To see how Beethoven & Dinosaur pulled off these impressive feats, we caught up with Galvatron. Despite coming from a relatively small studio, the game managed to garner nominations for Best Art Direction, Best Music, and Best Debut Indie from The Game Awards. It features a psychedelic 2.5D art style, and Forbes called it “ the most beautiful indie game Of 2021.” This is all the more impressive when you consider the core development team consisted of fewer than 10 developers. The Artful Escape represents a coming-of-age journey that takes players on a multidimensional adventure. As a result, the game features a musical motif that elegantly intertwines a stellar soundtrack with its gameplay. Being the first game from relatively new Australia-based studio Beethoven & Dinosaur, the title was conceived by Johnny "Galvatron," one of the founding members and lead guitarist for the band The Galvatrons. No guitar solo sounds the same, which is quite the feat in a five-hour game.The Artful Escape doesn’t have your typical game development origin story.
You can feel the love of music in every chord you trash. It's a heartfelt love letter to music, which isn't surprising since the game is being spearheaded by a literal rockstar, Johnny Galvatron, former head of rock group The Galvatrons. Guitar shredding against a rich orchestral soundscape is so effortless and easy, anyone could do it. Testing the player's ability to copy a pattern of flashing colours isn't really the point of The Artful Escape.
It's the audiovisual feast that does all the heavy lifting. It's essentially a musical Simon Says, but one that doesn't really change over the course of the story-you'll be doing the same things in the spectacular final performance as you were during the tutorial. This is where the music-making mechanic comes into play, tasking you with mimicking button combinations in a call and response style. There are occasions where Francis has to perform on stage, either at a show or to impress an all-powerful (but musically picky) alien overlord, no biggie.
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