Once the game starts it will ask players to place a specific type (color) of card onto the playing field, scoring points for how quickly you are able to respond, and losing points if you are too slow or make a mistake in location or intensity level. Players each start with a deck of cards and draw a small handful to start. The competitive and cooperative game modes make use of the colors associated with each slot on the platform. On the app screen you can even change the key or the tempo of the song. In this mode, the colors for the slots on the platform don’t matter and you can add together any card track that you want. The first is freeform where one can mix and match cards to form your own favorite beat. Some cards are wild (change depending on the slot) and other cards are white (which add special effects.) The platform does a surprisingly good job of quickly reading the cards, even if the cards are stacked 10 deep (only the top card will be mixed into the track.) Yellow are lead melodies (typically vocals), blue are percussion, green are harmonies, and red cards are melodies. Slots on the board and cards have a color which roughly corresponds to a particular type of track. When a card is placed into one of the five slots, the NFC chip contained in the card is read by the board and triggers the app to start playing that particular track. The platform has a handy slot to hold a phone or tablet so that it can be seen during play. Players must download the DropMix app and then sync up (via Bluetooth) their phones (or tablets) to the platform.
The base DropMix game consists of a card-reader platform with five color-coded slots, plus 60 different sound mix cards that come in four themes: Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop, and Dance/Electronic. As a game, DropMix is so-so, but for music fans it can be a fun and interesting toy.
While the game doesn’t have much depth, the fun in the system lies with messing around with different combinations of the available tracks. Players compete or cooperate while playing a matching game to create new sound mixes. Players drop music track cards into slots on the board, mixing their sounds together to make new remixes of their own. DropMix makes a game out of the role of a DJ.
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