Accordion Hero Postmortem

The same folks who brought us Age of Ornithology have returned to Gamasutra with a postmortem on their smash hit Accordion Hero. From the article: "Although most of us had played the accordion, we had never designed a game controller before! I quickly threw together a prototype made of dryer ducting, two cheese graters, tape, buttons, and a few Werther's Originals. It took a great deal of imaginary accordion playing to determine where the buttons should ultimately go, and the cheese graters scratched Crispin's hands up pretty horribly. But we told him that one must suffer to become a game tester, and one must be a game tester before one can be anything in this industry (of course we did not tell him that the rest of us were never game testers. Ah, it is to laugh)."

Comments

Real?

[gabebear]

Darn, it took me forever to realize this wasn't real and I couldn't order it...

Made by Schadenfreude Interactive

[panaceaa]

Is this game a joke?? Oh, it's made by Schadenfreude Interactive. They must have just made it so they can laugh at their customers.

Re:Would you actually play this?

[Ponzicar]

I would spend so much time on this game that I'd make an obsessive compulsive WoW player look like a blind Amish grandmother.

Re:I think this would make a great game!

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Why not? Remember Donkey Konga? Definitly not a game you'd call a clone. Not to mention the special controller is a very nice way to prevent copying.

Oh damn! Ouch.

[geminidomino]

Laughed my ass off at this part.

Dead Men Rising is an exciting zombie U-boat simulator that has caused a great deal of controversy here in Germany in regarding to the violence and sensitive subject matter. In America, this should pass unnoticed as you have a higher tolerance for violence and gore in computer games. Also you do not teach world history in your public schools as the little children are too busy stabbing one another and hitting each other in the head with their Desperate Housewives lunchboxes.

Like Voltron. . .

[AcidLacedPenguiN]

Man, it would be sweet if someone made a game that uses all of the music instrument controllers in tandem. . . get a guy wailing on the guitar hero, another one banging out the rythm with the donkey kongas, get some of that samba di amigo for style. . . top it all off with a microphone and a keg of beer and a video camera and you've got enough blackmail material for an early retirement!