Pitch Jumper is a musical platformer that uses your music to create levels
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Good music always makes playing games a better experience, but you don't always wants to listen to other peoples' music, do you?
Pitch Jumper is a musical platformer that generates levels based on your own music to create a personal gaming experience.
The game was made by a small student team from UCF’s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA). They used a modular formula to generate levels based on the song's tempo, music density and perceived loudness.
In theory, this means the game has infinite replayability as if you want new levels all you have to do is download a new song on to your device.
However, the generation is confined to the variation of a small number of platformer sections.
You play a small mouse with huge ears, that it uses to glide, as it makes its way across a constantly scrolling grassy terrain.
The levels consist of hazards like gaps and spiky plants, as well as musical pipes that provide upwards propulsion, flower-drums and a few other elements.
So that replay factor may be quite limited in practice as opposed to how it sounds on paper.
The goal of each level is collect as many musical notes as possible, with the different coloured ones acting as multipliers for your score.
Speaking of which, you can challenge your friends to beat your score on the leaderboards if they have the same song.
Pitch Jumper is available on the App Store for free, and comes with 10 tracks by indie pop rock band The Rules. It will be released on Google Play soon.
