Johann Sebastian Joust

[Erkki]

We have some office parties coming up and I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to get ones hands on Johann Sebastian Joust somehow*. Or is it currently only for indie developers to tease people with?

* assuming we already had the number of controllers required

[Orv]

I don't actually know for sure, but I imagine if you shot the devs an email saying "Hey, can we beta test your game at an office party?" they'd be receptive. Or not! Who knows.

[Nachimir]

Maybe the Venus Patrol version will be sent out in time?

[Forbin]

I feel like the Move controllers would be the hard thing to find.\

edit:

http://www.copenhagengamecollective.org/unimove/

[brkl]

What the heck is Johann Sebastian Joust? I suppose I could google.

God I love Joust. The poorness of the PS3 port I bought is probably why I stopped using my PS3 for gaming.

[Orv]

Hit up this GiantBomb video at 12 minutes as they play a few rounds of it. It looks really cool.

[Nachimir]

Here it is on vimeo, and here's the main developer on Twitter.

Until they have a version they're happy to release, having a beta seems to depend on knowing him.

[Denial]

I played it at the Wild Rumpus - it is _awesome_. Although I didn't follow the musical cues at first, and got totally owned. And it turns out Alice from Shacknews was born to play Johann Sebastian Joust.

But yes! If you get a chance to play it, definitely go for it, and likewise B.U.T.T.O.N, which was also made by the Copenhagen Games Collective.

[Ben X]

  Denial said:

I played it at the Wild Rumpus - it is _awesome_. And it turns out Alice from Shacknews was born to play Johann Sebastian Joust.

Sadly, no evidence of this on their Flickr album.

[F4T C4T]

I just received an email informing me I have a copy of this courtesy of Venus Patrol but unfortunately I don't own any Move controllers! I'm going to have to borrow some in the near future and give it a go.

[toblix]

Yeah, I got that too and I was all like omg I don't have move controllers and just closed the email. Also, if I did have move controllers, I would probably need Other People™ to play with, which is another thing I don't have.

[DanJW]

We played this at Spaff's birthday celebration last night. Seven-way! It was stupid fun. I was pretty good at first, but then my brother started owning everyone. Stupid brother.