SimTunes
Toshio Iwai, Benimaru Itoh, UrumaDelvi, and others (included songs) • Series — Sim • Platforms — Windows • Released — 1996 • Genre — Simulation • Modes — Single-player SimTunes is a children's software toy designed by Toshio Iwai and released by Maxis in 1996. It involves painting a picture using large pixels, where each color represents a musical note. The player places up to four different-colored Bugz, which represent musical instruments or vocal syllables, on this picture, and can change their starting directions and relative speeds.
SimTunes
- Date
- 1996.
- Publisher
- Maxis.
- Genre
- music video game and simulation video game.
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The Bugz crawl over the picture, playing notes corresponding with the colors; and they turn, move randomly, or jump in response to function symbols that can be added to the dots. Originally developed in the early 1990s by Iwai as a game titled Sound Fantasy for the Super NES/Super Famicom. Many of the ideas and elements in Sound Fantasy are present in SimTunes.
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• Title — SimTunes • Developer — Maxis • Publisher — Maxis • Designer — Toshio Iwai • Producer — Michael Wyman • Programmer — Heather Mace • Artist — Toshio Iwai • Composer — Jerry Martin (main theme and samples)
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