Ireland's Call on Guitar Hero X-Plorer for the PC and XBox 360

Hiya!  Rob here, just popping in on the team's new blog for a quick sec before I head off to Canada.

If you have the Guitar Hero X-Plorer controller for the XBox360, here's the XNA application that will let you play Ireland's Call (a.k.a. "The Rugby Song") on your PC or XBox360. This was my finale at Rob's Last Stand last week.

This game is a bit more "free form" than the real Guitar Hero, in that you aren't prompted visually with when you should play each chord. Instead, as you play, fireworks go off in sync with the music that match the colours of the notes you're playing.

I wrote this in XNA by starting with the Particle3D sample found at the XNA Creators Club. It was fun tweaking the High-Level Shader Language used for the fireworks. I must also say, I now have immense respect for the people responsible for producing the audio for the real Guitar Hero games.

I've included playing instructions on my blog for your jamming pleasure. 

And I've commented and posted the code as well. 

Rock on!