A City Sleeps - Harmonix Music Driven Shmup

Ukyo

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Hey guys,

Sorry, I have not been too active on the forums lately.

The last several months I've been working on a music driven shmup with a small dev team at Harmonix.

The game is called "A City Sleeps" and is out today on Steam for PC and Mac: http://store.steampowered.com/app/316180/


I'm the creative lead on the project; it's definitely a quirky little game with some legit difficulty. The guys at Giant Bomb called it "forgotten worlds meets rez" which is not too far off.

some bullet points for you:

MUSIC / GAMEPLAY SYNCHRONY - Level design and song authoring is done in parallel, ensuring a hand crafted and utterly unique audio-experience. Music drives player projectiles, enemy spawning, movement, and bullet patterns.

THE “IDOL” SYSTEM – Get tactical! Use Poe’s ghost familiars to possess inanimate objects of the dream world; these “Idols” will assist you against an endless enemy horde. The soundtrack builds as you leverage a range of both offensive and defensive abilities including AOE damage bursts, and healing bullets. Experiment with different ghost combinations to compliment your own personal play style.

GIVE UP THE GHOST!! – Reverie, Lucid, Nightmare; multiple difficulties for all skill levels. Need backup? Buff Poe with equip-able relics and unlockable ghosts types for a tactical advantage, or take a stab at the re-mixed “Cursed” variants for an even greater challenge! Compete against friends and the world in the global leaderboads!

Anyway, thanks for checking it out; let me know what you think. I hope to see some of you guys on the leaderboards.
 

BanishingFlatsAC

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Big things happening brother! Ill be giving this a DL tomorrow. Making the MassCrew proud!
 

Ukyo

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Thanks DZ, sorry I didn't follow up about the playtest session. Things got crazy.

Hope you dig it.
 

Chempop

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Looks awesome, will be checking this out for sure!
 

irvsmoot

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What up Perly! The game came together really well, it looks awesome. I hope you get mad downloads.
 

Ukyo

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Psyched you are gonna check it out grave, hope to see you on the leaderboards.
 
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