I wanted a microphone project with a very small brief: hear a sound, copy it, and see how close you got. That became Mimic Party Online , a browser game where each round gives you a short sound cue and one recording attempt. The cue might be a meme clip, an animal call, a machine noise, or something that is hard to describe without making the sound yourself. It looks like a toy, and it is. It also turned into a useful little audio problem. A score based only on volume would be boring, so ...