People have been seeing me post this WIP on my WIP twitter for some time and originally I was only going to post it here since this is where all my polished, finished stuff lives, but something came up at the time I finished it and I didn’t have time to fully write out this post since there’s a lot I’d like to cover so I at least posted it because I was so happy to have finished and held off on this proper post until I could properly put down everything I wanted to say regarding it. ^^”
So this is my concept for DJ School 2! I wanted to do some fully colored, lined and shaded drawings for potential minigame sequels and me being who I am, this was the first on my list to go to. Glow sticks and rave themed, of course!
I came up with a gameplay idea I was really happy with too in this hypothetical DJ School 2, since it matches with the rave theme. A lot of sequels (first ones that come to mind for me are Fillbots 2 and Screwbot Factory 2) like to mess with the lights to try and throw the player off on visual cues, and I think a potential DJ School 2 could use this too! Particularly I think after the player stops the record after “break, c’mon, ooh!”, the lights go out completely and don’t come back on until the player successfully lands the following Scratch-O, where the crowd cheers for the success. And alternatively if the player fails that input, there is a very unsatisfactory slapping noise followed by the lights coming on, showing DJ Yellow holding his nose in pain after being smacked by his partner.
I’d like to think of even introducing a new mechanic like some of the sequels do to give DJ Yellow more stuff to do, I doubt it would be very complicated, but I think some actual record scratching would be cool as other people who came up with DJ School 2 ideas have done, and I’d like to see it as a sort of “repeat after me” mechanic where the player needs to copy the scratches Yellow does, as opposed to the minigame’s usual style of responding to cues with the same actions.
I’m not of a very musical mind so I can’t speak on what exactly I think the song of this should sound like, but my vision is of course a remix of the original DJ School with a far faster tempo and the music taking a much more electronic pitch, perhaps even bitcrushed to some extent. Who knows?
And to end off, the description I wrote for it!!
“You’ve proven yourself worthy at the DJ School, so now it’s time to take to the stage for a partner show between pros!”