Sound Shift

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.89
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.03
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★75%
Hi, I'm Andy and I'd like to present you my first LD game – Sound Shift.

Rules are simple:

1.The Game generates chord, which consists of three sounds.
2.You can listen it by clicking on the black play button.
3.You can change chord by clicking on button with arrow.
4.You have 10 soundballs.
5.You should transfer 3 soundballs into cells to make a chord.
6.You can listen, what you got by clicking on white play button.
7.If your chord will be the same as generated chord, congrats! :)

Then Sound Shift automatically generates another chord. Good luck! :)

Comments27

RoboOggy17 Apr 2016, 15:33
Interesting concept! I quite like what you are going with here! keep it up :)
qikcik17 Apr 2016, 20:06
Nice :D
Tharky
Tharky17 Apr 2016, 20:56
Interesting concept, I failed badly :P
pjimmy
pjimmy17 Apr 2016, 21:26
this was cool! super creative
HealogiK
HealogiK17 Apr 2016, 21:52
I loved it ! this is so ludic and awesome !
ORECROS18 Apr 2016, 04:24
I did this with my vocal teacher in high school.. it was really fun.
F4KETHIS18 Apr 2016, 04:26
Very original, fun to play with
jcmonkey
jcmonkey18 Apr 2016, 04:26
nice game here. im totally bad at figureing out chords, but that didnt stop me from trying. :D
DieWithDustin18 Apr 2016, 04:28
Cool idea, I can't play it because I just cant do music
hugheth
hugheth18 Apr 2016, 13:16
I'm surprised by how interesting this game is to play despite quite a very original take on shape shifting. Great if you're already musically inclined
crisp
crisp18 Apr 2016, 13:16
Nicely thought!
monkeybit29
monkeybit2918 Apr 2016, 13:18
Although it didn't switch to the next level, i had a LOT of fun trying to figure out the chords, nice going!
unoion
unoion18 Apr 2016, 13:27
It was hard because of my awful musical abilities, but game is definitely great!
ito12345678918 Apr 2016, 16:23
Useful to train the ear. But hard to the uninitiated like me.
keyboardmonkey
keyboardmonkey18 Apr 2016, 18:54
I get this exception: "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javafx/application/Application" running the .jar

Apparently javafx is runnable in openJDK but in my case, it is not :(

kbmonkey@multivac:sound shift$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_95"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.4) (7u95-2.6.4-1~deb8u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode)
Andy_Vozauthor18 Apr 2016, 19:34
keyboardmonkey, I think you can try to update java and OpenJDK. Sorry for the inconvenience :(
Somnium
Somnium19 Apr 2016, 05:46
An original concept, and very enjoyable to play!

If you are considering making a post-compo version, I would suggest that you enhance the "win detection" logic, so it does not matter in which order the soundballs are placed :-) Also, it could be useful to be able to listen to a "partially constructed" chord.

You could even add labels to the soundballs and target chord (and maybe even give the name of a "wrong" chord as feedback), thereby making it into a simple edutainment game :-D
bigbatardyt21 Apr 2016, 08:33
Interesting idea, my musician skills helped me out there ^^
plko
plko21 Apr 2016, 20:32
Really hard game...
aemiliu5
aemiliu522 Apr 2016, 07:32
it's nice for training the ear!
DesignerNap
DesignerNap23 Apr 2016, 10:15
Really quite hard for the untrained ear and without the notes on each blob, it is even harder! I like it though. Good work!
runvs
runvs27 Apr 2016, 17:21
cool Idea. Though it is quite hard (at least for someone who only knows how to play drums) to check if it is the correct chord. Well implemented though and nice sound samples!
Andy_Vozauthor4 May 2016, 13:30
Thanks everyone for the feedback!!! :)
ObsessiveNotion
ObsessiveNotion4 May 2016, 19:56
I loved it, although there is not much to do, i enjoyed playing around with the notes one by one and making those 3
gelisam
gelisam6 May 2016, 03:59
Way too hard! Maybe begin with easier levels?
Drury
Drury7 May 2016, 06:55
I so wish I could play this!

I won't rate you overall because I can't tell how good the game is if you know how to play it, best of luck.
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