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Guitar Games

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Guitar Games is the name for a suite of ear training and guitar instructional applications I have written over the last ten years.  They began as a way for me to teach myself ear training.  These early games were written in Macromedia Director's Lingo language and were later ported to Javascript.  The games covered a lot of musical territory:

  • Relative pitch training - intervals played on two guitar string
  • Perfect pitch training - pitch recognition after a series of "disorienting" sounds were played
  • Musical memory - a Simon-type game played on the guitar neck
  • Rhythmic training - a metronome with different sounds and an accompanying bass track 
  • Guitar performance - while a song plays back, the software compared the player's performance to the actual chords played
Many of the games supported the use of a MIDI guitar to input notes.  Some of the games required a MIID guitar, but most of them could be played with just your ears and a mouse.

 

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Kickstarter

 In 2011, I attempted to gauge market interest in a new version of Guitar Games for the iPad.  Below is the pitch I gave.  I was able to attract $6000 worth of pledges, which was lower than my goal, so the project was never funded on Kickstarter.  However, due to the exposure on Kickstarter, I have made some very good "game business" connections that will hopefully help me get games on the app stores soon.