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Brick Beats

The plate is the song. Left to right is time, low to high is pitch. The colour is the instrument, a longer brick is a longer note, a stacked brick plays louder. Press play and build while it plays.

Instrument

Brick

Tap the plate to put a brick. Tap the same brick again to stack it (louder). Pick Take off to remove one.

Try a plate

On a real plate

The real version: bricks on a real plate, a phone looks at it, and the plate plays. Move a brick with your fingers and the song changes. It needs the same plate reader as the Living Plate: find the plate's corners, read the colour on every stud. One reader, many games: a song, a living world, a game level.

Not built yet: the camera part. Here you build on screen; the rules of the song are the same.

Other prototypes: Draw a machine, build it, test it · Living Plate.