DD3992 - Types of Music Games
- Music Memory Games: Test a players musical memory
- Sight Reading Music Games: Mainly Use rhythm, pitch and volume
- Rhythm Games: Player has to press the right button at the right time
- Guitar Hero
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Donkey Konga
- Pitch Games: Tests players ability to match the pitch of the game
- Singstar
- Lips
- Rock Band - microphone
- Volume Games: Player has to affect the volume
- Mad Maestro! - pressure of button press
- Wii Music - Wiimote angle adjusts volume
- Eidetic Music Games: Player has to memorise and repeat back music
- Music Management Games: Equivalent to sports management the player has to manage a music act
- Total Distortion
- Make My Video
- Free Form Music Games: Music creation games takes predominance over gameplay – can be described as sandbox
- Electroplankton
- SimTunes
- Fluid
- Music Art Games: emphasizes artistic aspects of musical gameplay, often lack narrative and are similar to non games
- Moondust
- Tranquility
- MusicVR
- Hybrid Music Games: substantial interactions between player and music in a game that would belong to a non musical genre
- Otocky (generative hybrid game)
- Pteranodon (reactive hybrid game)
- Generative Music Game: User actions trigger sounds which add to the soundtrack
- Reactive Music Game: Form the gameplay from the music
- Pteranodon
- Rhyme Rider Kerorican
- IS - Internal Section
- Reactive Form Music Games: A solely music game where music forms the gameplay
- Audiosurf
- Vib-Ribbon
- Dance Factory
- Mixed Genre Games: Typically party games of different genres merged under one narrative – featuring musical elements
- Feel the Magic: XY/XX
- The Rub Rabbits!
- RPG
- Ragnarawk
- Music for Concert Performance: Musical performer navigates a dynamic interactive manuscript (game-score)
