David Gaider’s Summerfall Studios is staging a musical in video game form with Chorus

If David Gaider would’ve had his way, he would’ve made his musical game years ago — as downloaded content for Dragon Age: Inquisition. But his bosses at BioWare said no.

So now he and his new Summerfall Studios is making a musical game of their own. At PAX Australia on Friday, Gaider and crew announced Chorus, which has an urban fantasy setting. It’s not a role-playing game (Gaider’s been working on those for decades); they call it an “adventure musical.” The studio has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fig, and Summerfall is working with luminaries such as Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory and voice actors Troy Baker and Laura Bailey to bring this to life.