Guitar Idol

October 1, 2010

Updated on October 5, 2025

Timeline: 2009 to 2010

Platform: Mega Drive / Genesis

My Contributions

The only-ever guitar game for the SEGA Genesis, launched in 2009/2010 by Tectoy in Brazil, bundled in the Mega Drive 4 incarnation. Designed and developed by a small team of 4 at Interama, I created the initial concept and helped sell the project to TecToy. This incarnation of the console went on to sell a lot better than its predecessor, the 2008 Mega Drive 3.

Design & UX	Product & Production	Engineering
High-level game design Systems design, adapting the concept of Guitar Hero into a much more limited hardware of the Mega Drive; Pitch decks for funding.	Business development close to Tectoy; Production proposal and budgeting; Review and QA of the product.	The game is developed in C with very basic APIs for the Titan board. Tools to create and tune the track design ("level design") were developed in C#. Custom asset exporters created in C++.

Design & UX

Product & Production

Engineering

High-level game design
Systems design, adapting the concept of Guitar Hero into a much more limited hardware of the Mega Drive;
Pitch decks for funding.

Business development close to Tectoy;
Production proposal and budgeting;
Review and QA of the product.

The game is developed in C with very basic APIs for the Titan board.

Tools to create and tune the track design ("level design") were developed in C#. Custom asset exporters created in C++.

My Contributions

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