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| Piano City | |
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| Developer(s) | Room 8 Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Room 8 Studio |
| Engine | Cocos 2dx |
| Platform(s) | iOS |
| Genre(s) | Music/Simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Player versus player |
Piano City is a Social Music Game for iOS developed and published by UK-based game development company Room 8 Studio. The game was released on September 24, 2014. Piano City is a music game that takes player to a journey, where he competes in different concert recitals while building up piano skills. The game also has a PvP mode, where anyone can play with other Piano City players.
Gameplay
Player starts at the School Hall with basic songs and progresses through the story, while improving skills, playing both classical music and modern hits. During the journey, players will collect different items and pass musical quests. The game has 4 main characters:
- Magnus - Piano master who will help the player to master his skills.
- Arthur - Young, arrogant but very promising pianist.
- Kim - A friend, that will support the player.
- Tom - Beginner pianist who is often offended by Arthur.
Reception
Piano City was honored by the iOS App Store and listed as #5 in Best Games of September collection and also reached #1 music game rank in 126 countries.
Updates
The game receives regular thematic updates dedicated to holidays.
- Update 1.3 (October 22) - Halloween theme, more than 20 new melodies added (including SIA, PSY, Europe, Yiruma, Katy B), new halls added with more than 40 quests, new collections.
- Update 1.4 (Upcoming) - Christmas theme, new melodies, halls, renewed game balance, bug fixes.
List of compositions
| Free compositions | Premium composition | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Author | Title | Author |
| Twinkle Twinkle | National | Bad Romance | Lady Gaga |
| Little Hans | National | Smoke On The Water | Deep Purple |
| Green Sleeves | National | Chariots of Fire | Vangelis |
| Auf Flugeln des Gesanges | Mendelssohn | Never Let Me Down Again | Depeche Mode |
| Wiegenlied | Mozart | Drops of Jupiter | Train |
| Ode To Joy | Beethoven | It’s Time | Imagine Dragons |
| When The Saints Go Marching In | National | She Will Be Loved | Maroon 5 |
| Edelweiss | National | Your Song | Elton John |
| London Bridge | National | I Was Made For Lovin’ You | Kiss |
| The Blue Danube Waltz | Strauss | On Top Of The World | Imagine Dragons |
| Air on the G String | Bach | This Love | Maroon 5 |
| Lullaby | Brahms | All By Myself | Celine Dion |
| Der Lindenbaum | Schubert | I Will Survive | Gloria Gaynor |
| Requiem Lacrimosa | Mozart | Zombie | Cranberries |
| Salut d'Amour | Elgar | Apologize | OneRepublic |
| Morning Mood | Grieg | Same Mistake | James Blunt |
| The Lord is Risen Today | National | How to Save a Life | The Fray |
| Santa Lucia | National | Counting Stars | OneRepublic |
| Adagio | Albinoni | Valerie | Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse |
| Aria Figaro | Mozart | Chandelier | Sia |
| The Four Seasons Spring Allegro | Vivaldi | Gentleman | PSY |
| Bourree from Suite for Lute | Bach | The Final Countdown | Europe |
| Rigoletto | Verdi | River Flows | Yiruma |
| William Tell Overture | Rossini | Crying for No Reason | Katy B |
| Unfinished Symphony | Schubert | Still Loving You | Scorpions |
| Die Forelle | Schubert | Chasing the Sun | The Wanted |
| Halleluja | Handel | I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Whitney Houston |
| In the Hall of the Mountain King | Grieg | Candle in the Wind | Elton John |
| Swan Lake | Tchaikovsky | The Bad Touch | Bloodhound Gang |
| Les Toreadors from Carmen Suite | Bizet | ||
| Fur Elise | Beethoven | ||
| La Bamba | National | ||
| Wedding March | Mendelssohn | ||
| Traumerei | Schumann | ||
| Triumph March from Aida | Verdi | ||
| La Cucaracha | National | ||
| Menuet in G Dur | Bach | ||
| Piano Quintet in E♭ major | Schumann | ||
| Radetzky Marsch | Johann Strauss I | ||
| Wien Bleibt Wien Marsch | Johann Schrammel | ||
| The Hokey Cokey | National | ||
| Minuet | Boccherini | ||
| Rhapsody on a Theme Paganini | Rachmaninoff | ||
| Reverie | Debussy | ||
| Joy to the World | National | ||
| Moonlight Sonata | Beethoven | ||
| L'Amour est un Oiseau Rebelle | Bizet | ||
| The Bell Tolls | Liszt | ||
| Nachtmusik Allegro | Mozart | ||
| Military Marche | Schubert | ||
| Can Can | Offenbach | ||
| Dance of the Little Swans | Tchaikovsky | ||
| Jesu Joy Of Man Desiring | Bach | ||
| Carmen Prelude | Bizet | ||
| If You're Happy and You Know It | National | ||
| Yankee Doodle | National | ||
| Cannon In D major | Johann Pachelbel | ||
| Humoresque | Dvorak | ||
| Swanee River | Foster | ||
| Ride of the Valkyries | Richard Wagner | ||
| Ten Little Indians | National | ||
| Cuckoo | Louis-Claude Daquin | ||
| Cinderella | National | ||
| Trumpeter Serenade | Spindler | ||
| Impromptus | Schubert | ||
| Arabesgue Op 18 | Schumann | ||
| The Entertainer | Scott Joplin | ||
| Song Of The Lark | Tchaikovsky | ||
| Fantasy in D Minor | Mozart | ||
| Italian Song | Tchaikovsky | ||
| Symphony no. 40 | Mozart | ||
| Requiem - Kyrie Eleison | Mozart | ||
| Toccata and Fugue in D | Bach | ||
| The Nutcracker | Tchaikovsky | ||
References
- "Piano City - one of the Best Games of September". Archived from the original on 2014-12-09. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
- "Halloween update". iTunes. Retrieved 2014-10-12.