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Rock Band using Drupal
The website of Rock Band, a music video game for the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 is using Drupal. The game was developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games, and distributed by Electronic Arts Partners, but who built the website?
Really? How can you tell?
Lines 6-12 of the source code reveal a classic Drupal 5 directory structure: specifically paths to the "sites", and "themes" directories.
Looks like Harmonix Music built the site themselves. At least they a re looking for a Drupal developer for their growing web team, see their job offers: http://www.harmonixmusic.com/jobs.html
Yeap, as soon as HMX began playing with the new community site (previously they were running VBulletin with some sort of third-party community module for profiles/blogs/myspace-like functionality, if i remember correctly), we were finding links that were popping up with Drupal 404 errors. The Harmonix team did an amazing job with the site. The HMX team is very cool, very open to a lot of current stuff, and their internal team (including Chris M.) are awesome.
I'm sure they've got LOADS of awesome stuff coming out with Rock Band 2, although I'm still waiting for that damn "photo shoot" feature that was so highly touted! Where is that, Chris?? :D
Really? How can you tell? Did they send you an email thanking you for the CMS?
It's just hard to believe that my two passions are united in awesomeness.
December 27, 2007 - 20:56Really? How can you tell?
December 27, 2007 - 22:52Lines 6-12 of the source code reveal a classic Drupal 5 directory structure: specifically paths to the "sites", and "themes" directories.
According to the changelog...they're running Drupal 5.1.
http://www.rockband.com/CHANGELOG.txt
December 28, 2007 - 05:07Looks like Harmonix Music built the site themselves. At least they a re looking for a Drupal developer for their growing web team, see their job offers:
December 27, 2007 - 21:43http://www.harmonixmusic.com/jobs.html
Yep we used Drupal and are loving it. We will be using it also to interface directly with our game engine.
We are seeking Drupal programmers and web systems administrators - anyone interested?
We are in Cambridge, MA. If you're interested, please email me at chris dot marstall at harmonixmusic dot com.
chris
January 5, 2008 - 01:31Yeap, as soon as HMX began playing with the new community site (previously they were running VBulletin with some sort of third-party community module for profiles/blogs/myspace-like functionality, if i remember correctly), we were finding links that were popping up with Drupal 404 errors. The Harmonix team did an amazing job with the site. The HMX team is very cool, very open to a lot of current stuff, and their internal team (including Chris M.) are awesome.
I'm sure they've got LOADS of awesome stuff coming out with Rock Band 2, although I'm still waiting for that damn "photo shoot" feature that was so highly touted! Where is that, Chris?? :D
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