Playhear : Square Paper City
How an Electronic Music Album would sound and look if it was a Video Game?
Welcome to a new way to listen to music with this first opus of Playhear, a series of musical pieces made into games!
Surreal City
Settled in a weird and minimalistic place, Square Paper City is a Musical Walking Simulator with mazes, some puzzles and a bouncy and dynamic world.
A new way to play a music album
This interactive experience will make you live and feel a music LP as something new: semi-procedural, designed according to the game and the levels, moving and modulating according to your actions. The simplest inputs have dramatic consequences over your musical experience.
There’s also rhythmic totems to test your rhythm abilities, some shooting skills to help you find your way in the monochromatic mazes, some light Parkour, and other fancy mechanics.
Made with experimentations in mind
I made this game in solo, following my emotions and knowledge, testing visual technologies and interactive audio systems to provide a psychedelic but dynamic and fun walking game in a living painting!
I have also been working closely with some audio plugin developers as a tester and sound designer.
This game is a tribute to them (Unfiltered Audio, Rhizomatic, UVI, Bitwig, Sugar Bytes…) and to experimenters.
Finally, here’s the
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Push the Boundaries of the Way we Play/Listen to Music: a technical and artistic approach to interactive music
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Automatic Writing and Serendipity: a surreal way of composing the story and developing the game content with serendipity.
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Minimalistic Systems and UI: more immersion for the player. No complexity, immediate onboarding.
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Synaesthesia: attempt to make a world that lives according to music and visual connections.
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Focus on Experimental Art and Trippy Mood: I wish to experiment on both the technical art and the interactive music system in order to push the boundaries of abstract and artistic games.
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Diversity in electronic music genres: as I always done in my musical career
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This Game is an Instrument as Much as it is an Art Piece: give the opportunity to the player to play the game as an album or live show during a party or whatever.
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Use a Limited Range of Instruments: especially those that I’m testing for audio developers friends and a few others that I really need for the overall quality of the music
A game made by Tomavatars
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Red White Yellow
in the order of red, white, and yellow.
Red, White and Yellow is a puzzle game using three types of blocks: red, white and yellow.
When six of each color are lined up, they disappear, but they can only be erased in the order of red, white, and yellow.
If you line up the next color when the blocks are disappearing, you can automatically chain them together and make them disappear.
erasing blocks and connecting background music.
The best feature of this game is that the background music is played only while the blocks are disappearing, and environmental sounds are played when the blocks are not disappearing.
If you keep erasing blocks in a chain, the background music will be connected.
Read More: Best Electronic Music 2D Games.
Gravity Runner
An innovative platformer/runner from an indie dev. It’s fun and hard - each level ramps up the difficulty and throws some new obstacles at you. I love the aesthetics - the scenery, lighting and soundtrack set up a cool vibe.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
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A fun neon endless runner. As you progress more mechanics get introduced and the levels become trickier - and as you fall behind things get more chaotic and difficult!
Huge fan of the cyber neon graphic style.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Emanate
You awake in limbo with a choice - await your fate, or find an escape. Leap your way to freedom with high speed movement and high-stakes obstacles. Experience Emanate’s atmospheric environment and fast paced soundtrack as you climb your way to the top in this single-level 3D platformer!
Gameplay
Emanate is a single-level, vertical world filled with jumping patterns made up of various platforming mechanics. The most common of which are the orange/red bounce pads, purple wall-jump pads, and the fading platforms, that vanish from under your feet after a very short amount of time. Combining these simple mechanics urges you to keep moving forward, making for some incredibly challenging and intense platforming gameplay.
What to expect
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Moody, atmospheric environments: Starting from the bedrock of oblivion, up through deep ethereal forests and vast looming clouds, to huge other-worldly cathedrals.
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Fast, exciting soundtrack: An ambient, break-techno tracklist that increases in speed and intensity as you progress through the game.
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Emanation orbs: You have three chances per checkpoint to learn the patterns ahead of you. If you fall, expend an orb and you’ll recall back to the last checkpoint you activated. Any misstep after your orbs are gone and you’ll find yourself falling back down below.