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Piano City

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Piano City
Developer(s)Room 8 Studio
Publisher(s)Room 8 Studio
EngineCocos 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

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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

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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.[1]

Updates

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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.[2]
  • Update 1.4 (Upcoming) - Christmas theme, new melodies, halls, renewed game balance, bug fixes.

List of compositions

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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

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  1. ^ "Piano City - one of the Best Games of September". Archived from the original on 2014-12-09. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  2. ^ "Halloween update". iTunes. Retrieved 2014-10-12.