Empty Clip Studios has announced that its upcoming PC game Symphony will be available on August 6, 2012 for $9.99. The game is a trippy bullet-hell shooter with a twist: it uses the music on your PC. Customary features include funky visuals, ship upgrades, and a variety of weapons to blow up random objects with. Levels are randomly generated depending on the song you select. Here’s more from the press release:
Melodies, beats and emotion drive everything in Symphony, one of the most intense music-based games to date. In this vertical-shooter, players select music from their own collections, with each song creating a unique battlefield. Making their way through their own custom-created playlists, players customize their ship, discover and upgrade items to defeat bosses and ultimately, liberate the “Symphony of Souls” from a mysterious entity and reclaim their music.
After being enchanted by Dyad for the last couple of weeks, I’m totally down with more shooters with psychedelic graphics. I’m especially looking forward to changing things up by mixing an eclectic mix of artists. My initial plan is to start with A Tribe Called Quest, move onto Simon and Garfunkel, and wrap up my first gameplay session with Metallica.
Check out the gameplay clip below and please let me know if you’re interested in Symphony. What songs and artists in your music collection would you like to mash up in the game?
Buying this.
Will use some Pink Floyd, King Diamond and Opeth.
Addendum you can preorder for $8 on Steam.
I want to see Lindsey Stirling’s violin dubstep, Crystallize. You should listen to it, it’s pretty good! Plus, a few different Vocaloid songs that I could name off would work pretty well…
Speaking of music-based games, Gamestop doesn’t have Sound Shapes in their database. Did something go wrong?
Did Sony announce a retail version of Sound Shapes? I thought it was going to be downloadable.
I asked when I stopped by today, and they said there hasn’t been a release date yet. And yes, I think it should be downloadable, which makes me sound silly.
Sound Shapes’ release date is August 7. It’s marked on my nerd calendar. :P
Lol, I’d use my own voice recordings instead of music