But this worries me a little bit: "I also needed a distraction" - is it really a good idea to treat our brains this way? Why do we need distractions all the time? Why is boredom so intolerable? Also, you can simply just think about stuff, you don't have to feed your compulsion loop.
Suggestions: - have an option to add 4 constant interval tiks at the beginning to help setup the base rhythm - hold down the small white dot to return to menu so you can see progress without exiting - have a way to visualize a rhythm similar to the example or skip it (maybe two finger hold?) if you are stuck - some rhythms feel to have slightly uneven tempo. Is the duration of the tick taken into consideration when generating the tempo?
Interesting game overall. Well done
1. Use “you’re“, not “your”, for “you are”. It is wrong in the first “screen” image in your App Store listing.
2. Use an ellipsis — three dots, “…”, never two dots. This is in two images in your listing.
Feedback: it's pretty difficult even at the first level. As a distraction, even just easy 2-3 beat patters might be good to start with. So having difficulty levels would be great.
Maybe the difficulty comes from the strength of the haptic engine, but not sure how to easily change that (somewhere in Settings app I'm sure).
Where can I sign up for notification of a future Android (specifically Kindle Fire [Kids+]) release?
It is quite fun, I like rhythm games.
Am I the only one that can’t help seeing irony here? Search for a constant attention and distraction may not lead to a better mental condition, if not making worse as subsequents boring times will be even more boring.
Here’s some alternatives some phoneless can engage while staring at a speaker:
- imagine another life for the speaker
- mentally check your grocery list
- build inner abs, perineum and other hidden muscles
- wank yourself from a hidden hole in you pocket
- think what where the outcome and what you could have done differently in previous social interactions
- my favorite : deeply concentrate on all noises, voices sounds that does not come from the speaker itself.
Also congratulations, AFAIK this is a novel game ideas. Being bored leaded here to creativity.
The usual : improve a sense by shutting down another?
Anyway, it's fun!
I think it would be nice to have some UI when you first open the app, so you can at least learn how to play it. It's kind of hard to figure out what you're doing wrong when you tap and what success should look like.
Also, are there any difficulty levels? It feels like the very first sequence is kind of hard.
Have you looked at the resulting file to see what uses up the space? Perhaps it can be reduced further?
However, I also really have to wonder: "I needed a distraction" - smartphones have apparently conditioned us to consider boredom absolutely intolerable. I'm note sure that's a good thing.
