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Rhythm Drummer

A timing game built around four drum voices — bass, tone, slap and shaker — with notes falling down four lanes to be struck on D, F, J and K, or by tapping.

— The board

Play against the machine. Your best score is kept in this browser only — nothing is sent to the archive.

Click or tap to play. Keyboard works too where the game uses it.

— What is playing against you

Nothing plays against you — obstacles arrive on a timer.

No opponent — a timer or a spawner

Nothing is playing against you. There is no opponent in this game at all — no model of you, no plan, no choices being weighed. What feels like an adversary is a spawn timer and a random number generator: obstacles appear on a schedule that tightens as your score rises. This is worth noticing precisely because it can feel otherwise. Difficulty that rises with time reads as an opponent responding to you, and it is not.

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What this version is not

The four voices correspond to techniques a djembe player really uses, and the drum sounds are synthesised from scratch rather than sampled. Everything else is invented: the four "songs" are generated by the program and transcribe no piece of music from any tradition. Nobody plays a djembe by hitting four buttons in a row, and the game should not be mistaken for instruction.

— Sources

No sources have been attached to this entry yet. Until they are, treat everything above as provisional.

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