Beautiful snowflake catching music generator

A while back, my friend Rich Vreeland, AKA Disasterpeace, made a Flash game called January where you catch snowflakes on your tongue and each plays a soft, pining note. Rich has been busy lately making music for other video games, but he just pushed out a big update to January. The new version trims down on the storyline in favor of a more capable music generator. It has auto-pilot functionality, a selection of keys to choose from, a pentatonic mode, and the ability to save your generated compositions as MIDI files.

Check out the new version of January and the original version.

• [xgad]

  Spectacular!  It’s nice to actually just have it running in the background of my browser.  Amazing what expressions can come out of an 8-bit resolution.

• [disqus_JR0alyrZhJ]

  If you get a message about needing flash, you can go straight to the swf instead:
  http://january.cc/game/January.swf

• [IndexMe]

  Very nice! Reminds me of software a Japanese programmer artist made that was sold through Voyager, showing fireworks IIRC.