Uh, I’m back! What have I been doing, you ask?
Well, I’ve been doing a lot of web-related projects lately, including registering my own sites and building them from the ground up. Yeah, the big dot com boom came and went years ago, but the internet isn’t going away anytime soon.
Have you ever heard of Guitar Hero (and the sequels, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80′s, and the upcoming Guitar Hero III)? If you say you haven’t, well, let’s just say that’s unlikely.
Anyway, Harmonix is developing a new game called Rock Band where instead of just one or two players with guitars, there’s an entire band, including (of course) guitar and bass guitar, microphone, and drums. The microphone as a console peripheral has been around a while, what with Singstar and the Karaoke Revolution games. However, the drums are an entirely new beast, created just for Rock Band.
I anticipate Rock Band becoming huge. Unlike the Guitar Hero games, the majority of Rock Band tracks are going to be originals instead of covers. Whole albums are going to be released for Rock Band, including The Who’s Who’s Next? and Nirvana’s Nevermind. Harmonix anticipates dozens of downloadable tracks by year’s end, and hundreds more in the future, including more whole albums.
So, I created a fan site based on Rock Band, and I’m trying to grow it, but it’s really difficult to drive traffic to a site and get people to register yet another forum account. So, it’s a work in progress.
Anyway, that site and a half dozen others are in various stages of completion. When I make the post that says I’m moving into a house with an ocean view and I can’t decide what color Ferrari to get, you’ll know I’ve succeeded.