Appendix F — Glossary

One word for each idea, used the same way everywhere in the game and in this book.

aiming dots: the white dots that show the flight
block: one piece of a tower (wood post, wood plank, stone cube, stone plank, ice cube)
calm motion: the Motion setting that turns movement effects off
card number: cardIndex: a card’s place on its map, 0 for the first card, top left; every part of the card knows it
cut line: the height in a tower above which every block falls
Director: the invisible Object that carries one menu screen’s own Logic: Title Director, Places Director, Stages Director (the Field’s is Game Rules)
Dot State: what one aiming dot knows: its number (dotNumber), told by the slingshot as it makes the dot
Field: the Scene where a stage is played
finale: what happens after stage 120
flourish: the short rising run a found note plays
happy note: the note the player flings
hint arrow: the arrow after two wrong notes
How to play card: the first-time explanation
Map Grid: what a map’s Director shares: how many cards (cardCount) and how many to a row (cardsInARow)
material: what a floor or a block is made of: wood, stone or ice (the Block Kinds table’s material column, the Floors table’s material column); the Materials table has one row per material, named the same: its support, how many supports stand one on another, its plank and the Sound of its knock
message: the short words in the pill near the top
opening: the notes singing once from low to high before the first call
pitch: how high a note sounds, kept as a MIDI number (60 is middle C); the Pitches table has one row per pitch the game uses, named by the note (“F3”)
place: one group of ten stages with its own backdrop and tune (12)
Place Map, Stage Map: the two choosing Scenes
pull: how far and which way the band is drawn back
rolling slowdown: rollingSlowdown (Fly): how strongly the happy note slows itself down once it rolls on the ground
shot: one fling of the happy note, from letting go until it comes to rest
singing note: a note sitting in a tower that sings its pitch
slingshot: the tuning-fork slingshot; its “band” holds the happy note
stage: one puzzle (120 of them)
stages per place: $stagesPerPlace: how many stages each place has (10), one Project Global read wherever a place’s stages are counted
standing / falling: a block before and after it is knocked loose (“comes loose” and “cameLoose” name that moment)
stars: what a stage earns for listening (0 to 3)
start delay: startDelay (Bob While Waiting): a singing note’s own moment before its first swing, kept so it starts there again
support: the block (or stack of two cubes) holding a floor up at each side; “plank” is the block across them
the call: the singing note the game plays and asks for; “called note”
tower: one stack of floors; each “floor” is two supports and a plank; a “roof” is two cubes on top. The Tower Plans table has one row per tower of every stage, the Floors table one row per floor
tune: a place’s (or the title’s) background music
win card: the card after a stage is won
wrong note: a singing note that is not the call