Tone Find

December 27, 2024 10:36 AM

Tone Find A fun game where you have to identify a target note. I've become a little bit addicted to this game and I've definitely found my ability to identify notes has improved the more I've played it. I've managed to get quite a high score but I'm far too modest to post it here.
posted by mokey (14 comments total)

Oh my god, I thought this was like Simon where you click the notes in order they're played, and couldn't understand why I kept getting Game Over so quickly!
posted by mittens at 12:27 PM on December 27, 2024 [7 favorites]

Yeah, it could definitely use some instructions!
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:00 PM on December 27, 2024 [1 favorite]

Sorry about that.

Instructions: You hear the grid of notes play once, then you hear the question mark button play, and you have to click the button from the grid which played the same note as the question mark.

The play button in the panel underneath replays the grid of notes, but your bonus gets reduced every time you replay it. (However, you can click the question mark as many times as you want to hear it again).

You can also change the speed the grid plays back at with the button on the bottom-right of the panel, setting it to play back faster gives you a higher bonus.

The hearts represent your lives. You can restore lost lives by getting consecutive correct answers.
posted by mokey at 1:15 PM on December 27, 2024 [7 favorites]

Absolutely not your fault the site didn't include all that. But thank you for adding it!
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:21 PM on December 27, 2024 [3 favorites]

Doesn't seem to work on all devices, looks interesting though!
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 2:05 PM on December 27, 2024

That just gets amusingly unfair after a while. I could deal with quarter tones...
posted by Pemdas at 2:26 PM on December 27, 2024 [2 favorites]

Terrific!
posted by inexorably_forward at 3:49 PM on December 27, 2024 [1 favorite]

I've managed to get quite a high score but I'm far too modest to post it here.

I take it you're "Spoony D", then?

I'm not too modest to say I made #7 on the daily leaderboard. This is really fun!
posted by inexorably_forward at 3:56 PM on December 27, 2024 [2 favorites]

Top of the daily leaderboard, woohoo!

(I will note that it just rolled over to a new day.)

OK, I have to stop now or else nothing else will happen today.
posted by inexorably_forward at 4:09 PM on December 27, 2024 [2 favorites]

Doesn’t seem to play audio on my ipad
posted by TomFrog at 5:36 PM on December 27, 2024

Can’t get audio on my iPhone, but it looks cool!
posted by bunderful at 6:20 PM on December 27, 2024

It's interesting how at the lower levels at least this feels more like a musical-phrase-shape thing than a tone recognition thing. I was amused by the (accidental?) UI joke of having the twitter share X where the usual popup closing X is on the final score panel.
posted by lucidium at 4:48 AM on December 28, 2024 [1 favorite]

The time limit introduced in later stages is what finishes me off most of the time, I think instead of a time limit the dev could have increased the difficulty by making the candidate tones a bit closer together, maybe. But they already seem to have moved onto other projects. I think this game was knocked together in a day or two with the help of AI.
posted by mokey at 6:20 AM on December 28, 2024 [1 favorite]

It would be helpful to gameplay if there were a pause between the 4 notes and the final note
posted by falsedmitri at 8:46 AM on December 28, 2024 [1 favorite]