we covered the sound effect stuff, but nobody has discussed music yet…
i see a few choices here:
-we have no music
-we have somebody write theme music original to the game
-we strike deals with garage bands where we can use their music free in exchange for promoting it nationwide through the game.
any other ideas? after some time i will post a poll, so don’t go making a new thread for one lol 
Obviously the easiest, but we need some spice… 
If we could find someone, that would be awesome.
Um, ok, if you know any with good music… 
It would be very cool if we managed to get a theme song written for us. Also, I don’t know about copywrites and stuff that might apply, but we could try to get the playlist used at competitions and see if we could incorporate those in. (Copywrites on the songs obviously. Not the playlist… :rolleyes: )
well, there is this band from Jersey that is fairly new. I don’t know if we can get them for free or not though. They are called the Bamboo Shoots. They are alt. rock with indian influence. I am not sure that their music fits the mood of a robotics competition that much, maybe one or two songs, but in general not. “Talking to Death” might work, or “Interstate 95,” but other than that it wont go well at all with the game.
I know a few around here.
A new position in FIRST: the band.
i’ve added sound to the roster on my computer, forgot that before :rolleyes: . i’ll update the roster on here soon.
Is this music for the intro sequence or during the game? You could probably get away with just crowd noise during the games.
Both, really, but we could definitely use some music for the opening.
now that i think about it, my friend nick is really good at playing several instruments. i haven’t heard any of his original work, but the next time i talk to him i’ll ask him if he would do something for this. he has never had anything released, so i’m sure he would be eager to get in on this
there’s a lot of free, original music available at newgrounds, and you can email music authors to get their permission to use their music, they’ll usually say yes. you have to click on the authors profile to get his email address, if its listed.
ive actually never listened to anything from there, but it’s an option that’s available.
There is also some available at Download.com
there is a good jersey band that i will try to get in the game if you guys want. they sold out their last concert . here is an stream of one of the songs i think might go good in the game: “Talking to Death”](http://bambooshoots.com/multimedia/talking.m3u)
I know a guy who is amazing with synthesized music and such, and would probably create you free theme music, or for a small charge. I’ll see if I can get a sample of some of his music for ya…
When you first start the game and it goes to the main menu, how about this on repeat for backround music. I’m working on getting it to repeat right now. Tell me what you think.
EDIT: Thanks to Dori for getting this hosted so you all can download it.
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love it!
I think this would definitely work for the main menu.
I can kind of picture it. ^__^;
–d0ri
How about an option for the player to compile their own playlist for the game from songs they have on their computer. It would add complexity, and you might need to write a plugin for Winamp or something, but I think it would be worth it.
I have a friend whose a techno junkie. I know he has written and mostly recorded one song, and that was awhile ago. I’ll try to get in touch with him and see if we can use his song(s).
We could do that, and not necessarially complexly. We could just force the user to put the paths into a text file (we could have an in-game interface), one per line, then just randomly select one and play it. It would obviously have to be in only a few restricted formats, but, hey, you’ll get over it.
We could use Winamp v2.9, There’s a messaging interface for it. There’s even VB samples to do it!
just got to the thread sorry =P… but a friend of mine has a band… actually… im good friends with 3 local bands… 1 punk, 1 is kinda … dunno… not really a band but w/e… and one hardcore/metal band… i could easily get thier work if you guys wont some…
i like the sound of the mp3… maybe just make a lil better transition so it flows more smoothly… i put it on a 0sec repeat time and it just seemed to diffrent from end to start over… just IMO…
great! post the mp3s here when you get them.