Monomals

I’m a musician who composes and arranges MIDI tracks using piano roll editors and I have to say, this is amazing! The game is cute and fun while catching Monomals but then the real fun starts for musicians when you get to use them, basically as virtual instruments, to create original music. I’ve never played a game quite like this and I love it. I might even try to get my near 3-year old to play with the editor because I think it would be a great way for kids to learn to make music in DAWs. In the beginning you’re limited to just 4 tracks (drums, bass and lead) and one monomal (VST), but I’m guessing you can expand that to more tracks and get a nice assortment of sounds. I like that you can save original compositions and share them online. You can even get votes and climb the leaderboard with your original tracks and that’s awesome. Musicians will love this game, and so will anyone else with a pulse.

There have been so many times where I want to change a huge structure of a song I’m making but in order to that you have to delete each individual monomal because if you press and hold to choose how much area you want to delete, it will delete Monomals you don’t want to place down again. For that matter you might as well just restart the entire song. Plus there is a bug where if you try to delete something while the bar is moving, the game will place a monomal on top of the monomal you wanted to delete and it will crash.(I might be wrong on how the glitch is activated but after countless crashing that’s what I’ve come up with) Can you implement an option where you all the player to turn all green snake Monomals into red octopus monomals So that if they want to hear what the song would sound like when doing so, it wouldn’t be so time consuming and glitchy. I love this game very much and I’m always making songs that I’m not sure if I want to publish but still keep editing them to my liking. I absolutely love the new rock and roll DJ😀

This is one of the best games Apple Arcade has to offer, even if you don’t care for the music-making part of it, which is pretty much optional. It reminds me a lot of old-school 2-D Sega games, bursting with color and creativity in ways never before explored. If you enjoy water levels in other platform games you’ll probably like this. I couldn’t really get into the music side of things, but it’s nice that it’s there. Though I found the music submission concept confusing. It makes it seem like you can listen to and rate songs submitted by other players and have other players listen to your song, but really it just arbitrarily gives your song a “chart position” based on arbitrary mystery criteria with no clear benefit to the player. I honestly wouldn’t have bothered with it if I’d understood that this was all it offered. I’d probably be upset if I’d gone to the trouble of composing an actually good song and then couldn’t find a way to share it with others. I don’t really understand why the song has to be at least 20 seconds long if no one will ever hear it.