Show HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game

Hi HN,<p>10 years ago, as my BsC final project I had the idea to make a quick game that used neural nets to detect notes played on a guitar, and I made a small mini-game to make use of that. I always wanted to improve on that idea, so last year I started making my own piano-learning game.<p>You know how in most games you learn complex key combinations and sequences (i.e. Mortal Kombat fatalities), but those don't have much use outside of the game.<p>My idea was to make a game that can be played with the piano, so you you learn notes, chords, scales simply by playing.<p>While making it and prototyping many versions, I realised that that idea didn't work as well as I wanted, because it is hard to focus on reading notes, playing and some other gameplay logic.<p>In the end I settled on a combination of basic beat-based notes playing and a few minigames that use the piano as input. My goal now is to add even more such minigames, for learning different sheet reading, music theory and piano playing techniques.<p>For art, I am unfortunately not a designer and have no budget for hiring one, so I decided to go with some simple shaped art generated in bulk using AI rendering SVGs. Hopefully this is just a placeholder until I find someone to do the art for the game.<p>You can try it out for free, it does have some extra content in the Pro version, but a lotof content is free, including the ability to directly play full songs in scrolling or sheet mode here: <a href="https://game.ultimidi.com/songs" rel="nofollow">https://game.ultimidi.com/songs</a><p>Happy to hear any feedback, especially if the MIDI connection/notes detection didn't work or something doesn't feel good.<p>Thank you!