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Notes from building a rhythm game in the open. Most of it, so far, is about the game that got us started.

1. 01Beatstar shut down — what to play nowA tour of the rhythm games you can install today, with store figures we measured ourselves and a note on what 1 Beat borrows from each.
2. 02Beatstar on iPhone: where it actually stands todayWhy download directories still show a listing for it, and what the icon sitting on your home screen can and cannot do now.
3. 03Beatstar private servers on iPhone, honestly explainedThe community-run route back to the original: a single file on Android, a weekly re-signing job with a computer on iOS.
4. 04Is Beatstar coming back?The short answer, the reason the team behind it moved on, and what became of accounts, purchases and songs.