Ultimidi

About Ultimidi

Learn piano through short lessons, familiar songs, and a colorful musical adventure.

In the maker’s words

Hi HN, 10 years ago, as my BsC final project I had the idea to make a quick game that used neural nets to detect notes played on a guitar, and I made a small mini-game to make use of that. I always wanted to improve on that idea, so last year I started making my own piano-learning game. You know how in most games you learn complex key combinations and sequences (i.e. Mortal Kombat fatalities), but those don't have much use outside of the game. My idea was to make a game that can be played with the piano, so you you learn notes, chords, scales simply by playing. While making it and prototyping many versions, I realised that that idea didn't work as well as I wanted, because it is hard to focus on reading notes, playing and some other gameplay logic. In the end I settled on a combination of basic beat-based notes playing and a few minigames that use the piano as input. My goal now is to ad…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game5 points2 comments5 hours ago