I couldn't wait to run around little sunny islands with my friends! It seemed to bring a promise of relief from isolation that was finally setting in as dreadful. I was looking forward to its release from an increasingly cold and rainy part of the world. Animal Crossing: New HorizonsĪnimal Crossing almost certainly saved my sanity while I was still in London. It's not easy to make something so fucked up on pure vinyl, trust me I tried! My final take: Fuser is to actual DJing as Divekick is to Street Fighter, and I love it for that. Whether you make those decisions for good or evil is up to you-I admire the truly grotesque mashups we saw coming out of Fuser social media for a while. The best part is how it takes away all the most difficult parts of DJing to keep you focused on listening and making purely musical decisions.
I like the variety in its library of music and how it forces me to play with music I wouldn't usually curate for myself. It's really fun! Fuser necessarily simplifies the physical precision required to be a DJ, but it all still works. After I'd been practicing dropping, cutting, mixing, and scratching in an analog fashion, I got to try it all in Fuser. My interest grew enough that I invested in my first set of turntables this summer, a couple months before Fuser dropped. I felt kind of activated by that content and started falling down a well of studying the history, technologies, and techniques of DJing. While I was studying electronic music in London, we did a unit on hip hop & turntablism. The timing of the release was coincidental, too. You probably already know I'm a huge fan of Harmonix games! I was really happy to see them making new work, even though it's revisiting their very cool card game DropMix. Here's my top 10 great escapes from a shit year! 10. And with a summer vacation from studying I got to catch up on games I didn't get to play in 2019. Thankfully I did make it back home and settled in with the help of family. Lemme tell ya, London is a really cool place to live when you can be out in it! But when you're stuck in a single room it's a different story, even when you have time to make some awful experimental music. When the lockdown hit in March I was settled in SE London, trying to keep up with my studies and wondering how long to watch the pandemic unfold before I needed to move back home. I had approximately three months of normalcy in 2020, if you count studying for a Bachelor's degree in a foreign country "normal". You can find her on Twitter it's been a hell of a year. Samantha Kalman is a Seattle-based game developer currently working at Respawn on Apex Legends.
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