{"id":38420,"date":"2013-04-01T23:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T21:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=38420"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:32:41","slug":"gdc-2013-muse-is-a-trippy-music-exploration-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gdc-2013-muse-is-a-trippy-music-exploration-game\/","title":{"rendered":"GDC 2013: ‘Muse’ is a trippy music exploration game [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"softonic<\/a>One of the best parts about the Game Developers Conference<\/a> is seeing prototype games that break the gaming paradigms that we’re used to. I already wrote about Framed<\/em><\/a>, a touch-based comic book puzzle game, which was one of the most innovative games I saw at the conference. Muse<\/em> falls under this category as well since it combines a thumping electronic soundtrack to an exploration driven game.<\/p>\n

Muse<\/em> is a very different type of game that doesn’t have a clear objective for the player. Hell, there’s not even a heads up display (HUD) to track points or your position on a map. All of this leads to a minimalist experience and that’s exactly what Muse’s<\/em> creator, Yossi Landesrocha, wants. Instead of taking players through a scripted journey, Muse<\/em> rewards exploration with an ever growing, layered soundtrack. Players control a glowing orb on the screen. Running into different shapes will generate different tones so you can create your own unique, layered soundtrack.<\/p>\n

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Collaboration will play a big part in Muse<\/em>, allowing players to work on a soundtrack together. Finished soundtracks can then be exported on social media or within the Muse<\/em> community itself. We didn’t get a chance to try the game with multiple players so this functionality remains to be seen. However, we did get a chance to play a very early build of Muse<\/em>, which turned out to be a very buggy experience. The game uses Intel applications on Android and iOS which will turn your phone into a controller. The accelerometer controls are a great idea but there was a ton of latency from what we saw at GDC which could be attributed to the massive amount of people using different wireless networks in the Moscone Center.<\/p>\n

Still, Muse<\/em> is an interesting game that has a lot of good ideas. Developer, Current Circus<\/a>, hopes to have the game out by mid-2013, which doesn’t leave the team much time to polish the experience. The game is only planned for a PC release at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the best parts about the Game Developers Conference is seeing prototype games that break the gaming paradigms that we’re used to. I already wrote about Framed, a touch-based comic book puzzle game, which was one of the most innovative games I saw at the conference. Muse falls under this category as well since … Continue reading “GDC 2013: ‘Muse’ is a trippy music exploration game [video]“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-38420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333181,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions\/333181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=38420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}