/ VUM
Races, reflex runs, shooters and survival games — played by hitting a drum, running along a keyboard, or mashing the keys already in front of you. They open in a browser on whatever you're holding, and we build them into rooms full of people at festivals, hubs and nights of our own.
/ Drum Race
Every hit is throttle. Stop hitting and you roll out.
/ What it is
Instruments are the best controllers nobody uses. Everything below comes out of taking that seriously.
Games
Races, dives, shooters, survival runs. They load on a laptop, a tablet or a phone, and they play with whatever you have plugged in — or nothing at all.
See all the gamesEvents
We run our own nights and we build stations into other people's — hubs, festivals, showcases. Drum pads, keyboards, big screens, a queue of strangers competing.
See the datesTools
A metronome that isn't awful. Instruments you can just open and play. A score editor and a tuner on the way. Built alongside the games and free while they're early.
See what's out/ Controllers
A game is written around a gesture — hit, hold, run, aim — not around a brand. So the same level works on four pads, on two octaves, or on the row of keys under your fingers right now.
Every game falls back to computer keys. Nothing to plug in, nothing to install.
NowPlug one into the browser and the keys become the controller — steering, aiming, firing.
NowPads and kick triggers run the racing and reflex games. One pad is enough for most of them.
NowLaunchpads, control surfaces, light-up keyboards — anything that speaks MIDI is fair game.
NowHit this, now. Hold that. Run left. None of the games care what sends the signal, which is why the same level plays on four pads, two octaves or the four keys under your left hand.
Here is one, four lanes wide. Nothing in it is a note — it is a block, on a line, arriving now.
/ Try one
Catch the blocks on the line. A S D F, or tap a lane.
/ In the lab
Not everything has a cable. So we're teaching the browser to listen — pitch, attack, pulse, tone, loudness, pulled out of the microphone about twenty times a second and turned into something a game can read.
You play a few seconds of what "go fast" sounds like, and a few of what "stop" sounds like, and after that your own trumpet, snare or guitar is the gamepad. No adapter, no pickup, no special instrument.
/ Events
We run our own nights, and we drop stations into other people's programmes — festivals, creative hubs, showcases, launches, school halls. Each station is self-contained: it boots, it explains itself, and it survives a thousand people in a day.
Three drummers, three cars, one straight. Every hit is throttle — stop hitting and you roll out.
Ten seconds, one bass drum, as many hits as your feet can produce. Warm up, Fast, Blaze, Inferno, Insane.
One pad runs everything — menus, difficulty, both games. You count with hits, the screen counts with dots.
Five arcade classics, all played on a light-up keyboard. The keys are the controller.
Fastest Player is ten seconds long and has one rule. That's deliberate: at an event nobody reads instructions, they watch the person in front of them and then take their turn.
On the floor it's a bass drum and a double pedal. Here it's a button — the tiers are the same ones the station uses.
/ Station demo
Ten seconds. Hit as many times as you can.
0.0 hits / second · peak 0.0
/ The quiet part
Nobody at a station is told they're practising. They're trying to win. The hands learn the instrument anyway — that part happens quietly, without a single mention of a scale.
/ Products
Games, instruments and a metronome, all in a browser, none of them asking for money or an account. A score editor and a tuner are close behind.
/ Questions
A browser. That's the honest answer. Every game works on the computer keyboard first and gets better if you plug something in. No download, no account, no launcher.
The browser games do — touch replaces the keys. The event stations are a different animal: real pads, real triggers, and a screen big enough for a crowd to watch you lose.
If it speaks MIDI, yes, today. If it just makes a sound — a trumpet, a snare, a guitar — that's what we're building now: the browser listens and turns the way you play into controls.
That's most of what we do. We run our own nights and build stations into other people's programmes — hubs, festivals, showcases, launches. Tell us the room and the crowd and we'll tell you what fits.
/ Get in touch
New games, new tools, and where the stations turn up next. One line about who you are is enough to point you at the right thing.