Looking for an engaging, non-branded online game for your young ones? Try the Tiny Drum Machine. Not a “kids’ game” per se, it nevertheless entertained my four-year-old for better parts of this afternoon. It’s a simple music-making program where you can specify notes and tempo or let it randomly entertain you.
There are five variations, all based on clicking squares in a grid to make the notes. They vary in sound, with some more drum-like (one and two), and others approaching a mandolin-like tunefulness (three to five).
A couple of usability tips: 1) You sometimes need to click the green grid before the R for randomize feature will work; 2) the tempo controller slides horizontally to speed up or slow down.
(Thanks, Download Squad.)