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Daniel Johnston iPhone game
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 1 October 2009
If I was compiling a list of musicians most likely to be the subject of an iPhone game, cult singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston would not be on it. So it’s lucky I haven’t made such a list, because it would just have been proved meaningless.
Hot on the heals of a round of re-issues, not to mention his forthcoming new album, ‘Is And Always Was’, which will be released by Feraltone on 2 Nov, a new game called ‘Hi, How Are You?’ has been made available for iPhones, allowing players to take control of one of Johnston’s cartoon creations Jeremiah The Innocent while listening to some of his music.
The game’s makers, Peter Franco and Steve Broumley of DrFunFun and Smashing Studios, told The New York Times: “We wrapped the game around [Daniel’s] whole story of a man going through life trying to find his true love but constantly having to contend with evil and with Satan, which are probably the demons within himself”.
Although he apparently played the game during it’s development, Johnston remembered little about it when asked. He the NYT: “[It’s] just another milestone in Daniel Johnston history, I guess. If they make it into a real video game, it might work out, I guess. I don’t even know what an iPhone is”.
Download the game from iTunes here
