Music Mash

Title: Music Mash

Platform: PC Game

Genre: Platformer

Rating: E

Target Market: Ages 6+, casual gamers

Game Overview:

It is 11:00 at night. Performance is tomorrow, so you work hard writing sheet music to play. You are exhausted out of your mind and wish you could just go to bed, but you can't. You must get up early tomorrow morning. 

Somehow, the notes just...won't fit. They never sound right. Being the perfectionist that you are, this infuriates you. You stay up for hours trying to get it to sound perfect, but you are unable to. Exasperated, you write some random notes just to have it done and fall asleep at your desk.

The next morning, you look over your composition once more. To your horror, it is completely unreadable. You wrote it while you were half asleep, so that explains why everything is jumbled around.

Well, there's nothing you can do about it. Your recital starts in an hour. 

Run along endless strings of notes and trills in this endless runner game that requires expert precision and a...sharp eye. (Hehehe.) 

The show must go on.

Instructions:

Use arrow keys to move and space/up arrow to jump. Use A and D to trill. If you ever forget the controls, press H before the game starts (on the "Press any key to start" screen") or after failing to review the controls.

Game Design Team

Jonah Brandenburgh – Game Designer

Media Credit:

Audio was by me using GarageBand.

Quarter notes - PianistHere, CC BY-SA 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quarter_note_with_upwards_stem.svg

Half notes - Actormusicus, CC BY-SA 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minima.svg

Trill - Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M2trill_MozartPC20_1.jpg

Eighth notes - Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan (cdang), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Figure_rythmique_deux_croches_lien_haut....

Sheet music - acquired from https://free-printable-paper.com/printable-sheet-music-for-piano-with-bar-lines/ (as per the ToS)

 

 

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