Moles popping up in the garden theme

As part of ICPL's year-long Music is the Word program, we have commissioned a new game for Mabel the Table in the Children's room, called "Tune It Up!". It was developed by Virtually Competent, a local independent gaming company. This group created one of the original games for the table called Ship Shape. Virtually Competent teamed up with a local musician to build a musically-themed game for the table.

Notes as ships in the Space Theme

In this game, multiple players can contribute to a looping composition. The game features 3 different themes that cater to different tastes: Garden, Space and Cookies. For example, in the garden theme, players plant various seeds that turn into musical flowers in the garden. Each type of flower represents a different instrument. It is a cooperative game.

Touching the bee speeds up the tempo

Anyone can step up and help with the composition and here are no winners or losers. Tune It Up! also features a mini-game within each theme. For example the garden has an infestation of moles that can be whacked and the space theme has asteroids that have to be destroyed. Also each theme has a character that can speed the tempo up or slow it down. The Children's staff can save compositions created by kids and used as demos.

Come try it out on Mabel the Table in the Children's Room.