Daily Skiff

August 28th, 2008

“Guitar Hero” No Longer Just for Heathens

As reported on the Fox News Web site, video game developers Digital Praise are making a game similar to the juggernaut franchise “Guitar Hero” for the Christian music crowd.

Screenshots show the player will have to hit the notes on a guitar at the correct time. Sounds familiar right? Is it too familiar? “Guitar Hero” wasn’t the first rhythm game with guitars, but is certainly the most popular. So popular that many clones are starting to pop up.

Other games have capitalized on the success of the “Guitar Hero” series as it soars past $1 billion in retail sales in North America. Frets on Fire is an open-source computer game with the familiar look and feel and added features like creating song charts and where each note is placed. Then there’s Guitar Zero. It’s so similar to the original it seems that the only thing they changed was the “H” in hero. Now we can all be guitar zeros. And then there’s Accordion Hero. Enough said.
Tom Bean, president and CEO of Digital Praise told Fox News, “We’ve attempted to be careful and respect other people’s products and create games of a similar genre but solely created with our programs and programmers.”

A response from “Guitar Hero” developer Activision is forthcoming. Digital Praise has also made the “DancePraise” series, a “Dance Dance Revolution” type rhythm game where you won’t go to hell for dancing.

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