Music / Ambience

[Breakfast Buddy]

Hello, I am a huge fan of the game and a music composer. I have noticed a lack or music or ambience, and although I'm sure a ton of people play thier own favorite tunes, I feel like Starmade could have some pretty need tracks included with it. Being in the music industry, I have worked with a few games and have seen how much a difference a "brand" of music can help establish a game's style. I am not requesting to create music for this lovely game, but I would like to see some fitting music someday.



If you would like to check out things I've made, check out my soundcloud at

http://soundcloud.com/breakfastbuddy



thanks!

 

[schema]

This sounds pretty awesome. You have a lot of talent!

I don\'t know yet what style of music I\'ll choose for the game if any. It will be most likely very ambient with only very small notes of actual musik. But I don\'t know yet.



cheers,

- schema

 

[Ambedrake]

It would be kind of cools if you could add an array of music, but then allow for the effective music in a sector to be controlled by a player station using a block of some kind.

In example if a faction has a planet or station they can add a block on it so that they can have a calm abiance most times but before a fight they could turn the area music into something more blood pumping like a drumming or somethin =P

 

[Breakfast Buddy]

It could just be as simple as if there are multiple enemy ships in a sector, it could play more tense music. Also, planets could have different music depending on what they are.

 

[MrFURB]

Yeah, I\'m looking through your stuff right now. Very neat stuff, reminds me of countless older games I used to play, Tribes 2, Pokemon, Eve Online, Tabula Rasa. Good memories.

 

[Breakfast Buddy]

thanks for the positive feedback, I work web time doing web-design and this is a new hobby of mine (along with playing Star-Made, haha). I\'m going to try to make a track that fits with just flying around in this game, I\'ll post it here. A lot of inspiration coming my way! And I haven\'t gotten the chance to try a slower / more ambient song in awhile.

Even some neat brassy/regal music would be neat if the game could detect a very large ship in the sector

 

[Calbiri]

reminds me of time spent exploring the woods in Zelda, Love that nostalgic feeling, THanks!

 

[reginasaurusREX]

I always liked the original Pokemon game music. It has a lot of classic influance, namely Mozart. Sometimes I question whether it\'s a Pokemon song or Mozart when listening to it! haha



But ingame music is a cool idea. Ambience, I don\'t know. Noise in space?

 

[Breakfast Buddy]

The music could \"grow\" with your ship or fleet, like this; In a certain area it could calculate the music based on two things: Sizes of ships, and number of ships. Both of these factors will add certain elements to the track. More ships means more subdivisions in the track, as in, 1 beat per measure for really peaceful and only a few ships, or frantic 16-32 beats per measure for a sector with tons of ships. The mass of ships will add more commanding instruments; trombones, trumpets, louder drums.



So if you have a bunch of tiny ships in a sector; the music is soft but frantic. One big ship, and its slow and commanding. Lots of lorge ships... well, think of an action sonundtrack or something like inception. I could put together a simple track to show this.

 

[Hullaboo]

You make some really awesome music BreakfastBuddy.

 

[Breakfast Buddy]

So I decided the only way I could get the feeling of the music was to play the game for a few hours then immediatly create a track. About 20 minutes of just playing around and I feel it\'s a good start, although it would need to be cleaned up a ton. Later in the song, I incorporated a track addition that only only start if there were other entities in your sector, like one or two ships.



http://soundcloud.com/breakfastbuddy/starmade-test