evophonia – evolutionary music

Evophonia is game with music that evolves according to the player’s abilities.  Starting from the seed of a single note, the music evolves in shape, sound, and in key-triggers as the player successfully plays it.  Mistakes cause a relapse into previous iterations of the music, while success leads to an evolution into complexity.

I’ve been backpacking, so I didn’t make it to the compo this year.  Still, I made a genuine effort to make an evolution game, and, after reading up on some genetic algorithms I thought that a proper evolution game would use the player as the selection criterion!  And here we go.  It’s SUPER rough, but it kind of almost works!