Shut Up And Play This Game: “Record Tripping”

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“Shut Up And Play This Game” is a recurring feature here at Warp Skip! The deal: you read the blog post, then you play the game that we link you to. No questions asked. See the first “Shut Up” post for a full description, or view all of the “Shut Up and Play This Game” games!

If you asked me how you could create a video game that was relevant to my interests, I’d say “aww shucks, I already play video games! Just keep on making great games, folks!” But if you kept insisting, and forced me to make a list of things I like that should be in a video game, I think it’d look something like this:

  1. The music of Gorillaz and Spoon
  2. Rhythm and puzzle gameplay elements
  3. References to Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” books (I can’t help it; it’s a programmer thing)
  4. Pretending to know things about turntablism
  5. Bill Murray

“Record Tripping”, a game by the Bell Brothers, combines the first four of these elements (and until all five are incorporated in something, a boy can dream) into a short, fun Flash game that makes use of the mouse wheel in a way I’ve never seen before. It starts off very easy, but by the end its challenges made me think a bit about how to complete them. It’s nice that while you’re graded on how well you do each stage, failing to complete the challenge doesn’t block you from seeing the rest of the stages. The whole time you’re working over loops made out of music by artists like Gorillaz, Spoon, and Death Cab For Cutie. Forget about the disappointment that was DJ Hero and play this game for a few minutes— it’s free, and you might as well get some precious Flash gaming in now before HTML5 kills it forever.

SHUT UP AND PLAY “RECORD TRIPPING”

—Casey

This game is sweet! pretty sure my plus 5 minute effort is pretty lame though