Coming in Whokoban 2.5
The band
Thirty-six tunes on ten instruments, and not one audio file: the game plays every note itself.
In Whokoban 2.5, the levels play to a band: accordion, trumpet, clarinet, tuba, banjo and glockenspiel, with a bass drum, a snare, a woodblock and a tambourine. Four tunes for the levels, a polka for the title, and for every season the polka in its own dress and four tunes more. None of it is a recording: the game carries no audio files, and plays every note on a synthesiser of its own as it goes. The player below does the same — it runs that synthesiser in your browser, sample for sample, so what you hear here is what you hear in the game.
- 36
- Tunes
- 10
- Instruments
- 6
- Seasons
- 0
- Audio files
iPhone and iPhone Duo · iOS 17 or later · US$2.99, one time
Ready when you are · Arcade look
Crate Polka
Trumpet over an oompah, with a bounce.
The tune as written. Slide right and the band hurries, and gets nervous.
| Title | Levels | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polka | Rush | Waltz | Jack | Rag | |
| All year | |||||
| Autumn | |||||
| Halloween | |||||
| Christmas | |||||
| Winter | |||||
| Spring | |||||
| Summer | |||||
| FlyCraft | |||||
Each tune loops, as it does under a level. Pick one, or skip through all thirty-six.
The seasons
Every season has its look
The same level in each of the six. Press one to hear its polka.
In Whokoban 2.5
When you hear which
- A tune a levelEvery level draws one of the band's four at random, never the one you just heard. The title screen plays Crate Polka.
- The seasonsWhile a season is on, the polka turns up in its dress, and the season's own four join the draw beside the band's.
- Herbie's FlightWear the FlyCraft look and Herbie's own tune takes the title, and comes up about every other level.
- The move capThe closer you get to it, the faster the band plays, and a clock starts ticking. The slider above does it by hand.
And the speaker on the title screen opens a listening booth: every tune, in season or out, to hear whenever you like.
Get Whokoban on the App Store