Gamelan in Your Hands

A student from the Bandung Institute of Technology created a game application for Nokia smartphones. In just three months, more than 29,000 people have downloaded it.

May 25, 2011

GONG, bonang, saron, gambang, gendang, and jengglong. Those six options appear on the main menu screen of Gamelan Player, a new game application created for Nokia cellphones. Without being chased by monsters or required to achieve a certain score, users can peacefully play their desired musical instrument with the touch of a finger. Every gentle touch on a kettledrum picture, for example, generates a sound appropriate to that instrument. The game

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