The Ring-Con controller that comes bundled with Ring Fit Adventure is a pretty smart piece of kit already, combining with the Switch's Joy-Con to keep you active, work your muscles, and even measure your heartbeat. As it turns out, though, it can be used for a whole lot more than that.
Ressa Schwarzwald, audio producer at TinyBuild Games, has utilised the forces of development magic to transform Nintendo's fitness controller into a working accordion. Over on YouTube, Ressa's shown off a demonstration of the 'Ringcordion' in action; the project uses a mixture of Unity and Wwise, converting various Ring-Con movements into beautiful music blasts.
Check it out:
As you can see, buttons on the Joy-Con can be used to change key, and tilting the Ring-Con lets you switch between major and minor. The whole thing feels like the sort of project Nintendo Labo would have you do, except there's far less cardboard and folding involved here.
Pretty neat, huh? We bet our Ring-Con's feeling pretty jealous after seeing this – the poor thing's been left to gather dust after we ditched that whole "exercise" thing in favour of our favourite 'pizza and sofa' combo.
[source youtube.com]
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This is the kind of news I need right now.
Wii Music wishes!
I swear some of the "Random" articles feel like they'd come from the Onion except they're actually real and I love it.
I guess maybe Weird Al is happy.
That's really neat. Now I need a remix of Kass' Theme played on a Ring-Con.
I must say it's a bit disappointing that she doesn't actually play a song or anything... Kind of odd to make an instrument, show it off, explain how it works, but then not make any music with it. Maybe she's more of a programmer than a musician? Still weird.
"Working" accordion might be a stretch. Doesn't sound like you can play melodies on it, and she hasn't explained how all twelve major chords are covered by the buttons, but as far as I can assume, you can't reach all keys without having to take your hands off the ring. I won't fault her, though; "working accordion" was Nintendolife's words, not hers.
I can't be the only one that saw the image for this post and thought Wii Music was coming to Switch... can I?
The tone of that made me seriously think she was about to bust out the Mario Bros 2 overworld theme
@DAHstroy Oh boy, the world is NOT ready for Switch Music.
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