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Beatbuddy has been jamming on its own for far too long, and it's finally ready to share some sweet tunes with the world. Beatbuddy is coming to PC and Mac this summer, but first it's stopping off at PAX East, in booth 1048, to show some hands-on demos.

Beatbuddy is a musical platformer, featuring levels and enemies synced to the individual rhythms of entire songs, all of which are manipulated as you travel throughout the worlds. One level is put together by Grammy-nominated Journey composer Austin Wintory.

Play the demo on Steam, for free, if this news alone doesn't set your toes tapping.

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"When Threaks first reached out to me, I couldn't wrap my head around what the game would be like, but I couldn't help but be incredibly intrigued," said Wintory in the announcement of the collaboration. "Very quickly thereafter I came to realize what Beatbuddy could be and I had to be a part of it. It is a chance to explore a type of music I'd never touched before within a gameplay style I'd never worked with, and that combination is a dream."

To understand how Beatbuddy works, check out the free demo on Steam. The game is set to be released on PC and Mac this year.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>austin-wintorybeatbuddymacpcreverb-publishingthreaksFri, 08 Feb 2013 19:00:00 EST<![CDATA[The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Beatbuddy]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/03/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-beatbuddy/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/03/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-beatbuddy/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/03/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-beatbuddy/#comments Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, the boys from Threaks talk about the early indie success of music-mixing, action-adventure title Beatbuddy.
The Joystiq Indie Pitch Beatbuddy
What's your game called and what's it about?

Beatbuddy is an action-adventure that takes you into the world of a song. You take control of our main character Beatbuddy and navigate him through levels where everything you see, the enemies and challenges you encounter, are synched to the music and rhythm of the individual tracks that make up a particular song, which you can manipulate and basically re-mix through your interactions.

The game will feature licensed music that you will be able to move freely through, assembling and disassembling the track. We're planning to feature a great line-up of popular artists and songs and have developed a proprietary sound-filtering technology, which allows us to create levels matching each song with animations that are right on beat.

The Joystiq Indie Pitch BeatbuddyWhat was the IGF experience like - entering, waiting for finalist announcements, and getting an honorable mention?

Well, we here love to compete, so it was extremely cool especially to get the honorable mention. Getting the version ready to be entered was of course a bit of a crunch, as we tried to put as much into a short demo level as we could. Ahead of the announcement, we all got pretty nervous - I think none of us could sleep. Getting the honorable mention felt like a real milestone, especially considering the calibre of talent that was in the competition this year.

To be in the company of games like Fez, Tiny and Big and all the others, is a special thrill. We're looking to maybe do that extra step to a nomination with the game next year, when it's finished.

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JoystiqThe Joystiq Indie Pitch: Beatbuddy originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Beatbuddy bustin' moves on digital platforms, thanks to Reverb
Beatbuddy, a quirky rhythm-based action-adventure game from indie studio Threaks, already has a cozy game page on Steam - in fact, you can download a demo right now. Soon it will be available through more digital distribution channels. Reverb has announced it will publish Beatbuddy, though no exact platforms beyond Steam have been mentioned.

Developer Threaks, a small German outfit, has been working on Beatbuddy since 2009. The team said it plans on bringing Beatbuddy to "a wide variety of platforms," and when those exact platforms are announced, we'll be sure to relay the info.

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JoystiqBeatbuddy bustin' moves on digital platforms, thanks to Reverb originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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