A Song with a Catchy Chorus and a Solo by mrwonko
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.
| Youtube | https://github.com/mrwonko/OpenJK/tree/ld47 |
| Youtube | http://mrwonko.de/files/unlisted/ld47.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/a-song-with-a-catchy-chorus-and-a-solo |
Ratings
| Given | 2🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
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.
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