SharpEar Challenge: Ear Training Game

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#1

Hello,

I am developing an ear training game using LWJGL for musicans that want to improve their ability to hear musical intervals, chords etc.

Here is a link to the game:
http://www.springworldgames.com/sharpear/

Cheat with F10 while you hover over a challenge button. Will not be part of the final version :slight_smile:

Here is also a link to a video but it mostly contains “the making of” material:

#2

A bit disappointing that we can’t hear the actual game in the first few seconds of the video, only background music.

#3

This in interresting, as I’m playing piano and play a lot “by ear”. The only thing I feel bad about (I need a dictionary… My vocabulary is down to nothing right now), is that all the things have completely different names in Danish (which I’m used to). :persecutioncomplex:
I also just remembered that the notes are not even called the same things… sigh

Looking forward to see it anyways :stuck_out_tongue:

#4

Sorry about that. I was lazy and wanted to use Youtube’s Audioswap.
The ingame sound is not that amazing so you don’t miss a lot :slight_smile:

In fact, it sounds exactly like my ear training applet:
http://www.springworldgames.com/eartraining/

The idea for the game came from my own experience of using boring ear training software (like that applet).

#5

I have now put a version of the game online:
http://www.springworldgames.com/sharpear/

#6

Aww… I could not get any sound from it on Windows :frowning: Can’t try on Ubuntu right now, as I’m sitting at a hotspot that only works for Windows :frowning:

#7

Thanks for trying it.
Any sexy stack traces perhaps?

#8

Works fine on my laptop XP, one thing bothered me:

on the second level, you need 90% to advance, but with 8 questions it means i must get 8/8.
if not allowed a wrong answer, percentage should be 100

I think it’s a good little app, i suck at music so i could learn something from playing it

#9

I totally agree. The challenges are semi-procedurally generated and I haven’t added any smart conditions yet. I will add time conditions and combo conditions as well with varying difficulties.

Thanks for trying it!

#10

Added unlockable instruments (that are used in the “game”), chord challenges (up, down, harmonic, other order) and inverted chord challenges.

#11

Skipped the procedurally generated levels and made a lot of manual ones instead. There are still a lot of levels left to make with scales, extended/inverted chords, melodies etc.

Edit: If you want to cheat you can hover over a challenge and press F10. The challenge will be mysteriously unlocked!