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...
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