Virtual Fairground Signs Agreement With Team Behind Rhythm-Action Concept Pulse

Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Virtual worlds and online games production company Virtual Fairground (www.virtualfairground.com), today announced that they will take Pulse, the winning concept of the Dutch Global Game Jam into production. The original concept can be still be downloaded here.

“We recognize a kick-ass concept when we see one”, says Ilja Goossens of the decision made by Virtual Fairground to further develop the concept. “With 97% of the audience voting for Pulse during the Dutch Global Game Jam final, it was clear that the concept struck a nerve. A lot of people within Virtual Fairground love music-based games like Rez, Amplitude, Guitar Hero etc. and the idea holds such strong promise we just had to something with it.”

Virtual Fairground promptly decided to hire some members of the original team and started working on a fully-fledged demo in time for the Game Developers Conference 2009 end of March where they plan on showing the concept of to potential publishers and distributors.