Good Game Get! Lilt Line

Lilt Line for the iPhone is dubstep, the video game. The heavily rhythm and tilt-based gameplay is built on an intensely awesome dubstep soundtrack crafted by 16bit.



Lilt Line at its core is graphically simple and very reminiscent of of the guide this object through the scrolling horizontal cave while not hitting anything games, but remove that shallow comparison and you have a very unique rhythm game featuring a genre of music that has been criminally ignored in rhythm/music games.

The game has two controls, one being tilt, (left or right, controlling the pitch at which the line moves) and the other being a finger tap for when the line touches the white vertical bars which are timed with the music. It’s compelling and fun, and at times very difficult steering and trying to stay in tune with the level’s song. You receive score damage each time you let the line hit the walls and when you miss a horizontal beat bar. The level ends when your score reaches zero, and you must start over.



The minimalist art aesthetic the game conveys crashes into the absurdly layered and complicated, but enjoyable dubstep soundtrack and even though technically it’s a video game, I feel more like it’s a playable dubstep album by 16bit called Lilt Line, rather than a video game featuring music by 16bit.



Imagining that is the case really excites me, because I feel that if artists, game designers and musicians want to team up and do more wonderful, simple, and specific ryhthym games like Lilt Line, then they may very well reinvigorate a genre already becoming stale of countless overpriced plastic instrument peripherals and mediocre music.