Only the first five ever drop. Two islands meeting make a rainbow.
Mix plays the recorded steel guitar, then the island band, and back.
A game by JAMS · J4M5 Digital LLC.
The pieces are plants and animals of Hawaiʻi’s shores and reefs, named in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi with English beside them. The pulelehua (Kamehameha butterfly) is found only in Hawaiʻi.
Cultural review: in progress.
Art: JAMS, made with Google Gemini.
Music: “Old Steel” by matthew_c_wright (freesound.org/s/871168), CC BY 4.0. The island band is played live in your browser: ukulele from recorded single notes, with slack-key guitar, upright bass and steel guitar synthesized. Ukulele notes: “Ukulele Sample Pack” by little-scale, from SoundPacks.com (royalty-free), tuned and level-matched.
Sounds from Freesound, trimmed and pitched to fit the music:
Physics: Matter.js by Liam Brummitt (MIT). Type: Inika by Constanza Artigas Preller, Lexend by the Lexend Project Authors, and Source Serif 4 by Adobe for the ʻokina (all SIL Open Font License 1.1).
The same drops and tide come back for everyone until midnight. A new set starts tomorrow.