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Sound Shapes (2012)

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This is a stream wherein I replayed the entirety of 2012's Sound Shapes, a 2D platformer where by collecting the requisite collectable you make songs composed by the likes of Beck, deadmou3, I Am Robot And Proud, Jim Guthrie and the developers themselves. Also, art from Sword and Sworcery guys and others. Some all stars, some I'm not sure if anyone ever heard of, cool across the board.

I have a big soft for this game for a lot of reasons, perhaps the biggest being that it was the first game I ever made levels in that I'm still proud of to this day. This was the first taste I ever got of that which, considering I went on to do a lot of Mario Maker and Mario Making, turned out to be a pretty big step. It's also a whole vibe, it also is very neat how it builds up music throughout a level through gameplay, it's also got a good number of mechanics I would love to have in SMM2.

As an obscure game published by Sony it is exactly the sort of deep cut reference Astro Bot is full of and I for one hope to see a little robot based on Sound Shapes as part of a future update. We can only hope!

00:00 - Starting Soon
00:13 - Introduction
08:36 - The Tutorial
15:10 - Hello, World by I Am Robot and Proud
28:25 - Superbrother's Corporeal with Jim Guthrie
49:31 - Beyonder by I Am Robot and Proud
01:14:48 - PixelJam & deadmou5 D-Cade
01:41:48 - Beck Cities
02:02:25 - Do You Wheelie Want To Hurt Me
02:16:50 - Three Levels I Made Back When

Originally streamed on January 14th, 2025 on Twitch and YouTube.

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