[game_preservation] Music Game Expert - Need a consultant (the lineage of Guitar Hero)

[Greg Boyd]

I have to hire various consultants all the time for client projects.
Unfortunately, I cannot really say more.  Where this person works is not
really an issue for me right now.  We can work out the conflicts later.

Greg

On 7/23/08, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:

>

> I'm no specalist, but recently one of the blogs I read posted on

> predecessors, and mind you, he only skimmed the top. I guess you'll know all

> this, but for anyone else who's interest is piqued might want to give it a

> read.

>

> http://www.unfetteredblather.com/guitar-zero/

>

> The USA has had a lot more releases in the peripherals market however, and

> likely there are a ton I've never even seen predating Guitar Hero, nevermind

> the Japanese arcades and home market, who always had some wacky stuff and

> had a huge interest in Karaoke besides - if it is just those games, they go

> way back.

>

> Another sideline was I remember the Preservation SIG round table at GDC had

> someone specially bring up the fact they have a lot of Guitar Hero

> prototypes around, which will probably get lost or broken if they can't be

> preserved (I really need to get the museum  and archives contacts done I

> guess!).

>

> Any specific reason you need an expert? (or I guess, it might be private :)

> ) You'll be, to be honest, unlikely to find one who isn't actually employed

> in a company who currently produces such games, but someone here might know

> enough about general music games or perhaps rhythm games in general. Sorry I

> can't be of more help!

>

> Andrew

>

> Greg Boyd wrote:

>

> I am actually looking for a consultant with knowledge about music games,

> especially the predecessors of Guitar Hero.  As a secondary quality, if

> the person is pretty sophisticated about IP, that would be great.  Ideally,

> this would be a senior technical person in the game industry or perhaps

> someone on the business side.

>

>

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