[tsc-devel] Re: Secret Chronicles Music...

Chris Jacobsen | Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:15:55 UTC

Okay, that'd be really good.  If you can let me know which song you choose to work on, it'll really help to coordinate with the team.  I'm looking forward to hearing it.
The Pango Introduction (Loop) seems to have an ending, playing a last note and fading out.  This doesn't seem to be a loop, though it's a little hard to tell because soundcloud jumps to the next song when it finishes.
Thank you,
Chris




 

     On Friday, January 16, 2015 7:49 AM, Brett Cahill <…s@l…> wrote:
   

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Thanks for the response,
If it would work for you, I could go over one of the mario songs from the list and come up with something more orchestral sounding, but influenced by the particular mario song. That way, you still get the same feel and hopefully triggers a connection between the two. Obviously though, it will be a different song and not a copy.

In terms of making loops, I don't have a problem with that. If you look at this playlist: https://soundcloud.com/in-contrast/sets/pangeo

All of the compositions there are loops, so I should be able to make more loopable music for you :)

Let me know if this sounds good to you,

Regards,
Brett

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 05:13:27 +0000
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Subject: Secret Chronicles Music...

incontrast, I had replied to you on Game Jolt, but I figured I should reply by email, too.

Usually Secret Chronicles doesn't really use a retro style for music.  Even the 2D images tend to try and simulate 3D lighting in some way.  Your orchestral sound could work really well in the game.  We've been working on a new draft of the story and are wanting to eventually add cinematic scenes (using sprites) to the game.  Cinematic orchestral music will really work well with these goals.  I especially enjoyed your combat piece -- it was well composed. We actually do a have a military theme song task (https://github.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/issues/239).  The big priority right now is, of course, knocking out the Mario remixes for the release.  Ideally replacements would have the same feel or elicit the same reaction from people when they listen to them but would not sound at all like Mario music.  Generally level music needs to be loopable.
 If you start on something, let us know if you could so that we can keep track of work being done.  Someone else just responded to the game jolt posting and created a dying music replacement, but the other songs are still pending at the moment.  We also could try an iterative approach, listening to each version as it's further developed, but it's up to you what work style works best for you.
-Chris (I also go by datahead)...