Comments on: GDC: Music, Video Games, and Interactivity – Chat with Boing Boing Video http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/ The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:00:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Sebastien Orban http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/comment-page-1/#comment-863560 Sebastien Orban Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:23:12 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/#comment-863560 Peter : I agree wholeheartly with you – we only see a fraction of what could have been. And that's why it's a failure, it lack this greatness we were waiting ! Why devellop all those procedural tool and not use it ? But now that it was done on this small scale – and that devellopers at last remember things like MUSE, we can hope to get others things like that. The bridge between Unity and Max/MSP is a nice step, and we encounter people trying to bridge environment like Processing with Super Collider, Pd, Max/MSP... I do think you are at the forefront of those evolution. Still, death to spore :p I don't want devellopers thinking that it's the way to do game, musically, gameplay wise, or anything else. Introversion Subversion on the other way is promissing ! Maybe someone should spoke to them about generative sound ? Peter : I agree wholeheartly with you – we only see a fraction of what could have been. And that’s why it’s a failure, it lack this greatness we were waiting ! Why devellop all those procedural tool and not use it ?

But now that it was done on this small scale – and that devellopers at last remember things like MUSE, we can hope to get others things like that. The bridge between Unity and Max/MSP is a nice step, and we encounter people trying to bridge environment like Processing with Super Collider, Pd, Max/MSP… I do think you are at the forefront of those evolution.

Still, death to spore :p I don’t want devellopers thinking that it’s the way to do game, musically, gameplay wise, or anything else.
Introversion Subversion on the other way is promissing ! Maybe someone should spoke to them about generative sound ?

]]> By: Create Digital Music » GDC: Music, Games, Interactivity Pt. II, Plus Embarrassing Dance Footage http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/comment-page-1/#comment-863215 Create Digital Music » GDC: Music, Games, Interactivity Pt. II, Plus Embarrassing Dance Footage Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:32:11 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/#comment-863215 [...] part the first: GDC: Music, Video Games, and Interactivity – Chat with Boing Boing Video GA_googleFillSlot("CDMu_interpost300"); Handmade Music March Noise and Mayhem Recap; [...] [...] part the first: GDC: Music, Video Games, and Interactivity – Chat with Boing Boing Video GA_googleFillSlot(”CDMu_interpost300″); Handmade Music March Noise and Mayhem Recap; [...]

]]> By: phling http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/comment-page-1/#comment-862889 phling Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:33:57 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/#comment-862889 i'd love to see Introversion's Subversion game/engine/whatever-it-will-actually-be being open for sound object generation... could be huge! http://www.introversion.co.uk/subversion/ i’d love to see Introversion’s Subversion game/engine/whatever-it-will-actually-be being open for sound object generation… could be huge!

http://www.introversion.co.uk/subversion/

]]> By: Peter Kirn http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/comment-page-1/#comment-862810 Peter Kirn Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:05:07 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/#comment-862810 Well, I'm certainly not holding up Spore as the pinnacle of game design -- fascinating and ambitious project that it was, we could certainly get into all kinds of potential criticism of the title. But there is a lot going on with the music engine in there. I think what you get in the game is only a fraction of the potential of the musical engine they built. I happen to like the music that results, but my hope is that more could be done with it. Unfortunately, unlike MUSE I don't know that it will get the opportunity to be applied to such a range of musical applications. By the way, MUSE was very powerful. But I don't know that we'd want to go back to that in terms of timbres - I do think we have made forward progress. So, yeah, if we could start to see things like the music engine in Spore applied to a greater range of music, I think that'd be very exciting. Well, I’m certainly not holding up Spore as the pinnacle of game design — fascinating and ambitious project that it was, we could certainly get into all kinds of potential criticism of the title. But there is a lot going on with the music engine in there. I think what you get in the game is only a fraction of the potential of the musical engine they built. I happen to like the music that results, but my hope is that more could be done with it. Unfortunately, unlike MUSE I don’t know that it will get the opportunity to be applied to such a range of musical applications.

By the way, MUSE was very powerful. But I don’t know that we’d want to go back to that in terms of timbres – I do think we have made forward progress. So, yeah, if we could start to see things like the music engine in Spore applied to a greater range of music, I think that’d be very exciting.

]]> By: Sebastien Orban http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/comment-page-1/#comment-862809 Sebastien Orban Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:59:09 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/#comment-862809 Except that Spore is kind of, well, empty. As a game, as a soundtrack, as everything. As a gamer and as a music lover, I'm not amazed at all by this game. An half assed try. The MUSE system from Lucasart produce more interesting result nearly 20 year ago ! Except that Spore is kind of, well, empty. As a game, as a soundtrack, as everything. As a gamer and as a music lover, I’m not amazed at all by this game. An half assed try.
The MUSE system from Lucasart produce more interesting result nearly 20 year ago !

]]> By: Darren Landrum http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/comment-page-1/#comment-862345 Darren Landrum Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:08:03 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/04/09/gdc-music-video-games-and-interactivity-chat-with-boing-boing-video/#comment-862345 It was a lot of fun, and you gave me some new ideas to think about. Let me know if you ever need another plant in the audience. :-) It was a lot of fun, and you gave me some new ideas to think about. Let me know if you ever need another plant in the audience. :-)

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