct from Groove Coaster.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Korean doujin team Wolsang Studio showed Witch's Lounge at BIC2026. The rhythm game has players draw magic circles by moving a witch in eight directions with WASD keys and pressing Space for notes. The team leader said the game started as a mouse-based title that proved too difficult, then became too similar to Groove Coaster before settling on its current style.
Wolsang Studio, an 18-person Korean doujin circle, brought a playable demo of Witch's Lounge to BIC2026. The rhythm game casts the player as a witch drawing magic circles by moving in eight directions with WASD keys, holding or pressing Space for notes, and combining both for simultaneous inputs.
Team leader Park Ji-seop told 4Gamer the project went through several identities. It began as a casual game in the vein of Vampire Survivors, then a rhythm-based survivor title that came too close to Crypt of the NecroDancer, then a mouse-and-keyboard rhythm game that was too hard for anyone to play. The current keyboard-only format emerged after a prototype that resembled Groove Coaster too closely.
The full game will add customer-specific stories and unlock songs as the player grows the shop. The demo covers only the prologue.
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