By Adam Smith on November 12th, 2012 at 3:00 pm.
BLOPPITY, BUMP, TSSSHHH, BEEE BLOOP. I used to be in a band, but looking back I don’t think my instrument was ever plugged in. My job was to stand on a stage and look moody. Perhaps my lack of ability goes some way toward explaining why I’m so excited whenever I find a game or toy that lets me make music just by clicking a button or two. Acid Defender is a brilliant browser-based music-making experiment and I haven’t listened to anything else this morning. BEEP, BLOOP, BEEPITY, TSSSHHH. Play it here. Via @jennatar.
There are a couple of other audio experiments, including one inspired by Conway’s Game of Life. That one is kind of terrifying. I keep pressing ‘reset’ and hoping that the next iteration won’t sound like a choir of haunted angels regurgitating glass harps.
12/11/2012 at 15:07 Bork Titflopsen says:
Whelp, not working for me. Too bad though, I always enjoy these experiments.
I remember there being a game where a few people could make music together by clicking on some sidescrolling lines for notes, producing different sounds according to position and color.
Edit: Found it, it’s called Plink.
http://labs.dinahmoe.com/plink/
12/11/2012 at 15:09 Adam Smith says:
I’m pretty sure I posted about that one but I can’t for the life of me remember the name of it. It was great!
Shame it’s not working for you. Probably a browser issue, I’d imagine? I’ve only tried it with Chrome.
12/11/2012 at 15:25 Bork Titflopsen says:
I am using Chrome too and I’m not planning on installing Safari. I’ll check again later though, see if there is something on my end I can do about it.
12/11/2012 at 15:17 BlackestTea says:
Also not working for me. Using Chrome, just updated. I can click around and it will move blocks and change their color, but there is not sound, no red squares and the timer isn’t moving =(
12/11/2012 at 15:59 SominiTheCommenter says:
http://tonematrix.audiotool.com
There is also ToneMatrix, featured on Wildfire Worlds’ trailer.
EDIT: Ninja’d a million years ago. :|
12/11/2012 at 15:11 Zanchito says:
I’m a sucker for music games.
@Bork: I know the one you’re talking about, was thinking about it just yesterday! If I find it in my favourites, I’ll post the link.
[Edit] We’ll, I’ll be damned. I simply clicked on the “music” tag under the article and there it was, just the next in line!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/05/01/if-music-be-the-food-of-love-play-plink/
12/11/2012 at 15:16 Dubbill says:
Not a game, but in the same vein if you want something with a bit more Chesh: http://tonematrix.audiotool.com
12/11/2012 at 21:05 Oh Tyrone says:
I can confirm that this thingy, though indeed not a game, is one of the best things on the internet. Stupidly easy to use and everything you do sounds great.
EDIT: Thank you, by the way, for what I assume is the original page. I only came across it via an embed on someone’s tumblr, and didn’t exactly know how to google it.
12/11/2012 at 15:31 The First Door says:
Well, I’m slow today. I spent ages wondering why when I caught all of the red dots the game punished me with less music. Woops!
12/11/2012 at 16:10 pupsikaso says:
I wish there were games like these that gave visual feedback rather than audial, for us hearing-impaired.
12/11/2012 at 18:54 fysx says:
It should run on Chrome and Safari.
12/11/2012 at 22:37 Ostymandias says:
a slowly disintegrating TB-303
i like it
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