Back to Bassics

Back to Bassics is a 2.5D paper rhythm game with a combat focused twist! The notes that you tap to are enemy attacks that you deflect or dodge, and you strike back with some rhythmic grooves of your own in order to whittle away at their paper forms! 

Enemies don’t fight fair; they’ll do their best to use the tricks up their sleeves to get you to mess up and cut you apart! 

Not everyone’s out here to get you, though! Some paper people want to be paper pals!

Talk to them as you explore the paper island you’ve found yourself in, figure out what’s caused the chaos that you’ve found on the island, and cut through whatever you need to bring this island Back to Bassics!

The current build is from a showcase done at WreckCon 2025. 

Credits

Team Leads

• Ryan Abusaada - Lead
• Joseph Seo - Lead

Subleads

• Jungwoo Jang - Audio Sublead
• Esther Moon - Art Sublead

• Aaron Chen - Design
• Adna Cufurovic - Art
• Alan Tao - Programming
• Alyn Kosasi - Programming / Tech Art
• Ana Briceno - Art
• Andy Chen - Programming / Tech Art, Animation, Art, Audio, Design
• Anvitha Mandli - Programming
• Arshiya Rahman - Animation
• Bralin Gar - Programming
• Catherine Tu - Programming
• Chayanat Tanjariyaporn - Programming / Art
• Chih-Ying Lee - Art
• Cynthia Peng - Art
• Diemmy Dang - Programming / Tech Art
• Elliott Chen - Programming / Tech Art
• Emilee Tran - Programming / Tech Art, Animation
• Emily Choi - Art
• Evelyn Chen - Programming / Tech Art
• Grayson Leiter - Programming / Tech Art
• Isabelle Darling - Art
• James Davis - Audio
• Jason Low - Programming / Tech Art
• Kristian Strickland - Programming / Tech Art
• Micah Xu - Design
• Monia Hossain - Art
• Moses Adewolu - Programming
• Nix Pham - Programming
• Olivia Banich - Design
• Rachel Kim - Programming / Tech Art
• Sophia Wang - Audio, Design
• Sophie Clyde - Programming / Tech Art, Animation, Design
• Suemin Kim - Art
• Ticiano Gao - Programming
• Thomas Dayton - Programming
• Vivian Gu - Programming / Tech Art
• Yu Penh He - Programming