Follow the blog On Tour

Posted May 28th 2008 12:30PM by Phil Larsen
Filed under: News

When you're not cool enough to follow a real band around, you can hop on over to IGN and do the next best thing. The team from Vicarious Visions have started up a blog to share some of their hotel-smashing experiences with the readers as they went about creating the first portable iteration of the popular chick-magnet rhythm series -- Guitar Hero: On Tour.

The first entry chronicles some of the initial problems and questions the team faced, such as "Are we crazy?" and "Is this possible?". The above image is an example of some of the original prototypes that were developed, including the three-button design which was scrapped in favor of the current model. Go check it out!

Gallery: Guitar Hero: On Tour

Tags: activision, development, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-on-tour, music, rhythm, vicarious-visions

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