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GDC 08: Harmonix reveals that Phase was originally a PSP game

Posted Feb 22, 2008 at 01:59PM by Enrico S. Listed in: News, Games Tags: GDC, prototype, Harmonix, Chris Foster
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GDC 2008 - Image 1 


Late last year, we covered a quirky game from Harmonix called Phase. This rhythm game for the iPod has players timing their spins and button presses to music from their own personal collection. Interestingly enough, in a panel at the GDC 2008,  the developers of the game disclosed that this game was originally created for the PSP.

Harmonix's senior designer Chris Foster revealed this little fact during his presentation. The first prototype shared some traits with the iPod release of the game including the ability for users to use their own music in the game. However, unlike the three button configuration used in the iPod, only the L and R buttons were used as input.

While its pretty obvious that the game didn't make it to the PlayStation Portable, we can't help but wonder if Harmonix still plans on releasing an updated version on the said handheld. We'll just have to wait and see, won't we? In the meantime, you'll just have to make do with some pictures from the presentation.

GDC 2008 - Image 1 GDC 2008 - Image 2

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   by instantstupor - 2008-02-22
 » I'm thinking...
that it won't, in fact, come to the PSP. My guess is that the downloadble title 'Beats' probably swayed them from putting it on the PSP. I would also guess that the "play your own music as a game" niche will be filled by the previously mentioned (and not to mention excellent) 'Beats'. But who knows, Harmonix is synonymous with rhythm/music games, so if it were to make its way to the PSP it could still probably fair pretty well (but I still guess it won't happen).



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