Christmas is coming, and I have a gift for you!
we all know the fact: Android sucks at music apps (with some notable exceptions like Caustic and a few others).
BUT, it's perfectly fine for what dumbphones do best... playing silly games
and I know how much you people here enjoy the occasional "guess the synth" game. so I decided to give you the ultimate synth guessing thrill for Android!
ladies and gentlemen... it's Synth Quiz time!
a small screenshot to pique your interest:
the game is modeled after the various logo/movies/cars/whatever quiz that are so abundant in the Play Store. if you ever played one of those, you should be familiar. if you didn't, the super-short explanation is: try to guess the maker and the model of the synth you see in the picture (pro-tip: you can click on the picture to pinch-zoom it!).
there are three levels, with all kind of synths from vintage to modern. and more will come! my plan is to have every synth ever made covered. but I will probably settle for something less.
the game tries to be historically accurate without being overly pedantic. wherever synth names are composed of number and letters, you can put a space, an hyphen or nothing in between (example: "dx7", "dx 7", "dx-7" are all ok). also maker names can normally be written both in short and full form (example: "Moog" is ok, so is "Moog Music", or "Moog Music Inc" or "Moog Inc." etc.).
if the regular guessing is not enough for you, there is even a trivia minigame where you get 10 random questions about production dates, polyphony, analog vs. digital.
synth data (names, production dates, etc.) come mostly from Vintage Synth Explorer. where not available, I integrated with data from Wikipedia or my own googling.
I used images downloaded from the net, trying to avoid watermarked images or sources that clearly stated copyrighted materials. nonetheless, it is possible that I used some images without the necessary permission. if anyone has an issue with some image, I will remove it and search for another one. if *I* will get too many issues because of this, I will simply remove the application altogether.
levels and difficulty balance reflect my own judgement. if you think I did something blatantly wrong, or spot any error, feel free to point it out and I will do my best to fix.
source code is available at https://github.com/dada/SynthQuiz. for obvious reasons, the actual content (synth database and images) is not included. that would spoil all the fun, wouldn't it?
enough ranting, you can download the application in APK format from my dedicated webpage:
http://dada.perl.it/synthquiz/
any feedback is welcome, have fun and... let's see who's the first to complete all the 3 levels!
cheers,
Aldo
