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Thank you for the response! I'll be sure to look out for 1.1 when the time comes, and it'll be exciting to work with the editor and try my hand at some custom charts then. 1/n snapping should especially open up a lot at once...!

I played through the OST side - while the vector graphic style can feel slightly non-uniform for 3D graphics with its varying widths coupled with lack of anti-aliasing, the core (ha) conceit of the gameplay itself is solid with a lot of potential, and the music is very atmospherically on-point. A few thoughts:

• During play, lack of scroll-speed adjustment means it's often hard to get a personal level of comfort with higher density charts, especially with COREplus's style of notes slowing as they approach the judgment line.
• The editor, as offered, is impractical to the point of near-impossibility without at least the ability to navigate by your selected snap - I was ready to attempt a workaround of placing as many notes as I might possibly need and selecting them to move them backwards, but I found you can't select individual notes if there are multiple at once on the same tick... I feel that first and foremost, the ability to scroll and iteratively edit according to your BPM and snap, without being locked to a hardcoded 500ms-step, would make the charting process fundamentally possible. After that, being able to select individual notes of groups would be much appreciated. (I understand there's the option of "play it to chart it", but the editor inputs are nothing like gameplay inputs, not to mention it runs counter to conscious design and experimentation, as well as takes so much time...)
  • (Further to that, LALT makes playback fire when alt-tabbing out of the window.)
• There's also the hardcoded assumptions that beats only subdivide to powers of 2 (i.e. no compound time, triplets, etc.), BPM never changes, barlines align purely to 4/4, etc. - but I understand that those would necessarily come later.

As a fan of the BIT.TRIP series myself, it's extremely exciting to see a work take inspiration, and I think COREplus really achieves something of its own. I look forward to what comes, and to being able to work with it once charting is truly opened up.