Calliope Canals

Calliope Canals is a gentle music sandbox set on a steampunk floating market. You are the market's animal keeper: plant sound seeds in tubs on brass calliope boats, place animal performers along the canals, and listen as your tune grows by itself, bar by bar. Every canal lane is one layer of your track. The boats play their tubs one step at a time while the lanes play together, so a bellflower here, a drum gourd there and a reed pipe below already make a song. There are no wrong notes: every seed is tuned to the district's scale, so any combination sounds warm and in tune. GROWING NOTES The twist is that your music is alive. Every plant grows as it plays. After 4 bars a bellflower opens a second flower and its melody climbs a third; a drum gourd swells and gets louder; a reed pipe holds its note longer; a steam whistle learns to slide. After 8 bars each plant reaches full song. Your track keeps changing on its own, so instead of building a tune once, you tend it: prune a plant back to a sprout, or lift it into another tub to rearrange the music. KEY FEATURES ✓ 24 sound seeds in four families: bellflowers, drum gourds, reed pipes and steam whistles ✓ Four animal performers: Captain Quill the goggled mallard, Tumba the water buffalo, the myna pair Pip & Patter, and Brindle the drummer otter. Each colours a whole lane in its own way ✓ 8 canal districts with 64 tune orders, such as "a lullaby in three layers with a bellflower in it" ✓ Three stars per order: for layers, for the blend the buyer asked for, and for liveliness — how much your plants grew while it played ✓ 36 secret combinations that open hand-painted canal scenes ✓ A Recording Log for up to 30 takes that play back exactly as they sounded ✓ A Market Tune every day, with a streak for coming back ✓ Boatwright upgrades: up to 7 lanes, long boats and a steam tempo governor ✓ Sails and awnings to paint your boats, purely for looks HOW IT WORKS 1. The app opens straight onto the canals with a boat already playing. 2. Drag a seed from your tray into a tub, or tap a seed and then a tub. 3. Place an animal on a lane's walkway and hear the lane change. 4. Let it play. Plants bloom at bar 4 and reach full song at bar 8. 5. Prune and replant to steer the tune, then record your favourite takes. 6. Pull down the brass shade to take tune orders, visit the Seed Barge, or browse your scenes. A PAINTED WORLD Every boat, plant, animal and scene is painted in loose watercolour: brass calliopes, straw awnings, wooden boardwalks, lantern-lit quays and a striped fishmonger airship drifting over the water. All of the sounds were made for this app. CALM BY DESIGN There is no timer, no failure and no pressure. Copper notes, the market's only currency, are earned by playing and spent on seeds, upgrades and boat paint. Nothing in the app is ever sold for real money. PRIVACY Calliope Canals works fully offline. There is no account, no ads, no tracking, and your market is saved only on your device. Grow a little market of music, one bar at a time.