HI Guys, glad you liked it.
Yeah, rez, fantastavision, every extend, shmups generally, toshio
iwai, etc etc are all big influences,
Its written in C++ Opengl with fmod for the lib atm (though i might
roll my own portaudio version at some point)
I dont really intend to release any source code, its just not my
thing, especially since the way i make stuff is so spagetti, bespoke
and horrible.
The major issue with it has been tuning it for a specific
audience/player.. in this case a gallery goer,
The majority of punters are 'gallery conditioned' to jsut stand at the
back and look on nervously. the next set are accustomed to *cough*
digital art, where they might wiggle a mouse or maybe click a random
button and then wonder if the visual results had maybe something to do
with their actions..
The final set were obviously those with experience of gaming and
*shock* actually got into it.
This last lot (admittedly perhaps 1/10) would actually start to hog
the machine, determined to play through successive 'levels'> I know
that I shouldnt really expect games to work super well in galleries,
but i cant help myself trying..
I'm planning to make a more indepth, gamelike, less 'art' (probably)
version for download (possibly commercial) as another exeriment, but
we'll see...
The chain reaction is a nice idea, i did think about it and it would
probably work much better in a home-played game. I have realtime tempo
changes and freezes in the gallery version and that was enough to
freak people out already. (which was partly my ambition anyway :)
What consistently impresses me is that spamming a 16 beat sequence (9
voices of percussion and melodic samples)with notes (as a result of
the game mechanics) almost always results in a composition that sounds
very deliberate.. But this was partly the driving idea behind the game
too.
cheers
T.
On 16 April 2010 12:42, Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> It reminds me a lot of Rez (that's a compliment), but in a 2.5D
>> fashion (also a compliment).
>>
>
> I second this, with a hint of Fantavision.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpfhozTOivA&feature=related
> Fantavision I bought solely because of the very unusual gameplay and the
> design.... but sadly it's not a very good game, at least I didn't keep
> playing it. Part of my problem with it is a lack of integration of the
> elements. Adding Rez-style quantisation to the sound effects would have made
> it a lot better, I think.
> This sequencer/game/interface/artwork deals with that, so that's good. I'd
> say there are interesting bits to Fantavision that could be "borrowed", like
> the funky control scheme.
> Another thing this reminds me of a bit (mainly in the styling) is Every
> Extend Extra
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPtmysdsUYA&feature=related
> Both EEE and Fantavision use chain reactions, while this doesn't (and
> neither does Rez). Chain reactions might be both musically and graphically
> interesting and create a larger link between the 2d layout and the musical
> options. I also suspect that some degree of difficulty would make this keep
> the attention for longer but it might be hard to implement "difficulty" in a
> musically sensible way while keeping enough options for musical expression
> open.
> I love the styling and would appreciate updates and more info.
> Yours,
> Kas.
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