I don’t think anyone can deny how much fun the ubiquitous Guitar Hero and Rock Band games are. They completely transform gaming into an interactive experience that throws away all the stigmas. You may remember I have been using rock band guitars as a dj controller and some may have even noticed the dj syle controller for rock band on you tube. Activision appears to be melding these concepts into the logical result, a dj hero game. Ripten, a gaming blog, has reported they even filed a patent for the concept many folks have been suggesting for months. Honestly though, who would actually play it and how in the world do they implement it? Crab scratch notation?
Hate to break it to everyone, but Beatmania IIDX has been around for more than a decade now. I’ve followed all the Bemani games since DDR and the “guitar hero craze” is simply an Americanized version of GuitarFreaks which Konami released in 99′ (JP). There’s dozens of Beatmania mixes for a bunch of consoles and it even made it to North America. I’ve played it several times, it’s not quite “DJing” but it’s fun.
My question is. How much beating will these controllers be able to take and when we will be able to interface them to standard midi-compatible app. That is IF they are worth it.
yes beatmania,pretty insane ,you ve got to check out dj itoh. he is a crazy beatmania performer. and you also have to check out the “crackin dj”.its an arcade game too
Actually folks, is there anyone out there who would like to help me out making the game? Me and my friend actually think we got a solution to really make a funny game out of it and make it feel like DJing. We’ve emailed one of the keyproducers from guitar hero and microsoft bout tips and directions where to start, no answer:P anyone?
hey.
I think that — crabscratch ‘notation’ — might be a very good way to put it. Ive been using Ableton Live to record midi notes that I am sending to traktor. I then use ableton to send the note sequences to traktor as groups while ableton is synced to traktor.
This is the same thing as is would be developed with DJ hero. But My aspirations for the process actually lie in the use of the NMX functions of traktor to create multitrackable command sequences that can be time stretched and manipulated easily live.
I remember watching a news clip about beatmania when I first started djing with my crew in 98. I was like oh yea … this confirms it. And thought back to the U of M experimental music classes from two years earlier. Big Ideas are only get big if they are developed.