But at the time I didn't really know how to do game art, at all. I guess I was that, for a few months, and then I got hired properly after that, as an artist. VICE: I know you mainly because of Lightning Bolt, but you've worked in the games industry a long time, right?īrian Gibson: Yeah, I was hired at Harmonix in 2001 as an intern.
(And just imagine it in VR, without throwing up on yourself.) "Your goal: kill Crakhed!" Some further explanation is offered-"You control a space beetle while careening towards a confrontation with an insane giant head from the future"-but, really, all most people have to go on is the electrifying trailer that came out in February, which you can see below. "You are a space beetle," says its website. But much of what he's done in the past will be cast into shade when the colorful aggression of Thumper strong-arms its way into the rhythm action genre sometime next year.Ī project several years in the making so far, Gibson collaborating with now-Seoul-based programmer Marc Flury on its creation and the pair coming together under the umbrella of Drool, Thumper is pitched as a "rhythm violence" game. He's served as an artist on several games for Harmonix, the studio behind Guitar Hero and Rock Band, as well as the about-to-relaunch Amplitude and the Disney-affiliated Fantasia: Music Evolved. The band's other Brian, Gibson, has a lesser known side-line to his bass-slaying position as 50 percent of Lightning Bolt-indeed, it's been a full-time gig for him more often than not. Lightning Bolt have always done that to a man, and a few drinks in the effect is only ever going to be amplified. Even from outside the epicenter of the racket, though, I was moved to thrash a limb or two in wild celebration of this duo's blithesome bombast. The stage wasn't for them-they'd set up on the floor, in one corner of the center's second room. I watched the bodies writhe from a position of (relative) safety the band, Lightning Bolt (no idea? Check out this Noisey interview), buried somewhere within the throng.
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