I recently spoke to John Drake during Harmonix about their new song suit diversion for Xbox One and 360 Kinect: Fantasia Music Evolved. Along side a hands-on with Fantasia, Drake talked about a routine of building for Microsoft Microsoft‘s new machine, and reflected on a swell they have done given a initial Dance Central diversion on 360.

How does building on a Xbox One and 360 Compare? “We’ve been advantageous to be partial of Microsoft’s growth routine for a prolonged time. We adore a thought of controller giveaway gaming and that thought connects to song by dance and by motion.”

“In terms of creation things for Xbox One rather than 360, apparently there’s a easy wins that it’s a aloft powered complement with some-more memory and graphics processing. So for a visible consternation we are perplexing to emanate in Fantasia Music Evolved, we should be means to do some unequivocally cold stuff.”

“The Kinect and a Xbox One camera are partial of a family of inclination and a approach they map together is a lot like a new console. It’s some-more modernized and discriminating yet it’s not throwing divided record that works, it’s unequivocally building on an existent set of collection and frameworks.”

How will Harmonix stay forward of a competition? “We already have a good set of attention defining gesticulate showing and fundamental tracking. we consider on Xbox One with a new camera we’ll a good jump forward of a lot of people. we consider [Fantasia] will be one of a best games we can play in a subsequent year and a half in this launch line-up for Xbox One.”

When will we be rising Fantasia Music Evolved? “We’re not going to launch in a holiday window. We’ll unequivocally be after a new year in 2014 and wish to get it out as shortly as we can so we can play with song in a whole new way.”

Perhaps a biggest plea for a new pretension will be convincing a Dance Central assembly that this diversion offers something for them. For families yet a advantages are transparent and carrying Harmonix during a helm, and a Disney brand, this is expected to be a contingency have “launch window” pretension for Xbox One. Here a pivotal will be how most improved it is on a new console than a strange Xbox 360.

Talking serve with Drake about what Harmonix has to offer families over only party it was engaging to hear about their enterprise to bond everybody with song as creators.

What does a diversion offer over a fun? “We are always perplexing to give non-musicians control of song in engaging ways. The things that though years of training are simply not accessible. One of a engaging things about Fantasia is that Walt Disney Walt Disney was perplexing to make a iconic song of a time permitted to a masses, in a approach that it formerly wasn’t accessible, by adding a visible component to it.”

How do we know when that is working? “We wish to make certain a diversion is always open to anyone no matter what your background. The apparition of awesome: when we are ‘hitting it’ we feel like approach some-more extraordinary than in any other game.”

Is Fantasia Music Evolved a diversion directed during children? “Having a energy to control song is a unequivocally critical impulse for a kid. Even a fondle piano can meant we eventually we finish adult formulating music. We are not creation a kid’s diversion per-se yet a diversion for anyone who loves music. If we wish to play with your family it will be unequivocally smashing to see your kids emanate music. If we are a gamer who loves Journey and super artistic visible practice we’ll have that too. If we are a song fan of any age we are going to have song that is contemporary and fun for you.”

Finally we asked Drake about a Disney angle to a game. How did they hoop a story-telling and find side of a diversion over a kick relating game-play?

“To use Walt Disney’s difference it’s ‘An journey in sound, prophesy and motion’. The anticipation is about we apropos partial of this Fantasia universe. You’re a new sorcerer’s neophyte and we go to a realms to find and expose dark low-pitched instruments that capacitate we to perform along to opposite styles and tones: The Shoal and The Press are dual examples.”

Fantasia Music Evolved will be the in 2014 for Xbox One and Xbox 360.