Mixtape, a new video game out today, tells a classic teen-movie coming-of-age story, following three kids who are trying to make it to a mythic party on their last day of school, avoiding getting caught along the way. It's the latest game from Beethoven & Dinosaur, the Melbourne studio previously responsible for the music-themed platform game The Artful Escape. And as the title implies, music is pretty central to Mixtape, too.
According to The New York Times, Mixtape is a small, focused, evocative game that you can play in just three hours. The game seems to take place in the '90s, and lead character Stacey Rockford has dreams of becoming a music supervisor in New York. (Join the club! I would dearly love to become one of the people who picks music for movies and TV shows, even though I have been assured that the job is a lot more complicated than that.) From what I can tell, Mixtape doesn't get into the music business, but the music supervising on this game has to be really good.
The Mixtape soundtrack is one of the game's main selling points, and it includes tracks from classic alternative rock types like Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, the Cure, Devo, Siouxsie And the Banshees, Iggy Pop, Roxy Music, Portishead, Lush, and Silverchair, along with deeper cuts from artists like Alice Coltrane, the Chi-Lites and B. J. Thomas. It looks cool! Check out a trailer below.
