Finally made enough progress that it doesn’t feel embarrassing. Although, actually, the application looks exactly the same as it did five hours ago. However, it now does quite a lot more, after a lot of faffing about with Java’s MIDI classes. I think I’m just about on track.

I’ve been vaguely planning something around the gamification of musical ear training for ages now. I’ve never quite cracked the core mechanic though. During the theme voting this week I’d idly started thinking about something completely unrelated along the ‘parallel worlds’ theme, but the winning theme of ‘evolution’ gave me a new idea for an ear training game that might actually work.

If the grid on the right of the screen reminds you of tonematrix at all, then that’s not entirely co-incidental. However, there’s a lot more to it than that (lots still to do on the left hand side of the screen…). I’ve suffered slightly so far from lack of preparation (spent a while this morning just setting up my dev environment and getting the library working) but things are going pretty smoothly now.

Anyway, I missed lunch and other people keep posting pictures of food, so I think it’s time for a break…