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History of Osu! in 2007

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July osu! began as a proof-of-concept named "ouentest". The first version was released on July 1, 2007 to a small group of peppy's close friends and featured a very basic beatmap editor and play mode. The editor could only make very simple beatmaps with no seeking or snapping functions available and there were no sliders or spinners, only circles and basic scoring/combo counters. The first release took approximately 16 hours of coding time and was done in a single all-nighter . pUpdater was introduced (soon to be known as osume ) to handle updating to the latest version.   Song Selection   Test-play   More test-play   Hit circles By the end of July, the menu system was changed to add a bit of style to the game. An initial implementation of sliders was completed, along with a non-animated orange slider ball and some relatively ugly curves. Beat snapping was added to the editor, as was a timeline and a more robust editor interface (quite similar to what you