Saturday, March 26, 2005
Experimental Gameplay
My older son and I have been enjoying games from Experimental Gameplay. It's a project undertaken by a group of students at Carnegie Mellon University to create 50 to 100 games in one semester. Some of the games are a lot of fun. We both really liked Tower of Goo, Cytoplasm and Fireflies. My son also enjoyed the oddball humor in Gravity Head and Blow.
An interesting connection occurred while playing Tower of Goo: I really enjoyed the music that plays during the game. It sounds familiar but I couldn't remember where I might have heard it. The name of an MP3 file in the game's resources is loop_AstorPiazzola_Libertango.mp3. That made it easy to find more details. The piece is called Libertango and was written by Astor Piazzolla. According to IMDB, Piazzolla's music has been used in dozens of films. Libertango has been used at least twice, including Roman Polanski's Frantic.
An interesting connection occurred while playing Tower of Goo: I really enjoyed the music that plays during the game. It sounds familiar but I couldn't remember where I might have heard it. The name of an MP3 file in the game's resources is loop_AstorPiazzola_Libertango.mp3. That made it easy to find more details. The piece is called Libertango and was written by Astor Piazzolla. According to IMDB, Piazzolla's music has been used in dozens of films. Libertango has been used at least twice, including Roman Polanski's Frantic.
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