Brace Yourself Games’ Crypt of the Necrodancer (2015) merges rhythm game and roguelike mechanics in a dungeon crawler setting. Players coordinate their movements with the beat of Danny...
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NACVGM 2020 – Surrender to the Flow: Psychedelia in Videogame Music
Although there are numerous examples of psychedelia-influenced imagery in video games(i.e, Earthbound, Katamari Damacy, LSD: Dream Emulator), the same consideration is seldom given to music, I would...
NACVGM 2020 – A Theory of Music as Distraction in Video Games
In his thesis from 2006, Jenova Chen describes a design philosophy for video games that applies Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi‘s concept of "flow,” a state that promotes “optimal experience” for the...
NACVGM (North American Conference on Video Game Music) had to go digital for the 2020 year due to the current conditions. Here is the opening ceremonies welcoming those to the live stream. Source:...
Watch the thrilling conclusion between the final Omeganauts as they battle to see who can conquer the course in Trials Evolution. Competitors: Valkerian vs. Beyond Celery Source:...
She’s a one ton robot scientist with laser vision, a drill-arm, and a jetpack. She’s real. We call her Curiosity, and she just landed on Mars. See the NASA games that let you land, drive, and...