Show HN: A Drum Listening Game

[eliasdorneles]

This is a game where you get to practice listening skills.

If you're familiar with a drum machine, you'll get it quickly.

If you're not familiar, try it out, eventually it will click. After playing this game, you'll be halfway familiar with drum machines. =)

I am looking for feedback on how to improve the levels, notably on what could be improved for a smoother progression.

Good luck, have fun!

[vunderba]

Brutally Honest Feedback:

**** LOADING ISSUES ****

Went into the game shows "Click here to play the loop", click Play Loop. Does nothing.

Check Chrome console:

  Initialized level with amountOfSteps = 8
  Not Ready Yet

About 60 seconds later after numerous times clicking "Play Loop" it worked.

You need a spinner/progress bar or some visual indication that the game is still loading.

**** UI / UX ****

What the heck does +22 more mean at the top? 22 remaining levels?

**** SOUND ****

Click the Speaker Icon - no apparent error. Check console:

  Uncaught Error: Sample not found: undefined
  at AudioLibrary.getSample (audio.js:56:13)
  at AudioLibrary.playSampleAfter (audio.js:71:25)

Wait a few seconds - click them again. They work. You've got some serious preloading issues that need to be resolved.

**** POSITIVES ****

I like the switchable color themes, and the sounds seem pretty decent as well.

**** CONCLUSION ****

At this point I just got tired of being a beta tester. I don't care if people use LLMs to make things. I DO care if it results in basic testing being skipped.

[eliasdorneles]

Thanks for trying it out and thank you for the honest feedback.

That's interesting, many friends of mine tested it and nobody reported an issue with loading. (Btw I wrote the audio loading code more than 10 years ago, it wasn't written by any LLM -- you're free to judge tho)

Yes, the +22 at the top means the remaining levels. I need to clarify that, you're the second person that seems confused by it.

Thank you again for the feedback.

[vunderba]

Sure. Honestly I do think you have a game here that seems like it could be fun, so I got frustrated when it didn't work. :)

Hmmm. Well then honestly I'm not sure about the audio. Did you cross-test against a number of browsers? This happened to me on a Mac running Chromium.

Firefox/Chrome both have a Network Throttle. Maybe try setting it to something like 3G/4G (along with disabling the cache) and see if that helps to repro the issue?

[eliasdorneles]

Tbh I've only personally tested on Firefox (desktop and mobile) on Linux and Android, and some friends tried on Chrome. I'm going to install Chromium and see if I can reproduce -- thanks!