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[raw] LD20LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This! 01. May 2011 路 06:20 UTC · 2 days after compo start by Jacob · 3

Just randomly generated music by playing around in Wolfram Tones (http://tones.wolfram.com/) until I got something suitable.

Fed the generated midi through GXSCC (http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/8700/P/GsorigE.htm) to export a wave with a more retro feel instead of ear shattering 1995 midi.

Used Audacity to encode .wav into a .ogg.

The Result:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2797357/music_slow.ogg

Wow! easy random filler music!

Now to hook up some SDL_mixer or some such so it can be heard in-game.

Comments

ahmeni
01. May 2011 路 06:28 UTC
Wow, this is actually pretty amazing.
01. May 2011 路 07:02 UTC
Very cool indeed. Having a look at this. This will likely sound better than anything I could do.

Though if I have time I might still try to make something myself.
01. May 2011 路 08:41 UTC
wow, I’m using similar approach (yay for randomly generated midis 馃槈 ), but your end result sounds much much better
jfroco
01. May 2011 路 15:03 UTC
GXSCC rules! I compose a “traditional” MIDI and then use GXSCC to make it old school :)
SpaceManiac
01. May 2011 路 17:13 UTC
Probably is cheating :/
02. May 2011 路 03:49 UTC
@SpaceManiac

As far as LD goes it seems 100% fine. Rules don’t seem to exclude anything like this (There will be a handful of wolfram tones entries this time around, there were probably a handful before too!)

As far as the legal disclaimer goes, by my reading the legal disclaimer excludes the site and the content of it from commercial use. 1) this isnt the site, or the content– it is a midi file generated using the tool provided on the site. 2) this is totally non commercial, heck its even open (source code and all).