Ragnarawk
Encyclopedia
Ragnarawk is an musical
role-playing game created for the 2007 Dare to be Digital
video games development competition. The self-proclaimed 'GuitaRPG' combines RPG-style gameplay with a Guitar Hero-style input system. The player character
explores a musically themed world fighting enemies using an enchanted guitar.
The demo version that was released consisted of a Victorian-styled level featuring enemies loosely themed around classical music. Basic enemies consisted of monsters playing harps, flutes and violins, as well as a hidden mid-boss
that rewarded the player with a new guitar after its defeat. The final battle in the demo takes place in a church, against a monster called Morgan, who battles you using a corrupted church organ.
Ragnarawk was developed by Voodoo Boogy, a team of 5 students from Abertay University, 2 from the Computer Games Technology course, and 3 from Computer Arts. In the 2007 Dare to be Digital competition, the game was judged to have the most commercial potential, as well as winning the Audience Award. Ragnarawk was singled out as 'one to watch' by the 2007 British Academy Video Games Awards, and also won the Interactive category at the Scottish Students on Screen awards held in Glasgow on the 14th of March, 2008.
Music video game
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...
role-playing game created for the 2007 Dare to be Digital
Dare to be Digital
Dare to be Digital is a video games design competition targeted at university students and recent graduates, started by University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland in 1999....
video games development competition. The self-proclaimed 'GuitaRPG' combines RPG-style gameplay with a Guitar Hero-style input system. The player character
Player character
A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters...
explores a musically themed world fighting enemies using an enchanted guitar.
The demo version that was released consisted of a Victorian-styled level featuring enemies loosely themed around classical music. Basic enemies consisted of monsters playing harps, flutes and violins, as well as a hidden mid-boss
Boss (video games)
A boss is an enemy-based challenge which is found in video games. A fight with a boss character is commonly referred to as a boss battle or boss fight...
that rewarded the player with a new guitar after its defeat. The final battle in the demo takes place in a church, against a monster called Morgan, who battles you using a corrupted church organ.
Ragnarawk was developed by Voodoo Boogy, a team of 5 students from Abertay University, 2 from the Computer Games Technology course, and 3 from Computer Arts. In the 2007 Dare to be Digital competition, the game was judged to have the most commercial potential, as well as winning the Audience Award. Ragnarawk was singled out as 'one to watch' by the 2007 British Academy Video Games Awards, and also won the Interactive category at the Scottish Students on Screen awards held in Glasgow on the 14th of March, 2008.
External links
- Do you Dare to be Digital?, IGN story discussing Ragnarawk.
- Guitar game takes design prizes, BBC News story about Ragnarawk's Dare to be Digital awards.
- Ragnarawk Trailer, YouTube video from the creators.