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:Price

[danpsmith]

I cringe when I think about the amount of money people will waste to just pretend to be a musician or pretend to play an instrument. You can play air guitar for free folks, and if you want to actually learn guitar take some time out of your (obviously busy guitar/band pretending) life and buy a real instrument. You can pick up a used six string for 100 and change and actually play real music, instead of being able to pretend the best with some plastic guitar.