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Friday, January 29, 2010

Games Feeling Gravity's Pull

Posted by The Stranger Testing Department on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:14 AM

Dejobaan Games are the clowns behind last year's surprisingly fun, awesomely named AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, which added jumping off really tall buildings to the list of bad things video games have inspired us to try. Aaaaa! is a rather cheap $9.95 now, but in even better news, Dejobaan announced their next Big Thing: a music-based falling game (or falling-based music game?) tentatively titled Musorqua. The rough promo video makes it look like good, trippy fun:

There's no release date yet, and it looks like they've got plenty of work left to do still—but they were able to squeeze a fat wad of complexity into a game about jumping off buildings, so this could be a gem.

The Stranger Testing Department is Rob Lightner and Paul Hughes.

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It's Rez all over again.

Posted by Griffin on January 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM

People were jumping from tall buildings way before video games.

Just ask any New Yorker about the Great Depression and the crash that preceded it.

I blame the NY Times crossword puzzle.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on January 29, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Thanks for the kind words about Aaaaa!. I hope we do awesome and inventive things with our next title as well. We're about to enter the Gamma IV with a quick, cropped-down one-button version of the game for fun. :)

Posted by Ichiro Lambe on January 31, 2010 at 9:54 PM