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EGX Coverage - Sound Caster

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Article by Adam Ray It's a little known fact that I deeply love rhythm games. Everyone I know has some opinion about the very physical arcade classic, Dance Dance Revolution , while I spent a great deal of the evenings in my youth when I should have been studying instead playing Cytus  on my clapped up old Android phones. EGX has since merged with MCM, making it a whole weekend of nerd culture. My own work with the Mystic Muses D&D Podcast has been well documented at that event, and this will be the first of two rhythm games I had the delight of sampling at that amazing event. Sound Caster  is a hybrid adventure rhythm game with an amazing pixel art style. It's simultaneously a delight for an ADHD sufferer like myself, and a nightmare for an ADHD sufferer like myself. The gameplay loop features you playing two games simultaneously, and finding the harmonious balance between them is the real challenge unlike the actual gameplay itself. On the right side of your screen is the