Robo Maestro
Robo Maestro is a procedural music toy. It’s a revolutionary new way of creating and experiencing music! You tell it what you want, and then the Maestro automatically generates music that fits that. Playing Robo Maestro requires no music knowledge at all: just have fun and hear what happens! Guide the Maestro and create awesome music together with it!
Maestro Mode
Maestro Mode is the main attraction: a fun, relaxing experience where the music constantly evolves based on your choices. The Maestro generates random options that you can choose from to alter the music. Hear something you like? Store it as a chorus to come back to later, or save it for usage in the editors.
Loop Editor
Build your own loops and define details like instruments, layers, intensity and random seeds. Whatever you do, Robo Maestro makes sure it always fits with the rest of the music!
Song Editor
Combine your loops to create complete songs!
Export your creations
Share your music with friends, or open it in any other music software to continue editing there. What you create with Robo Maestro is yours to use in any way you like!
Optional deep tweaks
You can also dive deeper and define the chords and time signatures yourself. You don’t have to though: Robo Maestro can figure everything out itself, so you don’t need to know any music theory to use it. But if you want, you can get more detailed control.
Jam companion
Jam along to Robo Maestro on your favourite instrument or vocals! This automatic mode will let Robo Maestro endlessly evolve the music, fully automatically, as a backing for your own improvisation. Or enable the full features and just sit back and be surprised by what Robo Maestro can generate!
Advanced automatic composition
Robo Maestro is powered by an advanced procedural music generator. Dozens of algorithms work together to create each aspect of a song: drums, bass, melody, chords, rhythm, notes and much, much more. You can control each step individually, or just let Robo Maestro generate a complete loop and make tweaks from there.
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MuX
An amazing playground for sound and music synthesis that unfortunately seems to be abandoned, lacking several critical features. Even so, if you have any interest whatsoever in music making, it’s really fun to play around and build contraptions within it.
– Real player with 29.3 hrs in game
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If you’re into music and sound design you can’t miss this one, think about a VR Reaktor…
devs are active and updates are coming quite fast, they list to the community so thumbs up and full support!
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game
Cadence
Cadence is something different: a hybrid of game and music sandbox. Understanding how to bring these two worlds together has been a quest 8 years in the making. It’s now finally here for you to enjoy.
How you spend your time with Cadence is up to you. Some people will enjoy relaxing with the game and solving levels. Tinkerers will enjoy fiddling with music in the sandbox. The crazy ones will program things we didn’t even know were possible.
Game play
You don’t need a sense of rhythm or a good ear to play Cadence - just your thinking cap and a bit of patience will reward you with gentle zen melodies. Puzzles start simple and build up to complex head-scratchers.
Make some noise
If you’ve tried music production you’ll know it’s intimidating. Cadence’s sandbox mode has been meticulously designed so that “time to first sound” is mere seconds. It doesn’t matter if you’re a composer looking for inspiration or you’ve never made a note of music in your life - Cadence is an entirely new and playful way of interacting with music.
Many are better than one
Cadence goes deep: underneath the game there’s a Turing complete logic system and a host of music production tools for you to explore. What’s possible with Cadence is an open question.
That’s why Steam Workshop is deeply integrated with effortless one-click import:
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play the best community generated levels
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collectively learn new techniques
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show off your proudest creations
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Firing Vibes
Firing Vibes is a 2 vs 2 multiplayer FPS that combines heavy vertical gameplay with a little bit of rhythm.
Instead of classical weapons like assault or sniper rifles in Firing Vibes you choose a melody. And each melody provides a unique damage pattern. Some melodies are quicker or slower in their rhythm, that leads to different types of gameplay.
Set in a minimalistic Scifi world. Your character has two special skills which allow to go about everywhere and master the fully vertical environment. The first one is a unique climbing ability enabling you to move on walls as easily as if you were on the ground. The second is the ability to spawn cubes and walls and create new pathways.
KEY FEATURES
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2 vs 2 Online Multiplayer - Dedicated servers in Europe, North America and East Asia (and more later).
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Shoot with music - Your only weapons are music based lasers.
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Create news pathways - Spawning or destroying cubes helps you to move through the level in new and interesting ways.
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Climb everywhere - Your climbing ability combined with the cubes you can place make you free to go about everywhere you want.
DvDrum, Ultimate Drum Simulator!
I am enjoying the “you-know-what” out of DvDrum! As a former drummer, I can say that, although I haven’t a clue about the technical stuff in this simulator, I am having an absolute BLAST playing along with my favorite songs. The drum sounds awesome and I have adjusted cymbals, toms, bass drum and, yes..even the COWBELL to my liking, haha. Man, I gotta say to all the drummers out there, “Have you ever told your GF, BF, Husband, Wife or your friends that you used to be in a band and they kinda shrugged and just looked at you with hint of, ‘Oh, sure you did’ ?” Well, I can say that transitioning from hands and feet to using your fingers on your keyboard requires practice…the end result is well worth it. Not only are people believers now, but I am just plain having a blast playing the songs from our band’s set list. The sounds are adjustable and this simulator has a whole bunch of options that I really don’t understand, yet. I feel I have only scratched the surface of what can be done with this program. It has MIDI input, btw, but I pound my mechanical kb mercilessly and it is still holding on with no breaks or keys falling off. I have also purchased a cheap membrane-type keyboard and it works fine, as well. I will say that when it comes to playing exactly like a drum set, I have not worked up to keeping time on the hi-hat and cymbals 100% of the time with my fingers…but I see progress with practice. There’s all kinds of programmable stuff for the professional…again, which I don’t “get”. I’ll have to read about that stuff, sometime.
– Real player with 4823.6 hrs in game
I think a gameplay of DvDrum is good for beginners who don’t know how to play the drums and just playing with the keyboard (like me) or don’t play real drums in real life. DvDrum just a simulation game, not music editor software, you have to play it by keyboard, or drumkit toys. You can build your Drumkit in game, also modify audio, image or photo of backgound Drumkit with little workshop and set up your keyboard input or drumkit toy input for creating your play style. You need some skills like knowledge about drum beats, music tones,… and music theory, or if you don’t have anything, it’s very hard for you, you need to learn how to use it and training everyday hard like me. One more thing, DvDrum isn’t support recording software, so if you want make a video with your drumkit cover some music tracks, you need to find the recording software to record your gameplay
– Real player with 1598.1 hrs in game
Everybody Wham Wham
A very cute and relaxing experience (with some very funny moments). The visual art is PRIMABELLA and the soundtrack is PERFECT-EL RINO and gets stuck in your head even when you’re not playing the game.
There are some things that I’d like to see more in the game though, for example, I’d like to be able to interact more with the characters (I don’t mean talking to them, I like the way that the main character communicates with the others, but I’d like to have more of those moments when you get to know them and they tell you about their lives), also, I’d like to be able to interact more with the scenario, aaaaaand (even more important than the others) I’d like to see multiple endings, I wish we could be able to convince the characters to change their minds about some things (which could impact the ending).
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
This game is brilliant, and deserves so much more attention than it’s getting right now. Here are a couple of reasons why:
#1 - The story elements and the vibes of this game feel so complete and so beautiful. It’s relaxing, fun, and there are always little surprises popping up that I didn’t notice the first or second time I play through it.
#2 - The soundtrack is beautiful and filled with catchy tunes.
#3 - I get so invested in the snowman building competition, I surprise myself. This his, hands down, the best snowman building game ever made.
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
Super Mega Zero
Miss Undefined has been whisked away by the dastardly Kill Screen. Go from Zero to Hero in this fast-paced platformer, chasing time, the high score and eventually the Kill Screen itself.
Super Mega Zero is a tight precision and puzzle platformer with shoot ‘em up elements. Simply touch an upgrade and switch forms to go from classic, straight-forward platforming to the more puzzle-like action number system or Shoot’ Em Up gameplay. Stick to one or mix them together all in a single level!
Features
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Challenge hundreds of handcrafted levels with a mix of platforming, puzzles and shoot ‘em up gameplay.
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Arcade esthetics that bring you back to the 80s
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A banger chiptune soundtrack
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Collectable Pi:s (aka the tastiest number)
Rhythm Towers
Rhythm Towers is a new and unique rhythm-based tower defense game. Each tower is built by playing a rhythm that dynamically adds to the soundtrack while defending your base against an increasingly difficult onslaught of enemies.
Rhythm Towers features an original story, intricately designed music that is tied to the gameplay, satirical characters and intense, challenging boss battles. Experience the story driven campaign solo or with a friend through couch co-op and online multiplayer.
Features
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Build and unlock a powerful arsenal of defensive Rhythm Towers by rhythm matching
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Discover and take advantage of helpful abilities that will alter the way you can play
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Defeat challenging bosses that will push your strategy and rhythm skills to the limit
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Enjoy multiple musical genres with wide ranging tempos and unique styles
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Summon powerful allies that will assist you in battle, by unleashing cinematic carnage
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Plan, upgrade and use strategy to place your Rhythm Towers in the most optimal positions
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Explore a vibrant alien planet that reacts to your rhythms, in helpful and hazardous ways
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Choose from multiple playable characters, each with unique skills and personalities
Engare
Beautiful Graphics, Inspiring music, Calming patterns, but exciting when you finally “get” one. This game brings natural graphics to life. I had worse than bad experiences with cheap plastic spirographs “made for kids” as a child, so I am astounded at what it COULD look like with the right tools. I didn’t realize so many awesome shapes come from such simple movements.
This game seems like it could be frustrating, but the music is so nice it distracts from any “mistakes”. But even the mistakes are impressive, so why not keep trying. There is no negative feedback if you don’t get it correct, but you get a nice PING and the completed drawing when you do. The music ebbs and flows in such a way as to sometimes create pregnant pauses as you hold your breath and see if you finally got it. The music is a loop but so long that it does not seem repetitive at all. I could listen to it for hours, but I don’t want to bias my game clock, LOL. I think this game is good for all ages, and a good problem solving experience. I’ve even thought about how I could maybe make some of these moving planks and things to try to draw these patterns on paper perhaps.
– Real player with 25.8 hrs in game
By way of introduction, let me say that I’m a college mathematics professor. I played through the game in a few hours, and enjoyed almost every minute of it even though I knew almost immediately how to solve many of the puzzles. If you’ve never done parametric/polar coordinate math, some of the shapes or how to make them will be genuinely surprising.
The game is in my opinion a great way to intuitively learn how compound motions can produce a variety of interesting figures. I enjoyed it so much that I plan to use it in a math class this very semester, along side traditional Mathematica-based computations. An “education mode” or “education edition” would be a very welcome expansion of the game, where completed puzzles could also show you some of the mathematics behind them…but I wouldn’t want that to in any way distract a player who wants to play it as-is.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game