Guitarbots: Like Guitar Hero for real guitars, in your browser

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Martin Bryan - 11 February 2013

Swedish startup Ovelin has picked up plenty of awards over the past 18 months since we stumbled upon them demoing their first game WildChords at a conference in Malmo. Now they’re back with another fun take on learning to play the guitar, with the official launch of Guitarbots.

Just like WildChords, GuitarBots is designed to be played with a real guitar, but whereas the previous game was an iPad app, this time it runs on the Web so is open to a much broader audience. As you play notes on an acoustic or electric guitar, your computer’s microphone picks up the sound and uses it to control the game.

Here’s the company’s own demo, explaining how it all works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOlYGNjQh1M&feature=player_embedded

The game takes clear inspiration from Guitar Hero, but with the benefit of working with real guitars and an emphasis on teaching you to play. Whereas WildChords had more of a beginner-focused slant to it, GuitarBots has more than 300 levels covering everyone from beginners to experts. Take a look at this example of one of the tougher challenges, for example…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JvLf77fOgM&feature=player_embedded

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[Tony]

Very interesting, Thankyou !

[Just17]

It looks very good indeed .....  although I got the impression that when slowed the pitch changed .... must have a closer look ...

[Tony]

Closer look good idea, if it's good could be very handy. I watched the Youtube Video and immediately was bored out of my mind, so ... closer look