[pythian] Re: PROJECT - Music (secret tracks)
- From: "Enrico Rizzato" <arbegas5@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pythian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 21:11:12 +0200
>We usually call it "Environmental Soundtrack" here.
Tnx :-) I didn't know that.
>If we do this, we are eliminating all the gameplay benefits of the
> environmental soundtrack. If these are our own tracks, but no longer
> connected to the gameplay, it will not be as cool. For instance, you
might
> have a "relaxing" song playing in the dungeon.
>
I agree completely with you :-).
But:
1) many actual games give to the player the option to listen an audioCD
instead of their own soundtracks (and some of them are rpg), while the game
is running. I don't like that, but there are players who likes that. The
"player's choice" on the soundtracks would be something similar to this. I
wouldn't like it (also if I proposed it), but I'm sure that there will be
someone who likes it.
2) if we give the two "options" (the normal one, and the player's choice),
and if the player chooses the second, it's the player that decides the
soundtrack... so he won't blame us if the soundtrack he chose is not much
appropriated to the enviroment his character is moving into...
Moreover, he would have the option to return to the normal feature.
Enrico
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darryl Long" <dlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pythian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:54 PM
Subject: [pythian] Re: PROJECT - Music (secret tracks)
> > I will call this as "enviroment-connected-music".
>
> We usually call it "Environmental Soundtrack" here.
>
> > But the player should have also the possibility to choose the
> > track he prefers amongst those ones the game has got (I will
> > call it "player's-choice-music").
>
> If we do this, we are eliminating all the gameplay benefits of the
> environmental soundtrack. If these are our own tracks, but no longer
> connected to the gameplay, it will not be as cool. For instance, you
might
> have a "relaxing" song playing in the dungeon.
>
> The benefit of letting the player selecting his own music tracks is that
he
> can have his favourite band playing, which he likely prefers over our
music.
> There would be no advantage to playing our music if it wasn't connected to
> the gameplay.
>
> > Moreover I think there should be "secret tracks", which are blocked.
> > It will be like a "reward", or a "prize"...
> > I think it could be a nifty feature.
> > What do you think about?
>
> I like the idea of rewards and prizes, but given our distribution model it
> may not be appreciated. If people spend their time and money downloading
> something, they want to have access to it. So I would suggest packaging
the
> extra MP3's as an optional download.
>
> Finally, to solve the first problem (of losing our environmental
soundtrack)
> we should encode all our music with a header that describes the name and
> usage of the song. For instance, a song might be encoded with a BATTLE
and
> DUNGEON tag that tells the engine to play the song in battle and in
> dungeons. In this way, even bonus tracks the player downloads can be used
> in environmental context.
>
> Ok, so maybe music isn't the best thing to download since it's big and has
> restricted use. What about player skins, player models, weapons and that
> kind of stuff?
>
> Darryl
>
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