Videomatic Groovitron

Videomatic Groovitron is a videoboard activity based on Phineas and Ferb, developed by Curious Media for the Disney website on March 3, 2012. Unveiled to celebrate Platypus Day 2012, it remained as the Music area of the homepage during a year.

Gameplay[]

Visitors must first customize an avatar by dragging assorted clothing items split in modules for hats, shirts, and accessories onto a posing Perry until a satisfying result is reached. Afterwards, their initial is inserted alongside a two-letter shorthand for a state so that they can be identified in the mix. Recourses on the musical jam comprise selecting the attainable clips to set up a tailored playlist, sorting the tunes by newest, characters, or alphabetically, leaving comments on particular moments for other users to view, and sharing scraps with friends via e-mail.

Customization[]

Hats[]

Rapper beanie
Skull beanie
Headband
Angled cap
Fedora
Backwards cap
Frontal cap
Bowler hat
Sideways cap

Shirts[]

Patterned shirt
Plain shirt
Hued shirt
Simple sleeved
Shaded sleeved
Streaked sleeved
Striped sweater
Star sweater
Checkered sweater

Accessories[]

Sunglasses
Gradient shades
Shutter shades
Beach glasses
Star glasses
Eyepatch
Golden necklace
Silver necklace
Clock necklace
Gleaming ring
Fingerless gloves
Headphones

Songs in game[]

"Summer (Where Do We Begin?)"
"E.V.I.L. B.O.Y.S."
"Busted"
"Gitchee Gitchee Goo"
"My Nemesis"
"When We Didn't Get Along"
"There's a Platypus Controlling Me"
"S.I.M.P. (Squirrels In My Pants)"
"Little Brothers"
"You Snuck Your Way Right Into My Heart"
"Baliwood"
"Brand New Best Friend"
"Fabulous"
"Zubada"
"The Way of the Platypus"
"Platypus Walk"

Gallery[]

Background Information[]

The game's logo, headers, options, and slider bar bear a particular teal and light orange coloration in an ode to the commemorated platypus for the occasion of his own day. Coupled with a vaporwave vignette framework stamped with circles and triangles, its style is reminiscent of the traditional clubs usually including a signature music host.
Surrounding the principal monitor are six spotlights in cyan and yellow and a five-hole speaker chromed in turquoise, further permeating the electronic feeling in tow. Moreover, the user model is positioned on the top right corner next to a disc dashboard.
Users of the jamming pastime were branded as "VJs" in the online advertisement for it, an abbreviation of "video jockey". This is a play on disc jockeys, commonly known as DJs, who are responsible for playing and jumbling music in gatherings, after whom Perry is nicknamed DJ P.
To annex and remove videos from the personal track compilation, the visitor had to click on the green plus button and the yellow cross knob, respectively. Watching the recording sequence required simply the push of the titles in either the playlist or the complete grouping.
While snippets loaded, an outline figure of Perry donning the sideways cap, the checkered sweater, and the golden necklace stayed visible in a chalkboard-esque white tone on top of a gray background.
Three of the garment choices pay homage to certain personalities from the show; the rapper beanie comes from the headgear of a 2 Guyz N the Parque member, the skull beanie is imprinted with the symbol on Buford's shirt, and the beach glasses are replicas of the kind used by Ferb in the tropical party.
Counting every personalization choice, there are a collective of 17,739 icon combinations, factoring in the nine helmets, nine uniforms, and twelve trinkets, as well as the trifle permutations concerning the picks of one eyewear, one collar, and none to all extras. Additionally, a tally of 1,300 individual pen names could be entered considering the amount of letters and regions.
Characters featured in the category screen were, from left to right, Perry, Phineas, Ferb, Isabella, Candace, Buford, Baljeet, and Doofenshmirtz. These were indeed the same ones shown in the topping banner for the series website at the time.
Sending a message to a friend needed the input of the visitor and the companion's names and the latter's digital address. At the bottom of the forwarded e-mail, there was a notice about unsubscribing to correspondence from Disney Channel, indicating that mailing clips added the recipient to other Disney Channel communications.
Initially, only the songs from "Summer (Where Do We Begin)" to "S.I.M.P. (Squirrels In My Pants)" were available to toy around with. Another eight numbers became accessible eventually to complement the medley, measuring in at a sum of sixteen tunes.