"I wanted to make a game where you have to focus on the music itself instead of simply relying on visuals."
Over in the Developer Insights section today, we have this Q&A with the developer of Melatonin, a rhythm game that curiously eschews the UI conventions of the genre in favor of teaching the player to find the beat through the environment. In his discussion with game director David Huynh, writer Joel Couture gleaned some key insight into how the team made this work within Melatonin's dreamy, chillwave world.
Read all about it over at Game Developer.
You know how most of my posts are sharing pieces from Gamedeveloper.com? Well, that's going to continue a bunch. But we also just rolled our official account, which my fantastic colleague Holly has started out for us with a Developer Insights piece on the making of Melatonin, a really, really pretty rhythm game.
Adding this game to my very, very long list of things I need to play, damnit