Gareth Jones

A few years ago I was commissioned by Music Teachers to develop personalised, animated greetings cards for their users. With Andy Quick providing the graphics, four cards were made in all as well as the supporting application which allowed users to create and personalise the cards in the first place. As you’d expect, recipients were notified of the cards by automated email and were also able to send their own in response.

I had forgotten all about the project until I received a related enquiry last week, so here are some screens:

The Name that Note:PRE game that I developed for Jamplay was significantly different to the original game. The graphics were completely overhauled and the game-play mechanics modified to create a game that does away with the 60-second timer and instead ramps up the difficulty as the player progresses through levels that are each made up of 8 questions. As the player progresses through these levels, the time available for each level decreases until eventually they’ll need lightning-fast reaction speeds to progress any further.

The questions themselves are selected from a bank that is defined in an external XML file, as are some other game variables like the selection of base notes, the starting level time and the level time decay rate.

At the end of the game the user’s score is posted to the Jamplay score board via a Javascript API that they kindly supplied me with, and the top 3 scores are displayed on the gaming section of the site for all to see.

Name that Note: Pitch Recognition Edition is a game that improves your note-recognition skills by asking you to name different notes as they are played. Name as many notes as you can within the time limit to achieve a high score which you can then post to a global leader-board. Choose from 3 different difficulty levels which affect the range of notes and the time you have to name each one.

Click here to play the game now!

Want this game on your website for free? Follow these 3 simple steps:

1. Post a comment below.
2. Send me a message saying you’d like the game on your website – and remember to include a link to your site!
3. If your site meets the requirements I will email the game to the email address you used in step 2 – so make sure you use a valid address!

Name that Note is a game that improves your music-reading skills by asking you to name different notes as they appear on-screen. Name as many notes as you can within the time limit to achieve a high score which you can then post to a global leader-board. Choose from the treble and bass clefs through 3 different difficulty levels.

Click here to play the game now!

Want this game on your website for free? Follow these 3 simple steps:

1. Post a comment below.
2. Send me a message saying you’d like the game on your website – and remember to include a link to your site!
3. If your site meets the requirements I will email the game to the email address you used in step 2 – so make sure you use a valid address!