![]() She’s an AR graffiti writer whose drones have been bit-spraying techno-color all over the augmented space in the city. Waking up one day he finds out his girlfriend Jay disappeared overnight and broke his custom Augmented Virtual Reality glasses, leaving only a mysterious message on the bathroom mirror of the apartment. The protagonist, Nathan, is an outsider that refuses to comply with this new system, so he is making a living off the grid as a smuggler of pirate gadgets and cracked software. In the world of VirtuaVerse, society is now migrating to a permanently augmented world managed by a global neural network. Together, they are developing a game set in a future not so far away where a single AI prevailed and governments have become obsolete. While Elder0010 takes care of the code and text, Victor (aka Master Boot Record) writes the story and Valenberg takes care of the graphics and animation. With such a small team of 3 people, Theta Division has been proving to be a very skilled and talented game developing company. ![]() “Because of our overall appreciation for media and our desire to continually push the boundaries of the label, getting into games seemed like the next, great adventure.” Futuristic nostalgia In fact, as Blood Music team stresses, this connection between their music and videogame has started back ago when Perturbator and Dad Terminus had their music licensed as soundtrack for the games Hotline Miami and NeuroVoider. “As a group, the team has a respect and love for gaming and what it does, imaginative exploration and the creation of alternate worlds.” K is the more modern game aficionado and has owned basically everything from SNES onward and plays a lot of both current blockbuster and indie games”, they tell. “We were big on old PC games, particularly the Sierra stuff, and had an affinity for NES and Sega Mega Drive. Now, he comes back to join Blood Music in this new challenge as a publisher of videogames, which turns to be a way to conciliate an old passion held by the team. The aesthetics were developed after Valenberg’s signature style, the latest master of pixel art who already worked previously with other Blood Music artists. Originally known as a record label housing retrowave and metal artists such as Perturbator and GosT, Blood Music is now delving into the realm of videogames with their new release, VirtuaVerse, a pixelated cyberpunk adventure game developed by Theta Division.Īll tinted with the classic Miami Vice pink and blue tones, VirtuaVerse brings a futuristic story written by the chiptune/cyber-metal artist Master Boot Record, who also took care of the brilliant soundtrack encompassing the narrative and mechanics a game that will probably attract fans of LucasArts and Sierra games, such as Monkey Island and King’s Quest.
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