Backbeat: A Time-Based Sokoban-Style Puzzle Game with a Funky Twist
Backbeat is a full version game developed by Ichigoichie for Windows. It is a strategy game that falls under the subcategory of puzzles and is set in the 1990s suburban America. The game revolves around Stephanie "Watts" Watson, an aspiring bassist, who forms a band of hometown amateurs to take on the art school darlings La Tormenta at the Battle of the Bands.
The game features 40 levels of strategic madness where each character in your band moves through the sokoban puzzle maps in different ways, encountering unique solutions and obstacles. The game also features strategy-esque squad resources and rewindable turns to optimize your solutions. Each character has his own resource-limited super move, and strategic use of these super moves increases the number of solutions to each puzzle and is the key to gaining a maximum score. Four resource-based musical metrics govern how and when you can move and interact with objects in the levels, creating amazing musical chains and high scores when regulated artfully. Join Watts on her musical journey rooted in funk and fusion, and customize your performance with alternate playing styles, instruments swaps, and real-time audio effect pedals.
