{"id":51673,"date":"2026-05-12T05:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51673"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:59:58","slug":"mixtape-interview-where-do-you-set-your-fantasy-stories-you-set-them-in-places-like-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51673","title":{"rendered":"Mixtape Interview: &quot;Where do you set your fantasy stories? You set them in places like California.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1542\/15425433\/4693070-8948542976-46921.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Mixtape boldly asks its players to make memories to good music, mixing its coming-of-age story with a head-banging soundtrack filled with the likes of Devo, The Smashing Pumpkins, and The Jesus and Mary Chain. It\u2019s the sophomore release from Beethoven &amp; Dinosaur, an Australian developer known for The Artful Escape, a psychedelic exploration of a musician wanting to create his stage persona.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mixtape is a little more down to earth, following music lovers Stacey, Cass, and Slater on Stacey\u2019s final night in their small town before she follows her dreams and moves to New York. Our reviewer Mark Delaney gave it a 9\/10, praising how the game pairs \u201cits heartfelt, often hilarious moments with a sweeping soundtrack to create a coming-of-age story I&#8217;ll never forget.\u201d GameSpot caught up with Mixtape\u2019s director Johnny Galvatron earlier this year to discuss Beethoven &amp; Dinosaur\u2019s approach to making the game.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>GameSpot: Do you always think in songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/mixtape-interview-where-do-you-set-your-fantasy-stories-you-set-them-in-places-like-california\/1100-6539888\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixtape boldly asks its players to make memories to good music, mixing its coming-of-age story with a head-banging soundtrack filled with the likes of Devo,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[22478,2829,8324,22432,1396,22477,1814,1726],"class_list":["post-51673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-california-quot","tag-fantasy","tag-interview","tag-mixtape","tag-places","tag-quotwhere","tag-set","tag-stories","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}