infectuous ♠

As in – amount of videos ‘patiently’ uploaded this month with all the frame skipping and nonsense. Ok, been playing more with music than the actual..whatever..’content’ thing or stuff needed for a game.

For some odd reason, I’ve discovered that randomly poking around a few programs can actually generate something that closely resembles..well, music. Pretty happy with it as its as random as it gets but quite fitting for what I had in mind and highly experimental at the same time. The only problem is to try not to actually learn any of these as it might start to sound too good, HaH.

The tools used – Ordrumbox, free, java based drum sequencer, very nice.

VST host, hell..freeware VST host and with a ton of instruments out there available for free, that’s where most of these sounds were made.

SunVox, love this one, there’s also mobile/palm/iphone version too, free for desktop (Mac/Linux/PC) though so it’s a must for me as all the moon songs were made with it, dreamy!

The rest is also free and the usual choice, Audacity to mix all these together and Sfxr to add some ‘bleepbeep..boorrrthetetetet’ sounds. I really don’t have a gram of patience when it comes to interfaces of pro tools with zillions of knobs and such nor clue, time or desire to figure that out (will leave that to pros) so these tools are cools and that’s a wrap.

Blastmevideos with actual music samples (gotta work on actual game stuff as this is really old now, someday!)

Casbah City music from Lobo on Vimeo.

Casbah menu test from Lobo on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

Making games can be fun too, as in..spend so much time trying to do something simple in a hardest way but then relax to yodel. Which, by the way, is connected somewhat to the story or a task needed for this particular location. Said too much so here’s relax video ~

Yodeltest from Lobo on Vimeo.

Enjoy.

Ahoy, check Jungool V1.1 released with a new and improved price drop right here. Go check, alarm the jungle, ‘plunge’ ( )!

Now, Casbah. Currently on the 3rd iteration (and final hopefully) of the actual city, something inspired with a C64 Batman (Caped Crusader) game from like 1988 or so. That game had this really sweet comic book like frame transition between maps where the previous frames (locations) are burned in the background. How did they do it back in the day I have no clue but I took the opportunity to use it as previous 2 versions simply didn’t work.

The first version had a whole town layout and working elevators to go distances (it was quite a huge map), change of day/night, weather, birds during a day/bats during a night, lights on/off, all sorts of things like that. Not something I can’t live without though as it’s more important to make the map work without loosing frame rate or weird stuff happening to collisions.
Second version did fit kinda naturally with the game (it can be seen in the video) but I still wanted the city to show somewhat, no matter how limited it might be now (you can’t shoot no more on these maps, for example).

Casbahtman

So, progress. Little by little, about maybe 2% of the game done so far but hey! it’s rolling.
And Video -

Casbah vien la sera from Lobo on Vimeo.

Enjoy!