Hands on with Dropchord, Double Fine's Leap motion-controlled rhythmic score-attack g

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The team at Double Fine Studios who made Kinect Party has shifted its gears into experimenting with a new form of motion control with the Leap controlled music score-attack game Dropchord.
For those unfamiliar with Leap, it's a little Kinect-like sensor you place on a table under your hands and it tracks every movement of your digits through what I'm assured is some sort of voodoo witchcraft. Allegedly, it's 200 times more accurate than Kinect.
It's certainly impressive the first time you move your hands in range of the tiny camera (that's barely bigger than a thumb drive) and it tracks all 10 of your fingers. Controlling that many reticules sounds messy and confusing, though, so Dropchord sticks to a simple enough two-finger setup.
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