Indonesia-based game development startup, Touchten, has partnered with music label Aquarius Musikindo to jointly launch TouchJam, a web-based rhythmic game that challenges gamers to match a sequence of notes onscreen using the A-S-D-J-K-L keys on the keyboard. It plays a little like the Tap Tap mobile games, but TouchJam is certainly more challenging with three more buttons to handle.
TouchJam is also uniquely Indonesian as it is dedicated to only Indonesian artists. The game is free to play with a simple Facebook login.
Touchten is known more as a mobile-focused gaming company, so TouchJam is in fact its first web-based game. The folks at Touchten hope that the game can help enrich the Indonesian gaming and music industry. I can’t help but think it would be fun to have a version for mobile too.
So far, Touchten has developed 12 games which have generated a total of 2.7 million downloads. The company raised a round of funding from Ideosource last year. One of its popular games, Hachiko, was even mentioned by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt in his talk at Bali, Indonesia last year.