On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 10:43:24 UTC, Manu wrote:
So, I'm a massive fan of music games. I'll shamefully admit
that I was
tragically addicted to Dance Dance Revolution about 10 years
ago. Recently,
it's Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
I quite like the band ensemble games, they're good party games,
and great
rhythm practise that's actually applicable to real instrument
skills too.
The problem is though, that Neversoft and Harmonix completely
fucked up the
GH and RB franchises. Licensing problems, fragmented
tracklists. It's
annoying that all the songs you want to play are spread across
literally 10
or so different games, and you need to constantly change disc's
if you want
to play the songs you like.
I've been meaning to kick off a guitar hero clone since GH2
came out. I
started one years ago as a fork of my Guitar Hero song editor
for PS2, and
I added support for drums before GH4 or RB were conceived, but
then when
they announced those games they stole my thunder and it went
into
hibernation.
I'm very keen to resurrect the project (well, start a new one,
with clean
code, in D).
Are there any music game nerds hanging around here who would be
interested
in joining a side project like this? It's a lot more
motivating, and much
more fun to work in a small team.
It's an interesting union of skills; rendering, audio
processing,
super-low-latency synchronisation, mini and communications
processing,
animation, UI and presentation.
I have done all this stuff commercially, so I can act as a sort
of project
lead of people are interested, but haven't tried to write that
sort of
software before.
It also seems like a good excuse to kick off a fairly large
scale and
performance intensive D project, which I like to do from time
to time.
I would be happy to help with the gui side of thing just to get
DOOGLE more inline with what is required from it. Assuming DOOGLE
is ok for it.
It is designed to work on top of games so it is perfect for this
type of thing I'm just worried of its state and being ready.
