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Kickstart this: Help turn musical puzzler Cadence into a digital instrument for iPad

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Kickstart this: Help turn musical puzzler Cadence into a digital instrument for iPad
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It has been nearly a year since I went hands-on with Cadence. Back then, it was already an elegant and playful music-based puzzler. In fact, I thought it was almost finished.

So it was surprising to find that creator Made With Monster Love has just put Cadence on Kickstarter to seek £25,000 in funding. Is it not nearly finished, then?

It seems it's getting close. But the Kickstarter isn't to fund what makes up the core of Cadence - its creators want to try something else with it.

"With all the elements in Cadence, might it be possible for us to build an entirely new way of making music? Could Cadence be a creative tool that anyone can use -- novice or maestro?" it reads on the game's Kickstarter.

Yep, what Made With Monster Love want to do is create a way for anyone to create actual music with Cadence, rather than just solve musical puzzles.

This requires that players can form levels and compositions with ease. This is where a lot of the funding will go, it seems.

The studio also reckons it has ideas to include "more music theory and production without losing the intuitive appeal of Cadence."

Part of this taking Cadence in this new direction is getting the game into more hands so that you and others can determine where it is taken.

So, if you fancy supporting Cadence's further development as both a musical puzzler, and a digital instrument in of itself, have a look at its Kickstarter.

The plan is to bring Cadence to PC and iPad by early 2016.

Chris Priestman
Chris Priestman
Anything eccentric, macabre, or just plain weird, is what Chris is all about. He turns the spotlight on the games that fly under the radar.