Sonotris: Testing the Influence of Musical Tempo on Tetris Players Performance

In this demo paper, we present Sonotris, a Tetris game with a dynamic soundtrack specifically designed to experiment with the influence of musical tempo on player performance. The different stages of the game use music whose tempo is either perfectly synchronous with the game, or accelerates progres...

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Main Authors: Aline, Hufschmitt, Stephane, Cardon, Eric, Jacopin
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Game difficulty
music
player performance
stress
tempo
Tetris
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Summary:In this demo paper, we present Sonotris, a Tetris game with a dynamic soundtrack specifically designed to experiment with the influence of musical tempo on player performance. The different stages of the game use music whose tempo is either perfectly synchronous with the game, or accelerates progressively to prepare the speed steps, or is slightly out of sync, or in total opposition to the tension of the game. Our first tests on a group of 41 players showed a significant influence of tempo on the performance of novice players in Tetris and even more for those with a neutral evaluation of the music.
ISSN:2325-4289
DOI:10.1109/CoG47356.2020.9231947