Thriller Redux Pt.2 is about appropriation and the death of the music video. Thriller, the twelve and a half minute music video, was in my opinion Peek Music Video. In this piece, a group of Goofy characters performs the Thriller Dance while destroying a large model of a TV. This is my second experiment with creating a Music Video Game.
Why Goofy? The character Goofy is Disney’s appropriation of black culture. Michael Jackson and Thriller is the world’s appropriation of black culture.
This work also explores some technical items I want to achieve in my final project. Parts of the environment were created using a Voxel-ish method and are all elements affected by physics. The environment is fully explorable and can be moved by the game actors and navigated on by the players.
My final research will differ from my current and previous works. The project will explore an endless voxel environment that the player can explore, fall onto, run on, and manipulate in real-time without consequences. My final project is to create a Music Video Game targeting Game Consoles and Mobile Devices.
FINAL PITCH DECK (I can’t get the iFrame of the deck to stay in the post)
Reference Games: Canabalt by Adam Saltsman, Velocibox by Shawn Beck, and FLOW by thatgamecompany.