Animal Sound Mixer Game

Background

When I became a new father, tablets and smart phones were still in their early years. But even at the early stage their usefulness for entertaining busy little toddler bodies was obvious. But it's challenging to find games that are affordable, entertaining, and ... not mind-melting? It's unhealthy for little kids to get much screen time, but YOU KNOW you're gonna put that kid in front of a screen for 5 minutes of peace.

A responsible parent at least tries to make that content beneficial for their child, but that can be a challenge. I've seen a lot of garbage time wasters out there for entertaining kids. I've seen some good animal apps out there that help kids learn animal names and sounds. I thought it would be cool to add another layer to those types of apps by letting kids change things around. Like one of those block games that has pictures of different animals on each side of the block, but the top an bottom can be rotated so you get a cat head with a dog body. The new element is to add sound to go with the visuals.

The Idea

Make an application that shows an animal on the main screen. The animal is divided into panels with head, torso and bottom. You could have vertical panels as well as horizontal panels depending on the animals. The panels can be swiped / rotated to mix the body parts from different animals.

Now here's the fun part: each animal has a sound loop for each body part. For example, the bottom / legs of each animal could be different percussion and bass loops. The torsos could all be harmony loops, and the heads could all be different melody loops. So by mixing up the panels you would get different sounds to go with your crazy animal mashups.

Progress

I took and Android developer class, but it's complex and time consuming still. I'm not sure I will take this one up.