A Song with a Catchy Chorus and a Solo

by mrwonko
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.17
Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.25
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.50
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.50
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.50
I mostly just wanted to get into composing and learn about music theory. This isn't so much a game as a music player that only has a "start" button you have to run into.

Known Issues


* You must start the game using start.bat or it will hang! (If that happens, press Alt+F4.)
* To exit, press Alt+F4. Pressing Escape causes the game to hang!
* There is no player model.
* The cursor is a grey square.
* There is some text without a font at the top of the screen. I don't know what it says, either. Ignore it.

About


This is really just a custom map for Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, but I tried to quickly make it work standalone, which is where all the issues come from. If you have Jedi Academy, you can put the mrw_ld47.pk3 into your base folder and start the map by typing `map mrw_ld47` into the console in single player.

The mrw_ld47.pk3 is just a zip file, you can unpack it to listen to the music without playing the game.

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Comments2

Flaterectomy
Flaterectomy6 Oct 2020, 16:25
Being aware of the plan you entered this jam with, I had a big smile on my face throughout the song. :smile: You implemented the tried-and-tested 'Intro > Verse 1 > Chorus > Verse 2 > Chorus > Bridge > Chorus' structure successfully.

Critiquing the song itself, the things that most stand out to me (outside of whether the singing was in tune :smile:):
* The song has the same C/G/A/F bass loop all throughout. Variety from verse to chorus would have made it more dynamic. (This critique also applies to the drums remaining the same throughout.)
* The verse melody seems to simply be following the bass notes. There are a few sections where you waver to other notes, I think, but generally it's the same note. The chorus vocal melody is a decent hook, but the verse not so much.
* There are no chords. With these bass notes you have the classic I V vi IV chord structure in C major ready for the taking.
* Props for the solo, I'm not even gonna critique that.

Down with capitalism. :fist:
Skleembof
Skleembof6 Oct 2020, 17:40
This is my ringtone now

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