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Playful Musical Puzzle Apps From MusiGames

Unscramble your favorite songs, and use your vocal cords to crack a glass.

As the name is fairly self-explanatory, there’s probably no need to say that MusiGames develop fun and engaging music games for the iPhone or iPad. The creative mobile design studio, which is part of music software development company D’Accord Music Software, is situated within Porto Digital, a technological center in the city of Recife, Brazil that promotes art, research, and heavy technological development. Although their visual identity is not exactly as refined as some of the app’s we’ve covered in our Byte the App column, their games are intelligent and entertaining. We were especially impressed with the idea of using a microphone as a control, as seen in the Throat Detonator and Paper Boat Race apps, described below.

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Here’s a list of some of our favorite MusiGames apps:

iMusic Puzzle This app generates “puzzles” using songs in your music library. You are assigned the task of putting the clips in the right sequence until the track becomes that music “you’re sure that you heard somewhere before.”

Drums Challenge The Drums Challenge is an app you might be familiar with, as it was named one of last year’s “Top 5 Best-Selling Music Games” in the US app store. The game features familiar gameplay—channeling the classic Simon Says command protocol—but instead of visual patterns, logic concepts are used to shape the musical universe. The computer shows you a standard drum sequence, then you have to continue to develop the pattern.

MixBox Baile Funk Funnier, but less polished, this game takes advantage of the internet trend of making funk remixes from political speeches, audio fails, and other humorous soundbites. The application associates a button to every piece of the audio sentence. Then, using looping options, users press the buttons to fit the bass and the MC’s drops. The app’s a good excuse to record some everyday spoken absurdities.

Throat Detonator And finally, our favorite: a game in which you depend on your own vocal skills to prevent major disasters. The Throat Detonator uses the microphone as a controller, while a “tuner” on the screen indicates how close (or far) you are from the goal. But if you feel too embarrassed to incarnate an upcoming opera singer, you should try playing Paper Boat Race. Instead of singing into a microphone, just blow on it to give your paper boat a boost.

Stay tuned for an interview with the founders of MusiGames next week!