Soundodger+ Review: A much different—much better—way to play your music

October 16, 2013

I’ve never understood dance. I don’t just mean I’m bad at dancing—though that is also true. I mean I don’t get it. Where other people see expression, grace, artistry, I see arms, legs, people jumping into the air and kicking. I see the various parts that make up “dance,” I just fail to grasp the larger intent. Occasionally I can snag some small piece of understanding. I have been known, in the wee hours of the night when Bob Seger's Night Moves comes on the bar jukebox, to sway back and forth in some ritualized, primitive motion. I’m also no stranger to mosh pits, having grown up in New Jersey during its fertile pop-punk and hardcore years. But on the whole, dance is lost on me. Or was. Until I played Soundodger+. What’s the frequency, Kenneth? Soundodger+ is built on a simple premise: you play as a circle, trapped inside an arena. Other objects shoot from the arena’s walls—triangles, cubes, larger circles. Colliding with these objects is bad. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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