Rock Band Art Director Dishes Details

Part one of a two part interview with Harmonix’s Art Director Ryan Lesser is posted at Gamesindustry.biz. In the interview, Lesser discusses the evolution of Harmonix, the purchase of the Guitar Hero franchise and the evolution of Rock Band. He has this to say about the game’s peripherals:

“Rock Band is focusing on guitar, bass, singing and drums, and so far we’ve partnered with a bunch of people. Among those are Roland and Boss and Fender. The instruments are awesome. We just got the final versions of them in the last two weeks, and they’re great.”

“For example, the Fender strat, there’s just something that comes from decades of design in a guitar that we were able to use to make our design work. Partnerships like that really do help us, but regardless of who we go with, the instruments are going to be pretty rad.”

I can hardly believe anyone uses the term “rad” these days.. boy that takes me back to the big hair 80’s of my childhood.