Harmonix Crowdfunds Its Next Game

Rockband developer Harmonix has stepped into the ring of crowdfunding for its next project, a reinvention of its PlayStation 2 cult classic Amplitude. 

What Harmonix describes at the "Dark Souls" of rhythm games, Amplitude helped define rhythm gaming for the PlayStation 2, and now eleven years later the studio is looking to update its game for the next generation of consoles. However, unlike previous games the developer has gone to players themselves to fund this reinvention, launching a Kickstarter with a goal of $775,000. The campaign is already a tenth of the way there, currently sitting at over $83,000. 

Backers can get a copy of this latest Amplitude (set to release June 2015) for $20, which nabs them a cross-buy code for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. At higher pledge levels, backers can grab early access, Kickstarter exclusive t-shirts, and the ability to have a say in what songs make it into the game. And for the low, low price of $10,000 Harmonix for fly you out to Boston, put you up a hotel, give you a tour of the studios and a helicopter tour of the city. 

Of course, for the more frugally-minded among us the $3,500 tier also gives backers the chance to have dinner with Harmonix's founders or for one lucky backer, Tim Schafer of Psychonauts and Broken Age fame.