Mojib Ribbon Game Promises Musical Spam

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Gamers.com report discussing the bizarre Japanese PlayStation 2 game, Mojib Ribbon, from the creators of Parappa The Rapper and this title's cult prequel, Vib Ribbon. The article says, "Like its predecessor, [Mojib Ribbon] ..is a simple rhythm game, but ..the game takes any text file and converts it into a Parappa-style rap, which players must then follow through stick inputs." Furthermore, the game uses the network adaptor and "..lets players send game data back and forth between each other. Players could e-mail especially inspiring raps to each other, or simply use their morning spam to generate a new game challenge." There's more info available via a preview at The GIA and pictures from this year's GDC.

Comments

What about program text files? :)

[gabec]

I wonder what kind of rap it would come up with if I were to pipe in my latest PERL/Python/Java/C++ program. ;) I'll bet it could do COBOL pretty well, as the creation of COBOL was to make easily readable code...

Will not work

[czion3]

This is a fairly cool feature for a video game. The problem is that it requires people to own extra hardware. A tool called the Dex Drive had a similar idea but it never caught on therefor the community never grew. For this game to work there has to be a universal site where people could share raps like rapsharer.com or something and learn from the mistakes of the Dex Drive.

Groovin with the dot matrix

[MichaelCrawford]

I used to type out text files that I would print with a dot matrix printer so I could listen to the rhythm as the pins struck the paper.

To bad I don't have any of them around anymore. That was a longer time ago than I would care to admit (see my sig).

Inkjets and laser printers just don't present the kinds of opportunities that inkjets and line printers did.

Spamradio

[CausticWindow]

Been there, done that.

Check out Spamradio.

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