Dear players and developers, exciting news for all singers! Solo-Dev Andreas published a brand new playable beta release of UltraStar Play on May 30th 2025.
This is a major update with many improvements compared to Version v0.9.0 in 2023. UltraStar Play now is nearly a complete karaoke game – not just some baby steps on Unity Engine anymore.
To make it short: We get a full reintegration of Melody Mania up to 2025-05-05. This basically means we can enjoy:
- A full party mode
- An online mode
- YouTube embedding
and much more. For details see pull-request #525 and #473 on GitHub.
You can download the playable build on GitHub now. It’s available for Windows, MacOs or Linux. Just expand “Assets”. We recommend to see the wiki for installation instructions.
Visit ultrastar-play.com for a full list of features.
Maintainers welcome
If you want to contribute Andreas is looking for maintainers of the Google Play Store entries. The game provides a companion app for Android.
Besides maintenance there are a lot of other things to improve of course. For instance UI/UX Design, Backgrounds and themes. It’s the best time to be part of the project and nearly every skill is needed.
All game developers with experience in Unity Engine can join and influence future development of UltraStar Play. If you wanna help and you’re an expert in web programming there are other games you can improve.
UltraStar Play partner shop added
With this new version you can support the game via merchandise too. UltraStar Play now features a partner shop link in the main menu. It’s karaoke.style.
Idea is to open new ways to fund and evolve the project in the long-term e.g. for users of UltraStar Play that do not want or need Melody Mania.
Andreas want to keep the shop mostly independent, only loosely connected to Melody Mania. Behind the scenes is a Spreadshop, i.e., a Spreadshirt shop configured by Andreas. Spreadshirt handles everything, he gets his share.