That really is the best way to describe FRACT OSC, an upcoming indie puzzle game from Phosfiend. But what does that really mean? The video above gives a good sense of how the game will work. » 2/05/14 6:30pm 2/05/14 6:30pm

If you're a regular Kotaku Melodic » 6/21/12 9:00pm 6/21/12 9:00pm reader, you're no stranger to the idea that despite many developers' cinematic aspirations, video games have more in common with music than they do with film.

It took me a long time to understand synthesizers. When I was a kid, I would often think of a synthesizer as being more or less the same thing as an electric piano—wasn't a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer basically just a synthesizer?

No, in fact—a synthesizer, like a Moog or a Yamaha CS-15, is much more complicated and… » 2/23/12 9:00pm 2/23/12 9:00pm