Spelunker

every circle in the middle would not make it "more of a reading challenge" fyi it'd just be dumb and about reading approach circles or memorizing the rhythm in the same spot which takes away a lot of the actual interesting play out of the map

I am unsure what is actually interesting to play out of the map besides the reading then? It’s the same with it all being circular.

then this map is probably not for you which is fine

elaborating a bit, it's mostly to do with timing your aim which differs a lot from a conventional map with "constant" rhythm where your aim is already basically on a metronome

Putting all the circles in the center, like in Fall in the dark, would actually make the reading easier, not harder in the way that u think. The gimmick of the map is memorization, to create an experience similar to the source game material, the arrangement of the circles is just my chosen implementation

That is true it isn’t really my cup of tea, and that does makes more sense. That movement is forced anyways by the placement, where my confusion is.

Regarding memorization I saw the NC message, in order to make it similar to the game I can see why it is memorization based, quite a cool idea. Most of that seem to come from the low AR and some of the rhythm, not really the placement.

the placement is made as such because with stacked notes, you have much more detailed visual cues when it comes to rhythm gap. just like what others have said, stacked notes gives away the information of the rhythm based on the approach circle, with wider gap meaning larger rhythm gap, and vice versa.

having them non stacked makes the reading difficulty increases as you have less visual cue of when the notes will actually land, since they do not overlap so there is not much that you can easily infer from looking at the approach circle, thus making the memory aspect of the map even stronger.

hopefully that gives more idea about why i think the placement is pretty clever despite it being a very simple concept ^^

I must be too uninformed to get it. I understand what you’re all saying but I don’t understand why it could be justified over other memorization like SV for example. Regarding the stacking although would make it easier to read, it is more the that I don’t see how the placement would be too drastically different if it were another simple pattern.

Thanks for the responses.

good ending