Drum Fun with Kieran Gaffney

With over over 10 Million Youtube views, Kieran Gaffney is one of Britain’s Got Talent most memorable and likeable ever contestants.

This app is the official Kieran Gaffney drum fun sensation and sponsored by Sabian cymbals.

Game: Can you defeat the rock n roll villain and get through the levels to become champion drummer. In the game you will have to hurdle drums and muscial equipment in order to defeat the evil guitar playing villain. You will also need to collect Sabian cymbals to accumulate points and hearts in order to stay alive and have the energy to complete the game.

Secret Game: By finding out what to tap, where and how many. You will unlock another secret game…. good luck!

3 different drum kits: You can bash away on these life like drum kits, creating your own unique sounds for as long as you wish. Stay tuned for our competition on the best drum sequence from the app.

Kieran drum tones: Kieran has specially drummed his heart out and produced some exclusive drum sequences for you to set as your ringtone or wake up call in the morning!

Kieran Mobile Zone: Kieran has also recorded his own voice and drums, where you can set these as your ringtone, wake up alarm and email notification (both for mac and pc).

Developed for iOS – iPhone & iPad.

Developed for for Android – All arm6 – arm7 onwards devices.

Drum fun was initially specced up to be a ringtone style app, where by the end user could listen to a sound by Kieran Gaffney, then email it to themselves to install on their device.

After discussions with the client, we decided to add more features.
Multiple Drum Kits, a full Donkey Kong style game and some other ‘extras’ to keep the end user engaged.

App high level schematic

Application high-level view
Prior to all development we always create a high-level schematic flow of the app. This ensures ourselves and the clients know what ‘should’ be happening at key points within the app, and the screens to expect.

In App Game [Main] Kieran Drum Roll
The client wanted to recreate the 80’s classic Donkey Kong for the main game, but have it themed for Kieran Gaffney.

(Original 80’s classic – Donkey Kong)

The base layer for the game we created.
Following the layout of platforms, ladders, jumping, a hero and something to jump over. We came up with having an evil rockstar rolling drum kits down the level, as Kieran had to run along trying to get to the top to save his precious drum kit.

We then added all the screen sprites that interact with the player.

Some of the basic sprite animations