"“I'm a big Devo fan,” Galvatron says. “There seems to be this weird, Devo-shaped hole in my heart, and when I listen to Devo, it just goes in and I feel complete. So I love that song and we started out and then we were like. 'Well, what if we, what if we built a game around a mixtape with individual tracks?' We laid out all the tracks that I love; it's just my greatest hits of all time.”"
"“We laid out all the tracks that I love; it's just my greatest hits of all time. I think there is a '60s track and then there's a couple of '70s, mostly '80s and early '90s, and laid them out.”"
"“Picking the songs was one thing, but as the team at Beethoven and Dinosaur learned through developing its previous game, the musical platformer Artful Escape , pacing and structuring the mixtape to compliment an overarching narrative would be the difference between a random assortment of songs and something with a deeper story to tell.”"
A musical adventure game begins with a specific song, “That’s Good” by Devo, as skateboarders Stacy Rockford and friends enter their final night together in Blue Moon Lagoon. The creative direction starts from a personal Devo connection and expands into a mixtape concept built from the director’s favorite tracks across the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. The studio Beethoven and Dinosaur, formed in 2017 after a punk band frontman career, develops a coming-of-age narrative game in collaboration with Annapurna Interactive. Song selection is only the first step; pacing and structuring the mixtape to support the overarching narrative determines whether the result feels like a random playlist or a deeper story.
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