Electro Plankton for DS

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it seems there is a new music game for NDS called "Electro Plankton"
there are 10 kinds of planktons to play the sound in different respectively methods
and I still have no idea what exactly it is and how to play
 
Hmm, seems it's a Nintendo title.
It will come out on April 7, for 3980 yen with headphones included.
Made by same person as Bikkuri Mouse and Simtunes.
 
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Mario is photosynthesing?

It's good to see that Nintendo isn't JUST relying on its established franchises and that all that outsourcing has allowed them to create new content.
 
Blackbird said:
google tells me it's Toshio Iwai.
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Toshio Iwai was the first person I thought of when I saw "music" and "plankton" -- he created an installation called Music Insects back in 1992. Sounds like an extension of that. Iwai's done a ton of touch-based installations, so the DS is a natural fit.

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These "music insects" as I call them, "react" to color dots on the screen.
When they pass over them such dots, they trigger musical scales,
sounds, and different light patterns. The user selects colors from
a palette with a track ball, and paints in their path, and
the insects perform the colors when they pass over them. The insects'
direction can be changed with certain colors, and colors can be painted to
achieve less random musical "performances."
This piece is a sort of tool for visual music performance.
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http://ns05.iamas.ac.jp/~iwai/artworks/music_insects.html

SimTunes was sort of a commercial application of the same concept.

Iwai collaborates a lot with fellow UgoUgoLhuga-ites UrumaDelvi (they did some of the demo SimTunes pieces, and all of the artwork for Bikkuri Mouse), so it wouldn't surprise me if they made a cameo in this as well.

If memory serves, he also had some part in Mother/Earthbound, but I'll have to do some googling to remember to what capacity, or if my memory actually serves at all.
 
A friend of mine played this. Says it's very interesting, though not really a game. This is the same guy who made Sound Fantasy for the Super Famicom, too -- the one that was finished and advertised by Nintendo, then abruptly cancelled. Very intriguing!
 
Judging by the cover art, I assume Sound Fantasy was just a SuFami port of SimTunes?

Err, never mind -- looks like SimTunes was what eventually became of Sound Fantasy after Nintendo dropped it.

boxart-snes-soundfantasy.gif
vs.
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None of Iwai's commercial work has been much of a game -- it's all just general amusement software, along the same lines of a Mario Paint.
 
SimTunes was pretty cool. It had this one premade song on it that was really awesome. Man, I need to get that song...
 
The game has a really neat style. Different/unique style is becoming quite a theme in the Japanese DS releases (Pac-Pix, Wario Ware, Feel the Magic, Meteos). Western DS releases just seem so uninspired in comparison (Metroid, Ridge Racer, Need For Speed, Tiger Woods, even Rayman). I wonder how Electro Plankton plays...
 
WOW is all I can say.

Guys check out the flash movie that plays when you select the left-most bubble. Loved the talking object and even the bizarro Mario theme song event.

HANENBOW SURE SEEMED EXCITED.

Rightmost bubble is for some interesting wallpapers.
 
Hit the bubble marked "TOP" in the upper left corner...you can drag the bubbles around and throw them into each other and stuff...kinda fun.

Also, check out the video of his art (4th bubble, 2nd choice under the first menu list...the one with the "?")
 
TekunoRobby said:
WOW is all I can say.

Guys check out the flash movie that plays when you select the left-most bubble. Loved the talking object and even the bizarro Mario theme song event.

HANENBOW SURE SEEMED EXCITED.

Rightmost bubble is for some interesting wallpapers.
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The third bubble also appears to have a bunch of videos of people playing what I assume to be different levels of the game, or at least different characters. GAF is awesome for bringing shit like this to attention; even though I'm not exactly sure what the hell is going on in most of the Flash videos, I want it.
 
Whoa....I'm not sure how some of those variations (stages? modes?) work, but they sure are interesting. This looks very cool. :)
 
The last "game" with the voices is using the user's voice through the microphone. Pretty cool stuff.

Also, check out the third link on the fourth bubble to see some of Iwai's installations. They look very interesting.
 
BuG said:
The third bubble also appears to have a bunch of videos of people playing what I assume to be different levels of the game, or at least different characters. GAF is awesome for bringing shit like this to attention; even though I'm not exactly sure what the hell is going on in most of the Flash videos, I want it.
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Yeah man, definitely check out that Hanenbow (second from left) woman I mentioned earlier. Her level of excitement and involvement with the game is awesome in of itself!
 
Finally we start seeing true "designed for DS" concepts coming to light. I can only imagine the evolution game design will start going through for DS once other developers are inspired by these ideas.
 
As a big supporter of art in games i will definitely be buying this.


Its not really a game they say, so i wouldnt get my hopes up. There are no scores or real point to the game.

Its art first "game" second i guess.
 
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