Coming soon · A game for Android

Run the shop by day. Rock the basement by night.

Resonatrix is a pixel-art game about running a little record shop and DJing in your own basement, built around the music already on your phone. Sell records by day, then head downstairs, mix your own tracks and keep the crowd moving.

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  • Android
  • Pixel art
  • Your own music
  • Shop + DJ
Illustration of the game’s look. Not a screenshot; the game’s art is still in progress.

The loop

Two places, one stairway.

The shop and the basement are joined by a staircase. Walk down it when the shutters close, and walk back up when the night is done.

☀ By day

Run the record shop

Customers wander in, dig through the crates, try a record at the listening post and queue at the till. Keep the crates stocked and the cash coming in.

☾ By night

DJ in your basement

Head downstairs, step up to the decks and mix two of your own tracks. The crowd grows as the energy builds, the lights follow the bass, and a good night earns you tips.

What’s in the crate

A DJ game that plays your music.

Your own music

Pick a folder of tracks from your phone and they become the records in the shop and the tunes in your sets. No music is bundled with the game.

Two decks and a mixer

Two decks with play, cue and a pitch fader, bass, mid and treble per channel, and a crossfader, all made for fingers. Several fingers work at once.

Beat-matching that helps

Each track’s tempo is worked out on your phone, and SYNC lines the second deck up with the first, so the kicks land together.

A crowd that reacts

Dancers arrive as the energy rises and bob to the tempo. Keep the mix tight and they stay; let it clash or stop and they drift away.

Upgrades you can see

Spend your takings on string lights, a neon sign, bigger speakers, a sofa, a strobe, an LED dance floor and pro media decks. Every one changes the room.

Sleeves from your artwork

Planned: each record’s sleeve becomes a pixel-art version of the artwork in your own file, so your crates look like your collection.

Gentle on the eyes

The lights follow the music, but strobes are limited to well under three flashes a second, using the same flash limiter as DropSight.

Follow the build.

Resonatrix is being made right now. Follow DeepDrillStudio for progress, first looks at the art and news of the first test build.