Fucked Up and Tegan & Sara to star in indie video game
Fucked Up, Tegan and Sara, METZ, Austra, Metric and many more will contribute music and avatars to a new video game named Loud on Planet X scheduled to be released within the next six months. The artists will be available as characters in an arcade game that combines tower defence and tap games.
Alex Jansen, creative producer at Pop Sandbox Productions, recently said: "The idea for LOUD on Planet X sprang out of obsessively playing old arcade classics on a MAME [Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator] with the audio down, listening to my own music or checking out what friends were listening to."
The game will also feature original scores challenging you to beat from Fucked Up's Mike Haliechuk and Jonah Falco, along with Brendan Canning and Justin Peroff of Broken Social Scene etc.
The game's Kickstarter page describes it as "an exciting new indie alternative to Rock Band or Guitar Hero with a splash of Plants vs. Zombies". They are aiming to raise $50,000 to complete the game, with rewards for pledgers ranging from digital copies of the game to a mega-package that includes signed band prints and your own avatar in the game.
Feel free to visit their kickstarter website where you can support them and also earn some goodies.
For more info about the upcoming game please visit the game's official website.