Innovating Game Development Speaker Series
"Your Music is the Game: Designing PHASE, the Other Project at Harmonix"
Chris Foster, Harmonix Music Systems
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Lubrano Conference Room (CIT 4th floor)
While the majority of Harmonix built the juggernaut that is "ROCK BAND," a second, smaller team set to work on a game that turns a player's own music collection into an infinite variety of gameplay "levels." This talk outlines the challenges of adapting proven gameplay to a unique platform. When "your music is the game," how do you make that game fun for every conceivable song... even if you aren't strutting around with a plastic guitar?
Speaker Bio:
Chris Foster is a senior designer at Harmonix, and during his 15 years in the industry has worked at Turbine as lead content designer for THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE: SHADOW OF ANGMAR (2002-2006) and live lead designer for ASHERON'S CALL. On PHASE, Chris has split his time between design and programming to bring Harmonix's patented music gaming to the iPod.
Host: Chad Jenkins
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