Music Catch
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Music Catch is a widely played music game available for the iOS, Mac OS X
, and Windows
platforms by Reflexive Entertainment
. The fairly simple gameplay is centered around catching, with the cursor, different colored falling shapes that appear on screen in sync with the music playing in the background; shapes of some colors grant extra points while touching red notes incurs penalties. Music Catch has attained great popularity among flash gaming sites such as Kongregate
.
The song featured in the online version is titled "Before Dawn" and was written by Music Catchs developer, Isaac Shepard.
In addition to being playable for free on the web, Reflexive Entertainment has also released a downloadable version that is available for purchase. The downloadable version of Music Catch includes the ability to play along to any MP3
in the user's library. Shepard has stated that this was his original intent all along, but the online version could not accommodate this feature, hence work began on the downloadable version. In May 2009, a version of Music Catch was released for the iOS. A sequel to the game, Music Catch 2, has also been released online.
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
, and Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
platforms by Reflexive Entertainment
Reflexive Entertainment
Reflexive Entertainment is a computer game developer based in Lake Forest, California. The company was founded by Lars Brubaker in 1997...
. The fairly simple gameplay is centered around catching, with the cursor, different colored falling shapes that appear on screen in sync with the music playing in the background; shapes of some colors grant extra points while touching red notes incurs penalties. Music Catch has attained great popularity among flash gaming sites such as Kongregate
Kongregate
Kongregate is an online games hosting website owned by Gamestop Corporation, which allows users to upload user-created Adobe Flash or Unity3D games. It features an API that Flash and Unity developers can integrate into their games which allows users to submit high scores and in some games, earn...
.
The song featured in the online version is titled "Before Dawn" and was written by Music Catchs developer, Isaac Shepard.
In addition to being playable for free on the web, Reflexive Entertainment has also released a downloadable version that is available for purchase. The downloadable version of Music Catch includes the ability to play along to any MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
in the user's library. Shepard has stated that this was his original intent all along, but the online version could not accommodate this feature, hence work began on the downloadable version. In May 2009, a version of Music Catch was released for the iOS. A sequel to the game, Music Catch 2, has also been released online.