Song Bird
Can you decipher the melodies of the forest?
Listen to the birds closely and play back their two melodies on your flute before the day is over!
NOTE: Reports of sound not working when playing in-browser on mobile.
CONTROLS:
| MUSIC NOTES: | GAMEBOY: | KEYBOARD: |
| F♯ (octave) | [A] + [UP] (hold together) | [Z] + [UP ARROW] (hold together) |
| F♮(octave) | [A] | [Z] |
| E | [A] + [DOWN] (hold together) | [Z] + [DOWN ARROW] (hold together) |
| D | [UP] | [UP ARROW] |
| C | [RIGHT] | [RIGHT ARROW] |
| B♭ | [B] + [UP] (hold together) | [X] + [UP ARROW] (hold together) |
| A♮ | [B] | [X] |
| A♭ | [B] + [DOWN] (hold together) | [X] + [DOWN] (hold together) |
| G | [LEFT] | [LEFT ARROW] |
| F | [DOWN] | [DOWN ARROW] |
All assets/designs are original and created during and for the GameBoy Showdown 2022 game jam.
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This was a very innovative and fun game. I wasn't very good at it but I enjoyed it. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for playing!
It's great to see a recording of someone's first experience with it to.
Thanks for joining the jam and making such a nice MUSIC GAME in only 7 days!
A music game with nice graphics, what else could I ask for? :)
Thank you for putting together a great jam! All the devs really brought their A game and it's been fun to play and discuss all of the games.
I really like the idea of this but I cannot understand the controls
I'm glad you like it; what exactly is your trouble with the controls?
Each button on the GameBoy is mapped to a certain note on the F major scale.
If you hold the A or B button (which plays the notes of a high "F" and an "A" respectively), you can also hold down the UP or DOWN arrows on the d-pad at the same time in order to raise or lower said notes by a half step.
You can then use these notes to reproduce the birds songs that you hear repeated in the forest.
A familiarity with music certainly helps here, but even without that, spending a bit of time messing around and listening closely to the background sounds should help!
Edit: For playing in-browser, the arrow keys and "Z" & "X" are used as the GameBoy's d-pad and "A" & "B" buttons.