Harmonix’s Dropmix is a weird but fun musical mashup card game
Harmonix — the studio behind Rock Band and the original Guitar Hero — has long experimented with fusing technology, games, and music. Aside from getting millions of people to play with plastic instruments in their living rooms, the developer released games that made use of Sony’s EyeToy camera, Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor, and even Apple’s old click wheel iPod. It was one of the first developers to start making games for the Apple TV. Now Harmonix has partnered with Hasbro on perhaps its strangest creation yet: Dropmix, an experience that fuses a Bluetooth-enabled game board, NFC playing cards, and a mobile app to create a playful musical mash-up tool. It’s surprisingly fun — though for most people, it likely won’t have the lasting…
