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MEWER 0.9

The next version MEWER is online. The difficulty level has been calibrated[1], and I've added a third variant of MEWER. This new variant includes an audible metronome! However, the metronome is quite unreliable. If it works on your computer, great; if not, don't say I didn't warn you. Try it here: MEWER 0.9.

I still think MEWER is now feature-complete for 1.0 -- I'm not planning on adding any more features; merely fixing any bugs people find.

[1] My preferred calibration method was to have four glasses of wine and then play the game on "easy". I figured that I'd keep on reducing the difficulty level until I could finish the game while drunk; that would probably be an appropriate level for students with one year of musical training.

But then I remembered that I don't drink alcohol, so I had to abandon my "drunken rhythm game" test. Instead, I started watching some bad anime, and played the game with my attention split between the anime and the game. I finished "easy" with no difficulty. Calibration for the "hard" difficulty level was performed by playing the game without any distractions.

This isn't an ideal scientific calibration, of course -- I should really be doing some kind of double-blind study on dozens of music students of various ability levels -- but I can't do that kind of experiment until MEWER is much more widely used.

MEWER 0.8

The next version MEWER is online. This adds a "skip to level" option (if you want to practice triplets, or just see what the harder levels are like), and misc minor UI improvements. Try it here: MEWER 0.8.

I think MEWER is now feature-complete for 1.0 -- I'm not planning on adding any more features; merely fixing any bugs people find.

MEWER 0.7

The next version MEWER is online. This adds a main menu, Tutorial, Tips, and (for flash) Input select functions. Try it here: MEWER 0.7.

I'm not certain what this leaves. I have mixed feelings about changing to a non-sequential series of levels... I mean, yes, it's a good idea. But I think it would involve more work than I have time for at the moment. It certainly isn't something necessary for version 1.0. Right now I want to check for anything important missing (like typos in the tutorial explanation, or missing info) before declaring it 1.0 and advertizing it to more people.

Update 2008-11-28 6:52: changed URL to match new site layout.