About Willowmere

Amongst my other projects, I have been noodling with the river of reverence, and now it was time to create a musical version of this. Rather than go the approach I had been taking, which was build music making tools or structures and try to place a game around them (or vice versa, taking a game and trying to add musical rules around it) I decided I’d go for a musical piece, that must be 100% replicable with the musical toy experience.

The song choice was easy, Gymnopédie No. 1 by Satie, which had very conveniently popped up on HBO’s Classical Baby that I was watching with my 3 year old. The idea of the leaves hitting the water was the core component, and then the distance you click to drop them created the… stage? Stave? You get it, you can play it a little like a piano. You can tap the tree or press space to drop a leaf from the willow too.

AI (as you can guess) played a little more of a hand in this, I tried and failed quickly at creating the composition, which it did extremely easily.

This is probably the most beautiful thing on this site, though I do have a soft spot for ascii art. There’s lots of small easter eggs (8 or 9 I think) that can be found.

Changelog

• Initial release