Ring! Ring! Pick up! I've got a gig for you!
Pantaloon and Whetstone Games have just dropped the first demo for OFFBEAT; a game giving players a plethora of peculiar and unexpected instruments to begin their music production careers.
OFFBEAT is a music-tycoon meets audio production game that allows you to live out your wildest fantasies as a musician and producer - except your equipment and instruments are children's toys, garden ornaments and kitchen utensils.
Plugging these unconventional synthesisers into a sequencer, you’re able to compose and arrange tracks in an intuitive way, as you respond to briefs from various patrons who need music from your growing studio.
In announcing the game last month, Whetstone front-man Ed Sibley has released his latest single - composing, arranging and publishing the track all from within the game.
Listen to “Not Your Uncle's Ringtone”
"Well, we needed some music for the announcement trailer.” said Ed Sibley, Creative Director at Whetstone, “The game is literally about making music, so naturally I wanted to experiment with making the track using the game. So I fired it up, plugged the Tiger-01 into a delay pedal, and got to work. And now Pantaloon are releasing it as a single! Funny old world."
“‘Not Your Uncle’s Ringtone’ is the first track to be published under the new OFFBEAT Radio banner.” added Pantaloon’s Jamin Smith, “We’ve set up Pantaloon Records as a music label to publish the tracks OFFBEAT players might make in game. It’s all terribly exciting!”
OFFBEAT allows players to export their creations to. wav, encouraging players to share and publish their work as they see fit. As well as a tycoon game with deep progression and an evolving studio of synthesisers, OFFBEAT is a robust musical production tool in its own right, and an accessible sandbox for anybody that’s ever been interested in electronic music.
OFFBEAT will launch into early access later this year, with a demo planned in the meantime