Roto Color Runners

Entrant 2016


CREATOR
Blue Volcano Studio

Description

"A colourfully cosmic trip through space and sound".

The game is a genre mash of endless runner, beat matching music based around the science of colour theory and sound analysis, complimented by its unique rotoscoped aesthetics.

Use light beams to mix colours according to the real world application of colour mixing with lights to produce the colours of the spectrum. These mixed colours then correlate to specific sound beats based on the sounds real life frequencies. So bass sounds which have a low sound frequency relate to reds and yellows as they have a low frequency on the light spectrum. Conversely, the high frequency sounds match the high frequency colours of blue and violet. This is done to evoke a sense of Chromesthesia (associating sounds to colours) on the player. After each bar of the song, you 'deposit' the colours you have collected into a light prism which disperses them to the far reaches of the galaxy, adds another layer of sounds to the audio (you build the song as you play) and returns you to white, ready to start again with increased speed.

A much simpler explanation:

Mix colours> match to the sounds > make a rainbow > build the song > achieve light speed!
The visuals have all been rotoscoped. That is, live footage of a person running in 60fps has been hand traced every frame. This creates some of the smoothest sprite based animation you can find.


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