Behind the Scenes with Harmonix and Rockband

The folks at XFire passed on a link to their recent interview with the people at Harmonix. Now working on hit of E3, Rock Band, the company's senior designer at Harmonix, Community Developer, and Associate Producer answered questions from the XFire audience about the upcoming title. "shrouded: Can you tell us about the challenges of designing the drumset? ... Answer: The hardest part was satisfying all of the stuff we wanted - we're a company of musicians, including a sizeable chunk of drummers. I think we spent at least half a year making sure that the pedal felt almost exactly like a real drum pedal, and not just some switch. We also had a bunch of non-negotiable things that we had to get in, like using real drumsticks. I could go on forever, but the basic summary is that from day 1 we wanted this to be as close to an electronic kit as possible, with as few compromises as possible."

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Re:Controllers xbox / ps3

[Osty]

Red Octane made the guitar. It was wired because they didn't want to pay the $20 per unit fee for MS's wireless technology.

It was wired because they couldn't pay Microsoft anything to use the wireless technology. Microsoft began licensing that only very recently (approximately around the same time that Guitar Hero III announced it would have a wireless guitar). I'm sure Red Octane would've loved to have made a wireless guitar for GH2, but it was simply impossible at the time.