Osu!

Author: Samuel Jin
Today we play a beatmap game called Osu. Beatmap games are games where players click and perform actions with a mouse and keyboard that match the beats and sounds of a song. There are a wide amount of beatmaps in Osu that players can choose from and this game will most likely have the player's favourite songs to play against. There are varying difficulties of one specific song which will set the speed of the beat and the actions that need to be performed during the song. For example an easy difficulty of a specific song will have a very slow click rate on the beat. But if a hard difficulty is chosen for the exact same song, then the click rate will be significantly higher as the player will have to click not only the main beat but many other sounds in the songs. If the player misses too many beats and sounds, then the game will end resulting to a loss. Osu is a very addicting game as when a player finishes a beatmap, there are thousands more available to them to play and finish. Furthermore a ranking system of ranked beatmaps can motivate players to become better at the game to compete against other players. The game has become so popular, that there are dedicated drawing tablets for Osu, as a mouse and keyboard can be slow and tiresome to use for high difficulty beatmaps. The drawing tablet allows players to move the cursor quickly to hit complex beats and sounds.