As if they weren’t busy enough, Harmonix Music Systems recently signed a publishing deal with Tilting Point to bring multiple new games to mobile devices. Tilting Point, to jog your memory, is a mobile publishing and marketing team known for projecting its game trailers onto the walls of Gothic Revival mansions.
The new agreement will have Harmonix developing new mobile games while Tilting Point handles the nitty-gritty marketing, research, and data analysis. Tilting Point’s recent projects include The Sleeping Prince (Free), Toy Rush (Free), and Leo’s Fortune ($4.99), which we especially liked.
In fact, Harmonix has actually already started development on the first Tilting Point-produced game, described as a “music-influenced" project for mobile devices. (Well, duh: music games are kind of Harmonix’ thing.) As of April, Harmonix had at least a dozen mobile prototype in the works.
“We’ve known the guys at Tilting Point for years through EA Partners, and recently we began exploring ideas for games we’d like to work on together,” Alex Rigopulos, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Harmonix said in a press release. “Tilting Point has been instrumental in helping us to hone those ideas and to identify the ones that fit best with the mobile market."
This isn’t Harmonix’ first foray in mobile game development, however. In years past they developed a few Rock Band-branded games for the Nintendo DS, Android, and iOS and more recently released VidRhythm and Record Run for iOS. VidRhythm lets you make straight bangers out of French Bulldog barks, and Record Run uses your phone’s music library as a soundtrack.
In non-mobile news, Harmonix now has about a billion projects in the works. The company has two games launching in October — the big-budget Fantasia: Music Evolved for Xbox One and A City Sleeps, a music-driven shoot-em-up for Steam — and continues to support Dance Central Spotlight, released earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Harmonix also recently announced a virtual reality project for the Samsung Gear VR and a first-person shooter called Chroma. Last but not least, the Kickstarter-funded Amplitude remake is due next year.
Whew.
