Floppy Club; Nintendo Switch, Windows, macOS
You solve puzzles, then create the songs, in this tactile puzzle game spanning genres and instruments, from Ethiopian jazz to krautrock
The relationship between rhythm and mathematics is straightforward and yet profound: notes arranged in regular patterns can yield endless variety – works that elicit everything from melancholy to dance. Rytmos imagines each musical phrase as a tiny, discrete world: a cube, in fact, whose six sides each contain a different sonic pattern that, when combined, blossom into a song.
Your task is to activate each of the cube’s sides by solving a puzzle. Each puzzle works in much the same way. Draw a continuous line to describe a maze, connecting each musical note – rendered as towers – on the cube, before arriving back at the beginning to complete the loop. The game allows the line to cross itself, but it can only conclude at the start point. Complete the puzzle and one of the six tracks begins to play. Complete all six sides and you finish the song, which is duly turned into vinyl and added to a crate of virtual records. Continue reading...
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