This game will improve your scale identification skills!

Boulders will fall from the top of the screen. These boulders will have sheet music of scales on them. The user will have to use the keyboard to choose what type of scale it is (Major/minor). There will be a settings menu where the user can choose which scales (Major, Natural minor, Harmonic minor, Melodic minor, Mixolydian, etc.), clefs (Treble, Bass, Alto, Tenor, etc.), and amount of ledger lines they want. If the boulders land before the user has figured out what type of scale it is, they loose 5 points. One point is awarded for each scale correctly identified on the first try. Subsequent tries reduce the points awarded by 50%. The left and right arrow keys are used to select different falling boulders, so that when there are multiple falling at the same time, the user can tell the game which one they are guessing.

Use the number keys to select an action from the main menu

• Use the left and right arrow keys to select a boulder; selected boulders appear darker than unselected ones
• Using the keys as specified to the right of the screen below the score, select which type of scale you think the currently selected boulder has on it
• If you're right, your score will increase, if you're wrong, nothing will happen until the boulder hits the ground or you get it correct
• Each subsequent guess will make you get fewer points from that boulder
• If the boulder touches the ground, you'll get negative points!
• To pause the game, press space; this will stop the boulders from falling, but you won't be able to see the scales!
• To return to the main menu, press Esc/escape

• Use the settings menu to adjust various settings
• You can adjust which standard scales and church modes you want to practice
  • Press the keys indicated to the side to toggle a scale type
  • If it's greyed out, it's disabled, if it's dark, it's enabled
• You can change which clefs you want to practice
  • This works in the same way as adjusting the scale types
• You can change how many ledger lines you want to use
  • Use the left and right arrow keys to change if you're adjusting the upper ledger lines or the lower ones
  • Use the up and down arrow keys to move the most extreme notes up and down
• Press Esc/escape to exit the settings menu as a whole or to exit the various sub menus in it

• Name: Rowan Ackerman
• Email: [email protected]

I can't claim to remember all of the sources that I used, but the ones that I used most extensively were:

• The documentation and source code for Designer
• StackOverflow (I used many posts, mostly in very small amounts)
• Python's Documentation
• Geeks for Geeks
• W3Schools

• Create a boulder class
  • Create the boulders randomly at the top of the screen
  • Make the boulders fall
  • Allow the user to select different boulders using the L/R arrow keys
  • When a boulder hits the bottom of the screen, decrease the score by 10 and remove the boulder object
• Create a scale class
  • Store scale objects in boulder objects
  • When a boulder is selected and a scale key is pressed, check if it corresponds with the right scale type. If it does, remove the boulder and add the proper amount to the score. If it doesn't (and a valid key was pressed), decrease the value of the boulder by 50%.
  • Generate the scale type, etc. randomly
• For this milestone, we'll just display a list of note names without octave numbers.

• Figure out some way to display the sheet music for the scales, given a type, starting note, and clef
  • Ensure that the scales are displayed on top of the boulders
  • Ensure that the scales fall with the boulders
  • Ensure that scales fit within the specs of the default settings
• Increase the speed that the boulders fall as the player gets more correct
• If the player presses escape, return to the main menu
  • Fix entering game again
• Display the score to the user near the right of the screen
• Display a list with the keys that correspond to each scale type below the score
• Automatically generate the boulders, rather than requiring the player to press space to generate them
  • Fiddle with probabilities
• If the player presses space, pause the game and hide the scales
  • Create image for blurry text

• Create a main menu
  • Make the main world accessible from it
• Create a settings menu
  • Allow the user to enter the settings menu from the main menu
  • Allow the user to select different types of scale
    • Standard Scales
    • Church Modes
    • Reset to default if none selected
  • Allow the user to select different clefs
  • Allow the user to select different amounts of ledger lines
  • Allow the user to return from the settings menu by pressing escape
• Ensure that the scales fit within the specs of the user-defined settings
• Note, the settings menu is controlled using the number and arrow keys
• Fix the order of the scale types in World