Game News Gearhead getting musical?

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Gearhead

I noticed in the <A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gearhead_dev">development mailing list thingy</a> over at <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/">Yahoo Groups</a> that <b>Joseph Hewitt</b> is considering adding music to <A href="http://www.geocities.com/pyrrho12/programming/gearhead/">Gearhead</a>. Here's what he has to say:
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<blockquote>I'm thinking now about adding music to the SDL version of GearHead (probably as a separate zip archive, so players of the ASCII version can listen in winamp if they really want to). There are a couple of things that are needed before doing this. First, I'll need to decide how the music is going to work.
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I could start a new song with every scene, picking one as appropriate depending on what the PC is doing. Alternatively, I could assign individual songs for individual scenes, with another song for combat. Or, I could just pick a new song from the music directory every time the current song ends.
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I'd like for the system to be completely user-customizable, so that people could insert their own music for use in the game. This kind of disqualifies option #2 above...
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The second thing I'm going to need is, of course, the music itself. I'm hoping to get some volunteers, as I did with the graphics. What kind of music am I looking for? I'd personally like something rock-ish. My favorite anime for music are Cowboy Bebop and FLCL. However, I have to mention, I'll take what I can get.</blockquote>
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Dear lord, no crappy anime music, please.
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[Astromarine]

Did you ever SEE Cowboy Bebop? That thing has one of my favorite soundtracks from all my DVDs. And I have hundreds of them, with very few anime.

 

[Barghest]

I demand that we use more cheesy J-POP in RPGs...!

 

[Astromarine]

there.
is.
NO.
J-pop.
in.
Cowboy.
Bebop.

 

[fnordcircle]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some kicking midi.

 

[Voss]

Yep. Bebop has nothing in common with general anime music. Hell, I've heard people say they watch the show entirely for the music.
FLCL music is pretty decent as well, though its easy to be distracted by the frankly bizzare storyline.

Tsk, tsk, Saint. You could at least try to have some idea what you're commenting on when you insert <generic sarcastic comment>

 

[Sol Invictus]

The music isn't bad at all. It's nu-jazz or something like that - and all of it is in English. It'd fit a space sim more than a game like gearhead, though so I don't think it would fit the game. It's also pretty hard to get a good rock/jazz band to contribute their stuff for free, come to that. It'd be a lot easier (not to mention more in theme with the game) if he went with some techno, ambient or D&B.