About Dialed GG

Who We Are

Dialed GG is a solo indie project. There is no company behind it, no venture funding, no product team — just one developer who wanted to answer a simple question: how accurately can you actually remember what you just heard or saw?

The project started as an experiment with the Web Audio API and quickly turned into a full game once friends started competing over who could score higher. Every part of Dialed GG — the game mechanics, the scoring models, the UI — is designed, built, and maintained by a single person.

Why Sensory Memory Games?

Most games test reflexes, strategy, or knowledge. Dialed GG tests something more fundamental: raw sensory recall. You hear a tone for three seconds, then silence. You see a color for a few seconds, then it vanishes. In both cases, you have to recreate what your brain just absorbed — and you discover that your memory is far less precise than you assumed.

This gap between confidence and accuracy is what makes sensory memory games compelling. Research in cognitive psychology shows that echoic memory (sound) typically decays within 3–4 seconds, and iconic memory (vision) fades in less than one second. Players are often shocked at how quickly the precise details of a tone or color slip away, even though the overall impression feels intact.

Why Do People Keep Playing?

Three things keep players coming back to Dialed GG:

• The surprise factor. Almost everyone overestimates their sensory memory. Your first game is humbling. Scoring a 28 out of 50 when you expected a 40 creates an immediate urge to try again.
• Measurable improvement. Unlike many casual games, Dialed GG gives you a precise numeric score based on psychoacoustic and perceptual models. You can track exactly how much better you get with each session. Players typically improve by 5–8 points across their first ten games.
• Social competition. The challenge system lets you send a friend the exact same set of tones or colors you played. Comparing round-by-round scores creates a specific, personal competition that generic leaderboards cannot match.

These three elements — surprise, progress, and rivalry — combine into a loop that works even for people who do not usually play browser games. A single game takes under two minutes, which makes it easy to fit into breaks and commutes.

Built With Science

Dialed GG scoring is not arbitrary. The sound game uses an ERB (Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidth) psychoacoustic model, the same framework used in hearing research to model how the human cochlea perceives pitch. The color game uses the CIEDE2000 perceptual color difference formula, the current international standard for measuring how different two colors look to the human eye.

These models ensure that your score reflects how close your guess sounds or looks to the target, not just how numerically close the raw values are. A 10 Hz error at 100 Hz is scored differently from a 10 Hz error at 1000 Hz, because the perceptual impact is different.

Get In Touch

Found a bug? Have an idea for a new game mode? Just want to share a particularly impressive (or hilariously bad) score? Reach out at support@dialedgg.io. We read every email.