Skeleton Dance

Skeleton Dance is a quick Halloween rhythm game with four lanes and four friendly skeletons: one in a witch hat, one in a top hat, one with a green bow and one in a party hat. Wrapped candies fall from a big full moon toward four pumpkin pads, and you tap the lane as each candy lands. Hit it and the skeleton on that side strikes a pose; hit ten in a row and the whole troupe pulls a trick, from a spin and a skull toss to a backflip, a cancan kick line, a bone rattle and a star jump. Every tune is original and synthesised live in your browser, so the beat you tap is exactly the beat you hear.

Twenty songs come in four styles: Swing with a xylophone and a walking bass, Mambo with marimba and clave, Polka with an accordion and an oom-pah tuba, and Disco with a wobbly theremin over a four-on-the-floor kick. Tempo and density rise gently, from a relaxed 92 BPM to a busy 142, and each song lasts about a minute. The timing windows are generous, a miss only turns the candy into a little ghost that says boo and floats away, and every song plays to the end.

Each song keeps your high score and up to three glowing pumpkins, and a fresh Daily Dance is generated every day with its own best score. Play with D F J K or the arrow keys, click the lanes with a mouse, or tap them on a phone or tablet. Beat lines and pulsing pads make it fully playable with the sound off, and a short sync screen lines the timing up with your speakers or headphones.