January 2015 - tsc-devel - Lists.Secretchronicles.Org

by Chris Jacobsen

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 <icsoundtracks(a)live.com> wrote: #yiv7194092270 --.yiv7194092270hmmessage P{margin:0px;padding:0px;}#yiv7194092270 body.yiv7194092270hmmessage{font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;}#yiv7194092270 Hey there, 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 From: cjj_009(a)yahoo.com To: icsoundtracks(a)live.com CC: tsc-devel(a)lists.secretchronicles.de 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)...

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Fw: Would you be interested in rejoining the (SMC) project...

by Chris Jacobsen

On Friday, January 16, 2015 1:02 PM, Markus Hiebl <hiebl(a)frostbringer.net> wrote: Hello, I'm happy to hear, that the project isn't dead. And also develops in a direction I personally like. But I'm sorry to say, that I don't have much time to spare. I work full-time in customer support, which is extremely draining. And most days I simple don't want to turn my PC on. And this little time I spend is at the moment used for my own project, which develops at a glacial pace. Most of the time I'm just busy with re-factoring things, that a few weeks ago sounded like a good idea. Also, I consider myself more a bad programmer then a bad artist. Back then I was mostly toying around with Inkscape, without really getting anywhere. Something that also turned me off is, that there isn't a useful style guide. There is of course http://wiki.secretchronicles.de/StyleGuide , but without any pictures as references this isn't much help. Also, there is a lot of important information missing. Like for example level of detail or allowed side-ratio. And if I remember correctly the question if gradients are allowed or are just evil was never answered. Although I have to stress, that this isn't the reason for not participating, but would have been my focus. Anyway, I wish you best luck with this project, Sincerely, Hiebl Am 2015-01-09 um 01:17 schrieb Chris Jacobsen: > > FrostBringer, > > We have continually been working toward Release 2.0 of Secret Maryo > Chronicles. It will be the first release in five years. We are getting > fairly close to having a tangible release now. > > Actually, we are changing the name of the game to "The Secret Chronicles > of Dr. M" (also known as T.S.C.). This is in order to remove "Maryo", a > clear reference to "Mario". We are likewise swapping out other Mario > graphics with new, original graphics. Bugsbane (helios) has posted a > number of new graphics for this, but there are still a number left to > change. > > Quintus is the project lead, and Luiji is second in command now. I have > been working on a draft for the new story myself. We have 4/5 > programmers, up to 3 musicians, up to 2 artists, and a number of beta > testers now. > > Many of the artists have limited time (or sometimes get busy), so if you > are able to contribute any artwork again, it could help us keep the > project moving quickly. You had contributed a good number of assets to > the SMC game before. We'd love to see what you might be able to produce > for the latest version of the game. > > Quintus has posted a new website on a new server and with a new forum > at: http://www.secretchronicles.de/en/. This will give us the admin > access we need to manage the site and allow us to directly combat spam bots. > > We maintain the issue tracker for features/bugs (along with code and > assets at): https://github.com/Secretchronicles/TSC > Our IRC Channel is #secretchronicles on freenode.net > Our mailing list is tsc-devel(a)lists.secretchronicles.de > > Thank you, > Chris Jacobsen (datahead)

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Fw: Secret Chronicles Music...

by Chris Jacobsen

On Friday, January 16, 2015 7:48 AM, Brett Cahill <icsoundtracks(a)live.com> wrote: #yiv6126605505 #yiv6126605505 --.yiv6126605505hmmessage P{margin:0px;padding:0px;}#yiv6126605505 body.yiv6126605505hmmessage{font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;}#yiv6126605505 Hey there, 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 From: cjj_009(a)yahoo.com To: icsoundtracks(a)live.com CC: tsc-devel(a)lists.secretchronicles.de 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)...

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Music by Qwak...Also, can anyone help...

by Chris Jacobsen

Qwak has responded to the gamejolt posting and asked about helping. He posted a link to his music at:https://soundcloud.com/qwak Give it a listen and see if you like some of it and if maybe we can use it in the game. If anyone can help to look through the soundcloud music links I've sent (for 3 people's music) for good songs and help talk with musicians, it would be appreciated. I've got a lot of tough stuff to figure out with my grad degree by next week, and Quintus is completely tied up with studying for exams. Mario music replacements are of course a "critical red" task for our release right now, so this is one of the best ways you can help on the project. Keep in mind we'll also need new songs for our new story goals and new types of levels, so it's good to be on the look out for this, too. Thanks again for everything everyone does! -Chris (datahead)

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Secret Chronicles Music...

by Chris Jacobsen

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)...

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Fwd: dying music

by silen sir

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: silen sir <silensirmusic(a)gmail.com> Date: 2015-01-15 14:45 GMT+01:00 Subject: dying music To: tsc-devel(a)lists.secretchronicles.de hello I am the Silensir, i made the dying music for in your game. chris jacobsen told me to mail to this adres if i was finished. feel free to mail me back if i need to change anything to the track. i hope you like it.

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Links to a couple people's music...

by Chris Jacobsen

Silensir asked about helping. His music can be listened to at:https://soundcloud.com/silensir Brett Cahill (InContrast) is also interested in helping. His music can be listened to at:https://soundcloud.com/in-contrast Both people responded to the posting at: http://gamejolt.com/community/forums/topics/secret-chronicles-urgent-need... Check 'em out! -datahead

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Fw: The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M - Urgent Need for Music...

by Chris Jacobsen

On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:56 AM, Jason <jasondagenet98(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Chris,Thanks for the email. That's a bummer to hear about your composers.Unfortunately, I will not be able to help you out with your project full time as I'm already tied into a project right now.I've really got too work on one project at a time to keep from getting backed up. I learned that the hard way. Best Regards,- Jason — Sent from Mailbox On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Chris Jacobsen <cjj_009(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Jason, I saw your post in which you said you were looking for projects in need of music (http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/composer-available-for-your-game-or-pro...). Our project is known as The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M (abbreviated TSC). We are a fork of a well known open source game, Secret Maryo Chronicles. We changed the name of the game in this release in order to avoid obvious references to Mario. As part of an effort to not be viewed as a Mario clone, we are overhauling Mario style graphics and music. Unfortunately, we still have a number of Mario remixes in our music collection and do not yet have suitable replacements. Our musicians are currently unavailable for composing. This has been delaying our planned release, since we really need the first release under the new name to be free of major Mario references. If you are able to compose new music (or have music you have already composed), it would greatly help us. These are the songs we are needing replaced: - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario World land level music - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario World general map music - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario World Vanilla Dome music - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario 64 Bob-Omb Battlefield music (this is also our default music for new levels right now) - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario Bros. Invincibility music - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario World player dying music We will of course take additional music as long as it is something we can use.If you decide to submit music, please submit it at our forum at: http://forum.secretchronicles.de/forums. This way there is no doubt we have permission to use it. If you have any questions, let us know. -Chris Jacobsen (datahead)

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Mario Songs that Need To Be Replaced...

by Chris Jacobsen

Arik, This is the consolidated list of Mario-ish songs that we need to replace in Secret Chronicles. We've been waiting on release 2.0 in order to find suitable replacements for these because Mario music is a major problem for our goals: - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario World land level music - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario World general map music - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario World Vanilla Dome music - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario 64 Bob-Omb Battlefield music (this is also our default music for new levels right now) - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario Bros. Invincibility music - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Secretchronicles/TSC/release-2.0.0/tsc/... - Super Mario World player dying music If you are able to create replacements for any, it would be greatly appreciated. I also had started making requests on different game dev sites to find some people to help with this. If you're available to help, though, we'll be glad to start committing some new music. -Chris (datahead)

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Releasing Beta 7

by automailer＠forum.secretchronicles.de

Post via forum by Quintus <quintus(a)quintilianus.eu>: Hi everyone, @datahead has pointed out to me that especially Windows users will profit from one or two additional beta versions before the final release. While I do find we should release the final version as soon as possible, the whole music topic has turned out to be much more of a blocker than expected. So I suggest to release beta 7 immediately, and release beta 8 after we have finished the music replacements. Does this sound reasonable or does someone think we should do it another way? Valete, Quintus -- Sent by Chessboard.

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