Spoiler: Box art Dead Cells is a roguelike-metroidvania game developed and published by French indie studio Motion Twin. It features quick, deceptively simple combat, difficult but fair gameplay, very satisfying progression, and goregous sprite work. It's available on all current platforms. I've sunk over ten hours into this game in the two days I've had it, and I'm probably gonna play a few more when I'm done writing this. It's insanely fun and keeps throwing more difficult but gratifying challenges at you every step of the way. I just wanted to know if anyone else here was grinding through this beast (and to bring it to the attention of people who haven't heard of it).
Spoiler Always on a Death Cab kick.
I can't get past the first stage. Spoiler
A'ight, you savages, we're gonna make Shakespeare look like Smash Mouth. Here's how we do this -- it's easy af, just calm down, jesus christ. You write two lines: one that ends with something that rhymes with the previous post's last line, and one that ends in whatever you want. Maybe try to make the meter match, but fúck it, this is America, it's 2017, you can do whatever you want, you degenerate. The basic idea is to synthesize a poem with an AA-BB-CC-etc. rhyme scheme. The tone is whatever you want it to be; go to town. Since I'm starting this beautiful piece of garbage off, imma just write one line. Roses are red, just like my hands
I should probably get on a heart monitor now, 'cause if it gets Melee HD I'll probably die.
The idea of this thread is to bring the musicians of the site together to collaborate casually (or hardcore, whatever you wanna do) on a song. It'll work like the graphics worm: someone will start by posting an audio sample of something they wrote (ideally 30 seconds or longer so that there's something substantial to work with), then the next person will download the sample and lay down another layer of sound over it. Then that person uploads that new audio, and the cycle continues with people adding layers and layers onto the audio until it sounds complete. General Guidelines The easiest way to get a full-fledged song going would probably be to start with a short clip, get a few people contributing to it, then expand on it if you think that the initial short collab sounds good. But that's just one man's opinion. If you're uploading the first audio sample of a collab, post the key, time signature, and tempo along with a link to the sample (clyp.it is pretty solid for this). You should also give it a unique name in order to distinguish it from any other collabs in the thread. I'd highly recommend putting in headphones and listening to a metronome at the appropriate BPM while recording; even if your rhyhm and timing are naturally great, it couldn't hurt. Search "metronome" on Google to use one right in your browser. As long as the recording isn't full of static, it should be fine; that being said, please try to make your recordings as high-quality as possible. Save the individual tracks you record for the collab; if adjustments need to be made to your track of the collab (volume, timing, etc.) they can be made easily without necessarily having to rerecord. Constructive critique is encouraged, just don't be a butthole about it. If you wanna be super helpful, include in your first post a list of the instruments (including vocals, obvi) and audio software you're proficient with and capable of recording. I'll keep a master list of this going in the OP. If there's a collab actively being worked on that you're not interested in participating in, you can go ahead and start your own. Recording Your Samples/Adding Onto Collabs There are a number of ways to record and add onto audio tracks, but the best free option (in my opinion) is Audacity. You can download this software (again, for free) here. In order to export recorded tracks as MP3s, you need to download the file lame_enc.dll. You can download it here. Put it in a location where you'll remember it, because Audacity will ask you to locate it the first time you try to export an MP3. If you aren't familiar with Audacity, here's a pretty solid beginner tutorial. If you don't feel like watching all of that, here are the basic steps to contributing to collabs: (Skip to step 2 if you're starting a new collab.) 1. Open the latest iteration of the collab you're working on in Audacity and mute the track. 2. Find the picture of a microphone underneath the play/pause/stop/record buttons. Click on the dropdown menu to the right of it and make sure that the recording device is set to whatever microphone you're trying to use. 3. Hit the record button and start jamming. (Skip to step 7 if you're starting a new collab.) 4. With the in-progress collab track still muted, export the MP3 of your recorded track (File -> Export Audio...). 5. Unmute the in-progress collab track so that you can hear it along with your newly recorded audio. Allign your track with the in-progress collab track so that the measures line up properly. You can do this by selecting and deleting silence from the beginnings of the tracks, or by adding silence to the beginnings of the tracks (Generate -> Silence). 6. Adjust the volume of your track so that it's appropriately loud relative to the rest of the collab (Effect -> Amplify). After this step, your new track should sound blended in with the rest of the collab. 7. Export the audio as an MP3 (File -> Export Audio... -- make sure all tracks are unmuted). 8. Upload the MP3 to a file-sharing website (like I said earlier, I'm fond of clyp.it) and post it in this thread as a response to the last person who contributed to the collab. On that note (hah, I'm goddamn hilarious), let's jam. Participant Master List Advent - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar jafar - Acoustic guitar Laplace - Electric guitar, bass, vocals . : tale : . - Vocals, viola Marushi - Vocals
Yo kids, do any of you play any instruments? Are any of you at least decent with music-making software (e.g. Frooty Loops)? Is there even a single person out there who can sing? If you answered yes to any of those, keep reading. I've been wanting to try something out on here for a while. Stop me if this is already being done. My idea is to do something like the graphics worm but with music. For example, I'd record and upload a bass line, then someone would take it and lay down a guitar solo or a drumbeat or some vocals or whatever over it. Then they'd upload a recording of that and someone would add onto it, and it would develop into something pretty nice sounding (or a complete mess). Would anyone have any interest in this kinda thing?
Are flies called flies because they fly, or is flying called flying because flies fly?
In all seriousness though, here's my first track demo. I recorded this with my laptop's microphone and edited it with the basic tools in Audacity, so this is obviously more than a little rough around the edges. I also live in a dorm with incredibly thin walls, so the vocal track is kinda low at points because I didn't want to disturb my roommates with my sick flow. I'd be interested in hearing people's thoughts on the content itself. The track is noticeably more clear if you listen to it with headphones. The song isn't serious or deep at all; my buddy told me I should write a song about the Food Network yesterday, so I went along with it. I'm also gonna slip this in here for no particular reason. Rock and roll?
These guys are a prog rock band from New Jersey. They're very, very talented and have great stage presence. Plus the vocalist has some real slick dance moves. If you're at all into progressive rock and haven't checked these guys out, you're missing out. These songs are a good place to start:
Spoiler: Why not? CnC plz
Title says it all. Lay it on me, you filthy casuals. (I know, intelligent discussion in the Spam Zone is for losers; pls no bully.)
This is something I've wanted to do for a while now. At this point I'm just trying to figure out who would be interested. No real specifics yet. I figure if we can get at least 8 people we'd have a quality tournament. So yeah, who would be down for this?
Mods pls dont lock this is 4 science
Spoiler I was just looking for a doing-it-wrong professional.
It's the truth. Oh yeah, here are some sigs, too. v1 Spoiler v1 (w/ borders) Spoiler v2 Spoiler v2 (w/ borders) Spoiler CnC?
Mellow or giddy, hyped up or sh!tty, share 'em all here. (Damn, rhyming's witty.)
Who wants to get all up in that body bag?
