Boogie Loops
Boogie Loops is a cute music maker for Playdate that lets players create block rockin' beats to send a roster of adorable critters into delirium.
The selling point here is crystal clear: channel your inner maestro to make teeny pixel art companions -- including a sentient pizza slice, bunny, and panda -- twerk and jive in time to your homemade tunes.
Developed by May-Li Khoe and Andy Matuschak, with some special musical contributions from Andres Velasquez, Boogie Loops takes inspiration from retro-titles like Mario Paint and modern-day apps like Vine in the hopes of inspiring users to create compositions that could either be described as modern day classics or ludicrously silly -- perhaps even both.
Last year, way ahead of Boogie Loops' long-awaited Season One debut, we had the chance to sit down with May-Li Khoe to learn how the interdisciplinary artist and Apple alumnus infused the title's pulsating pixel art with pure, unadulterated funk.
Game Developer: Without spoilers, could you explain what Boogie Loops is and what attracted you to Playdate?
May-Li Khoe: Imagine if a panda, a bunny, a cactus, and a pizza wandered out into the woods, looking for new friends to dance with. They've run there to get away from the limited expectations given to little pandas, bunnies, cactuses, and pizzas, who nobody thinks can dance. They're overjoyed to find each other, set up their own little stage, and finally share some moves, maybe even make a sequence that can go viral and spread their fuzzy, spikey, cheesy joy out, far beyond the woods and into the broader world.
But there's a problem. They don't have music to dance to, and they have no way to be seen by the world yet.
That's where you come in.
It's up to you to create your own
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