Every so often a game concept comes along that grabs our attention. A new music game called Circuits has done just that. Developed by the studio Digital Tentacle [1], Circuits is a puzzle game that asks you to reconstruct a piece of music. In the gameplay video shown below, composer David Garcia walks the viewer through an early level of the game. Different nodes of the circuits represent patterns, rhythms, and instrument melodies that make up the piece of music. Essentially, each node is a piece of the puzzle. The task of the player is to assemble each node in the correct spot on the circuit board to reproduce the full and finished piece. You not only have to worry about the order of the music’s individual elements, you must also make sure you repeat the nodes the correct number of times.
From the looks of it, a lot of the game will rely on the player’s listening abilities, in addition to their puzzle solving skills. The game was recently Greenlit by members of the Steam [2] community and will hopefully make progress to an eventual release on the platform. The game was also released recently on the iPad [3]. It’s definitely an interesting game concept. Hopefully it can find an audience in the puzzle and music game crowd.
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#1 Comment By Jacob On February 28, 2014 @ 2:06 am
I didn’t really care for his work on Deadlight. But the upside is that’s been the only exposure I’ve had to his music so certainly there’s better stuff lurking about (better in the sense that I’d enjoy it more than I did the Deadlight score).
With few exceptions I tend to buy up most music-based PC games (certainly no shortage of them these days) and this one looks a considerable bit more interesting than Chime ended up being (a game that its developers ultimately turned out to be more console-minded than PC, sadly).
I might have otherwise missed this though, since there’s a lot of stuff shuffling across Greenlight that I just don’t give a toot about (not a great deal of quality curating and a lot of “we can push this through, just cram for votes” mentality going on). I’ll likely be in for a purchase once it can actually be purchased for the PC.