Accordion Hero Postmortem 30
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)."
Real? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Real? (Score:2)
Same here. I actually did a froogle search [google.com] for it before realizing it wasn't real.
Would you actually play this? (Score:1)
Re:Would you actually play this? (Score:3, Funny)
Made by Schadenfreude Interactive (Score:4, Funny)
Schadenfreude Logo (Score:1)
And the tag line! "For those about to polka, we salute you!"
Re:They're upfront about it too. (Score:2)
Re:I think this would make a great game! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I think this would make a great game! (Score:1)
Oh damn! Ouch. (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Oh damn! Ouch. (Score:2)
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Polka Polka Revolution (Score:1)
All what I'm saying is that it's a tragedy this isn't real.
Drat! (Score:2)
Next: Mime Blasters!
Laugh til you Polka? (Score:1)
http://www.weirdal.com/ [weirdal.com]Weird Al, is that you?
Who are these guys? (Score:2)
Re:Who are these guys? (Score:1)
Like Voltron. . . (Score:2, Funny)
I'm partial to their Cthulhu Karts game (Score:1)