I spent a whole day looking for royalty free music for the birdie game. Everything was either copyrighted or unsuitable, so decided to attempt writing some new music for it instead. I had the notion of using the keyboard to write something so I did a search on Google and eventually found an amazing program called the Tune Smithy.
I wrote a piece of music and uploaded it but it was over 6MBs and bits of it had my hubby climbing the walls. Maybe it was the high pitched flute part... anyway it was taking too long to load so I edited it down to an 18 second loop. I think it works better and I like the way the bird tweets take up the melody.
I started on the ending animation (hence the flock of birdies) when my niece, who has a 5 year old, suggested I let the child tidy the leaves up as they like to feel they are doing something. Thinking it over, this made sense, so I implemented it. I would have liked to add a sweeping brush cursor but you can't change the cursor in a Processing applet online. I suppose I could have just added an image next to the cursor...
So now I need to add a dialog and an ending for when the leaves have been picked up.
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
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