Games for Music

Acapella games have to be performed without instruments, or are at their best when performed only with singing or "singing". Many games might be adapted to voices, but unfortunately often games loose their balance when voices and instruments are combined.

Dimension. An aspect applicable to a single sound and continuous.
Downbeat. The first measure of the bar, or (in a more free context) a moment when players start to improvise together.
Downtime. A situation during the game when a player is not engaged in play.
EC. [The] Exquisite Corpse, an abbreviation for the most famous surrealist game
Elegant Game. A game that has a relatively low amount of rules for what it does.
Emergence. A phenomenon when thing's qualities are not due to any qualities of its parts but result from interactions between the parts.
End Condition. A rule by which the game ends.
Event (musical event). "Anything" that can happen — (in our case) a unit of music at any given scale of consideration.
Extended technique. Any unusual way of producing sounds with your instruments or voice.
Facilitator. A person who helps a group to work together.
Fighting. A situation during the game when Players exchange actions to establish a winner over an objective.
Flow. disambiguation: Both cognitive flow and gameplay flow are relevant for our wiki.
Found sound. Music material that was not produced by an instrument or vocals.
Free Improvisation. [in one of the understandings it's] a synonym for non-idiomatic music
FROMG. The First Rule Of Music Games: "The main aim of playing a music game is to play good music".
Game piece. Another name for a music game.
Gameplay flow. The quality of gameplay based on interactions between its consecutive stages.
Gamer (role). other name for a: Player
GDQ. Games Done Quick, a charity event about speedrunning.
Genre. A conventional category that identifies some work (piece of music, game, etc.) as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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