jungle rumblea deep dive on the game design of jungle rumble freedom happiness and bananas i love rhythm games . i have always wanted to make one . i love slapping on bongos in donkey konga tapping the ds screen in rhythm heaven and playing the plastic in guitar hero . but the follow the script thing irks me . they grade along a single axis of accuracy . as a designer i like games where the player makes meaningful decisions . i like games where the player ponders tradeoffs between something quick yet weak and something slow yet strong . why does playing with rhythm have to be one dimensional rhythm control my design goal was a way to control a game with rhythm . parroting the prewritten has been done with great style . i wanted the player to dum ditty dum to make something happen and zum zum zum to make something else happen . i wanted every move to add a layer of craziness to the world in sync with the beat . i just had no idea what that meant . what i really wanted was an interactive music video with the player fighting like michael jackson in smooth criminal through waves of grooving enemies . keep reading junglerumble 1 year ago permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle pop upview separately jungle rumble has updated on the app store what what joy of joys it s on the front page of the app store right now . https itunes.apple.com us app jungle rumble freedom happiness id816012589 mt 8 & uo 4 so what s new new levels . new levels that walk players through the more advanced mechanics . skip to any played level when questing for gold medals . no need to start at the beginning of a stage . super hi res . it now looks gorgeous and crisp on massive retina displays from the iphone 6 to the ipad air 2 . revamped tutorial . what you haven t played yet this one s for you . junglerumble 1 year ago permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle pop upview separately they ve been writing about us they ve been saying it s more fun than a barrel full of monkeys gaming age 9 10gaming trend 80 100 it does something few other games do unique charm and addictive blend of rhythm and puzzle technology tell 4 5 why aren t you playing jungle rumble freedom happiness and bananas yet junglerumble 1 year ago permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle pop upview separately jungle rumble is now live on playstation vita this is awesome http blog.us.playstation.com 2015 02 10 jungle rumble freedom happiness and bananas out today on ps vita junglerumble 1 year ago 1 permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle we re launching tomorrow . here s the microtrailer for playstation vita junglerumble 1 year ago permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle pop upview separately jungle rumble is launching on playstation vita in the americas junglerumble 1 year ago 1 permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle pop upview separately an early mock up of jungle rumble . you could only tell the goodies from the baddies by the color of their faces . super confusing we made the baddies look different right off the bat . junglerumble 1 year ago 1 permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle pop upview separately getting the demo finished up for the playstation experience . this weekend http www.playstation.com en us campaigns 2014 playstation experience 1 year ago 1 permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle pop upview separately jungle rumble will be playable at the playstation experience in las vegas for those of us in frigid boston a desert weekend surrounded by video games is just what the doctor ordered . junglerumble 1 year ago permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle pop upview separately behind the bongos donkey konga donkey konga is a rhythm game where you play bongo drums with up to four people . bongo drums . this delighted my spastic add inner child and my social outer party gamer . on screen music notation scrolls by . the notation is pretty simple left right both or clap . clap you sit down with these bongos and bap away . or sit down with a friend and bap away . or sit down with four people and make sweet cacophony . the songs were silly . rock lobster yeah . hungarian dance . classical yeah . para los rumberos wow . those who have heard me talk about the puerto rican plena and jungle rumble know that this is cool to me . it s simple . it s fun . it s a blast with a crowd . it s also very much a traditional follow the script rhythm game . hit the left bongo on time you re good . forget to hit it you re not good . you re graded on timing . comparisons to guitar hero and the plastic instrument genre are inevitable . however the simplicity of a drum translates into a simple thing you bang on much better than a six string guitar simplifies into a plastic controller . donkey konga was not really revolutionary considering drum mania and taiko drum masters developed by the same team had been around for quite a bit . but not being revolutionary doesn t mean it wasn t a blast . there s one other huge problem here . it s the same problem jungle rumble suffers from on androids audio latency . when you hit the drum there s a noticable delay before the sound plays . it s really too bad but not possible to get around without specialized hardware . hmm disco pixel specialized hardware rhythmbreakdown 2 years ago 1 permalink share short url twitterfacebookpinterestgoogle page 1 of 6 newer older about crazy video games . indie spirit . holy cow . check out jungle rumble freedom happiness and bananas pages about disco pixel disco pixel press jungle rumble indie game news free games sign up and we ll share the love . be rad hotline webring get social trevorstricker on twitter facebook profile discopixelgames on youtube google tweets by dum ditty dum rss random archive ask me anything mobile 2015 disco pixel . effector theme by pixel union