Looking for musical flash game

April 15, 2010 1:09 PM

Several months ago, someone posted a flash game where you drew simple white lines on a black background. White balls hit the white lines and, depending on how hard they hit them, produced a musical note. You could adjust the rate of the balls dropping. I can't find this post.
posted by Foam Pants to MetaFilter-Related at 1:09 PM (11 comments total)

I remember everything.

http://balldroppings.com/js/
posted by Meta Filter at 1:12 PM on April 15, 2010 [7 favorites]

I wish that application was just a bit more interactive, allowing for multiple, editable ball-drop points, deletion of lines, and saving the board state; it would be interesting to see such a visual interpretation of a sustained melody, or perhaps (although this would probably be difficult or impossible to accomplish, given that pitch is tied to impact velocity) even three or four-part harmony.
posted by The Confessor at 1:37 PM on April 15, 2010

You may have more luck with one of the other implementations. They appear to support save and restore as well as movable ball drops.
posted by Meta Filter at 1:43 PM on April 15, 2010

YES! Now I remember why I originally wanted to play it. Who wouldn't want to play a game called balldroppings?
posted by Foam Pants at 1:44 PM on April 15, 2010

Who wouldn't want to play a game called balldroppings?

(Quietly raises hand.)
posted by kate blank at 1:59 PM on April 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

2 mysteries solved in 5 posts. Fantastic job!

Now, who wants pie?
posted by owtytrof at 2:09 PM on April 15, 2010

And by posts, of course, I meant comments.

grumble grumble edit window grumble
posted by owtytrof at 2:10 PM on April 15, 2010

There should be a subsite called find.mefi where we can all post search queries to the extensive hive mind
posted by dng at 2:25 PM on April 15, 2010

Meta Filter, do you remember how to do hyperlinks?
posted by frecklefaerie at 2:49 PM on April 15, 2010

Meta Filter, do you remember how to do hyperlinks?

Self-link.
posted by Meta Filter at 3:29 PM on April 15, 2010

Not really what you're looking for, but Flash god André Michelle has produced some pretty nifty audio toys:

Pulsate
ToneWheels
ToneMatrix
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 3:25 AM on April 16, 2010 [1 favorite]