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Beat Sneak Bandit’s Wicked Grooves Make You 1000% More Hep Than You Already Are

Video games should use jazz more. Not just for soundtracks, though that would be nice too. Jazz encompasses much more than sound. It’s a flavour. It’s also a ruleset. Or a philosophy.


February 17, 2012
Mobile

Check Out The Wicked-Grooving New iOS Game Beat Sneak Bandit

Today, Simogo’s rhythm-puzzle game Beat Sneak Bandit arrived on the iTunes App Store. Our own Evan Narcisse already wrote it up for us, but I’ve been playing it too and it is terrific. I highly recommend checking it out.


February 9, 2012
Mobile

Funky-Cute Rhythm Stealth Game Beat Sneak Bandit Creeps Onto iOS Next Week

We’ve gotten a few peeks at Beat Sneak Bandit, the charming cartoony larceny game from indie devs Simogo and the thing looks like all kinds of smooth.


January 14, 2012
Mobile

Beat Sneak Bandit Will Be 2012′s Jazziest Game

Indie developers Simogo have loosed another glimpse of their stealth/rhythm/platformer mash-up and the clip makes me need this game in my hands as soon as possible. You can see how the sneaky-toon character movement gets perfectly synced to BSB‘s wonky jazz instrumentals, making you hold both the whole song and patrol patterns in your head at the same time. This can’t come out soon enough for me.


November 12, 2011
Mobile

Simogo Unveils A Funky Little Beat Sneak Bandit

When you think about it, there’s always been a rhythm to stealth video games. The start-stop-start of hiding, moving and hiding again. Darting in and out enemies’ fields of vision. If you move out of time, then the whole sequence gets messed up, just like playing a song. Or a music game.