Kinacoustic

Kinacoustic is a music composition game where you bounce melodic Drops onto colored Note Lines that you place. You control musical elements to create simple or complex songs, either original compositions or covers.

Shape the music

You control rhythm with Drop Emitters and the Clock, which let you set the pace of the notes. Pitch covers A, B, C, D, E, F and G across seven octaves, with sharp, flat and natural variants; line color and length determine the pitch. The type of Drop Emitter sets the tone color, or instrument, while line thickness controls dynamics, or volume.

You can create a Sustain Orb to change the sustain of anything that passes through it to the value set on the orb. Global Gravity adjusts how quickly all Drops in the scene fall, and clock controls give you further control over rhythm. The Drag Box Tool lets you copy, paste and move sections of a song.

Create and play

An in-game tutorial teaches the basics as you create the beginning of the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. A PDF manual covers the game's features. The resizable window can be viewed alongside sheet music, including on cramped screens.

Platformer Mode lets you run and jump on the lines you have placed, and use special lines to create varied 2D platform levels. For different sounds, you can subscribe to other players' Sound Packs through Steam Workshop, or make and upload your own. Steam Workshop also supports subscribing to and uploading other user-made content. Playing unlocks Steam Trading Cards, which you can trade with friends or on the community market.