This week we've got more playtests going on... we're hoping to bring over our good game-developer neighbors Demiurge Studios to play a world tour later this week. Demiurge helped us out on Karaoke Revolution Party, as well as having done fixes and systems on quite a few other games. Nice guys too.
We're also sharpening up the vocal gameplay, trying to make it both competitively hard on the high end and forgiving enough on the low end. Personally, this Thursday morning I'm giving a talk at MIT's gambit on the joys of playtesting. Gambit is an MIT game education group funded by, of all people, Singapore. Yeah, I don't know either.
This past week we had John Harwood (a leaderboard kingpin) in for a visit. He was a very nice guy and very down to earth. We managed to corner him and force him to show off his guitar playing skills, but he seemed a lot more curious about drumming. We got some good information from him, and hopefully will be able to use that to tune the high-end of the game. We'll get music to the masses yet.
And to everyone who has been helping us playtest and iterate and revise and tune... and even those of you just kicking around strange ideas on the forums... Thank you. I think you'll all see the sum of everyone's efforts when we launch.
