SimTunes
Published by Maxis

Age Group: Age 4 to 8, Age 8 and Up
Type: Art & Creativity, Music
License: free demo
 
Description:

Compose a colorful adventure of music and art! Never before has artistic expression combined with music in such a fun and unique way. Everyone can create cool compositions with four little bugs that wind their way across a screen of colored blocks. Each hue represents a different pitch, and each bug represents another instrument.

Players control the path of a bug with a "right or left turn block". The bug scurries across the screen until it hits a block, then it turns. When bugs cross paths, they make a chord. A tutorial walks the player through all the game options. These include "musical stamps" of stars, hearts, and trees and a choice of four (out of twenty) different bugs, uh, instruments.

Although the educational value is not out of this world, the fun is. "SimTunes" encourages kids to be expressive and creative, which we like. However, the demo only lasts 10 minutes and will not allow players to save their creations.

Download Details

Requires:
Direct X for Windows 95 version, win32s.zip for Windows 3.1 version, 256 colors, Sound Blaster

Filename: tunedemo.exe

Filesize: 9.3 MB

Download Sites:

US : ftp://ftp.maxis.com/

US : ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/

United Kingdom : ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/

South Africa : ftp://ftp.gamesdomain.is.co.za/

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