Electroplankton makes weird noises on Japanese DSiWare this week

by JC Fletcher { Jul 6th 2009 at 2:00PM }

Nintendo continues to release bite-size portions of old DS games as DSiWare games, which may rankle some, but we think its latest broken-up DS game makes a lot of sense. The company plans to release Electroplankton in Japan as ten individual 200-point downloads, each consisting of one of the "plankton" instruments from the "game."

This Wednesday, Tracy, Hanenbon, Nanocarp, and Beatnes will be available on Japan's DSi Shop. On July 22, Rec Rec and Lumiloop will be released. Finally, in August, Sun Animalcule, Luminaria, Marine Snow, and Volvoice will be available.

This could be the perfect venue for creator Toshio Iwai to release future musical toys. Could Electroplankton continue this way, with new instruments being released periodically? It's probably not wise to hope for anything that isn't a segment of an existing game, but it's possible!

Tags: dsi, dsiware, electroplankton, nintendo-dsi, toshio-iwai

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Cyantre @ Jul 6th 2009 2:49PM

If this came out in the US, and I had a DSi, I would buy a few of these. I had Electroplankton and there only a select handful of the games I found myself coming back to.

Robert27 @ Jul 6th 2009 3:04PM

I bought the game for the DS and I liked it but I would say it´s more like a little piece of art rather than a game.

Phenylketonurics @ Jul 6th 2009 5:33PM

Which makes sense considering that Toshio Iwai is a very popular multimedia artist in Japan...

I also have this DS game and it's quite entertaining. I've lost hours just playing with catchy tunes. Iwai's purpose of Electroplankton was to bring musical creation to the everyday joe. He's not a musician himself [but he's definitely learned a lot from other projects I'm sure!] but he loves light and sound.

I don't know about downloading this game in portions but buying the actual cartridge, albeit a bit pricey, is much more sensible. IF you're cool with just messing with sound randomly since this thing has no save feature, heh.