Polyrhythmia

Polyrhythmia is a challenging 2-button rhythm game that explores polyrhythms, concentrating on cross-rhythms in particular. These polyrhythms are represented as Euclidean Rhythms in game, visualized in 3d as nodes rotating around a circular path.

This soundtrack is performed with a solo harp tuned to a just scale based in G.

Although you can play in browser, the windows and mac executables are often more reliable!

Polyrhythmia was created for the Github Gamejam 2022, this game explores the theme of "scale"

• the tempo scales the speed of the levels and therefor the difficulty of the game
• the music is all for a harp sampler instrument tuned to a particular just-intonation scale in the key of G
• the long beats are scaled into subdivisions
• the levels are scaled-up into a massive wheel-of-wheels that represent the greater subdivision of the music into beats and measures, presenting the music on a larger scale

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check out the project code on github

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check out the soundtrack on bandcamp

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Gameplay

Match your button presses with the markers rotating around the wheels when they meet in the center.

default controls: 

left trigger: a, s, or d

right trigger: j, k, or l

Add as many inputs as you like to the left or right buttons.

Runs best if system audio sample rate is set to 44.1

Players - please consider trying the web and the windows or mac versions of the game! Note that you may need to give the appliucation permission to be able to run since it is not from a "known developer." See installation instructions below.