Ginga Berimbau

Ginga Berimbau is a capoeira rhythm game set in the open-air rodas of Salvador da Bahia. You play on the beat of the berimbau, the single-string bow that leads every roda, and each note that comes toward you is one of its real strokes. Hit it on time and the sound becomes a move in the jogo, so keeping the rhythm and playing capoeira turn into the same thing. Each stroke asks for its own gesture. Tap on the buzzed chi to keep your ginga swaying, swipe away from the open dom to slip out with an esquiva, and swipe up through the gaps the closed dim leaves to answer with a meia-lua. On any attack you can also gamble on a rasteira: swipe down to sweep the leg for triple points, but the timing window is half as wide and a miss costs more axé. When the toque changes, the tempo moves with it, and the mestre in charge of the roda decides how the game is scored, so the same song never plays quite the same way twice. Between rodas, the Caderno lets you listen to each toque and study its stroke patterns before you try it, and after every run a timing chart shows whether you rush or drag. That gives you something concrete to fix, a new star to chase and a reason to open Ginga Berimbau again tomorrow. Features: • Three gestures tied to the berimbau's strokes: tap the chi for ginga, swipe away on the dom for esquiva, swipe up on the dim for meia-lua • Rasteira on any attack: swipe down for triple points, with half the timing window and a bigger axé loss on a miss • Five real toques (Angola, São Bento Pequeno, Benguela, São Bento Grande and Iúna), with the tempo shifting when the toque changes • Mestres who run the rodas in Ginga Berimbau their own way: one doubles rasteira points, one allows longer combos but punishes misses harder, and one plays without blows and counts only perfect timing • A path through Salvador: open rodas at the Pelourinho, then earn stars to reach the Mercado Modelo and the beach at Itapuã • A timing chart after each run that tells you if you rush or drag, plus a calibration step for your device • The Caderno, which teaches the toques with their stroke patterns and a listen mode, and collects the traditional corridos you learn in each jogo • A capoeirista profile with your apelido and photo, and corda ranks to climb • A daily roda reminder you can set • Open-air rodas that follow Salvador's real weather, drawn in warm ochre walls, white cotton and blue shutters Pick up the rhythm, keep your ginga and join the roda in Ginga Berimbau.