Revealing Jackbox Party Pack 10’s first-ever music game – Dodo Re Mi
We’ve reached our tenth year of creating Party Packs. That’s ten years of phones as controllers, high-brow, low-brow, and everything-in-between-brow humor, and memories made at parties around the world.
With this milestone in mind, we’re working hard to deliver fans with some classic Jackbox magic, including an exciting sequel, Tee K.O. 2 coming to The Jackbox Party Pack 10 for PlayStation users this fall.
We’ve also made it a priority to push ourselves and delight fans with new ideas and ways to play. This mindset has been critical in creating the fifth and final title coming to The Jackbox Party Pack 10. Introducing…
Dodo Re Mi is the first ever musical game published by Jackbox Games. Players will use their phones as instruments to play songs together as birdy bandmates feeding a hungry musical plant, therefore avoiding being eaten by said plant.
Dodo Re Micontains both original songs and familiar music played in unexpected genres. Each player will select an instrument to play-controlled through their phone-and be able to hear their bandmates’ instruments as they collaborate in real-time.
Senior Software Engineer Chase McClure dreamed up the pitch for Dodo Re Mi. Chase remarks, “this idea of literally turning your phone into an instrument got into my head and wouldn’t leave.”
But Jackbox has never made a music game before, and Chase was hyper aware of challenges of making this game. “It’s tough to overstate just how new this idea and tech is for our studio and the initial prototypes were… rough,” he says, “but just enough of the idea was there to prove, if we can pull it off, it could be a really special game.”
The studio agreed that this game was special. Once Chase’s pitch was greenlit for Party Pack 10, the
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