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I know you said no other members, but I need a capable collab that I'm not dragging the weight of. Sorry for asking. I'm very good at programming and can draw capably.

Yoshiboy, where are you?

I have an idea for how to turn our game/animation idea into a music project. Maybe you can help improve the storyline. Someone is playing a song (animation at the beginning. We can use a song I wrote!) when suddenly he loses all his music sheets. It's your job to recover them. You have to get through different levels, and always, the next part of the music is at the end. On the higher levels, there could be fake endings too, so this tests how well you remember the song: is this the right set of notes or not? (You'd get to listen to the notes of course.) After each, you get the next mission preview; what happened to the music sheet. What do you think?

scimonster wrote:

I have an idea for how to turn our game/animation idea into a music project. Maybe you can help improve the storyline. Someone is playing a song (animation at the beginning. We can use a song I wrote!) when suddenly he loses all his music sheets. It's your job to recover them. You have to get through different levels, and always, the next part of the music is at the end. On the higher levels, there could be fake endings too, so this tests how well you remember the song: is this the right set of notes or not? (You'd get to listen to the notes of course.) After each, you get the next mission preview; what happened to the music sheet. What do you think?

That's a great Idea, except the part where you have the fake endings. How about he was practicing for a play in which he was the lead piano player and has to find them as fast as possible?

BTW- Are we going to have ourselves in it?

scimonster wrote:

Good addition to the story line. We don't have to include the fake endings, but I thought it would make it more challenging.
I don't think we'll use ourselves in the game; just names/icons in the credits/title screen.

About letting someone else in, we could probably do with an artist in the group. I suppose we could let NBM in...

Great. So, my first Idea was that it would start with a guy playing piano, it would have subtitles telling the story while the music plays. He's playing, and playing, and playing, then suddenly the sheets disappear. But I don't know if the menu should be before or after the intro. What do you think?

scimonster wrote:

I think both. XD. The first menu has Play (instructions later) and Credits. After the introduction, you are given instructions for the whole game, and before each level you get level specific instructions.

Ok, what kind of game should it be, like Mario?

Yoshiboy wrote:

scimonster wrote:

I think both. XD. The first menu has Play (instructions later) and Credits. After the introduction, you are given instructions for the whole game, and before each level you get level specific instructions.

Ok, what kind of game should it be, like Mario?

I've never played any Mario games, so I don't know, lol. I was thinking maybe a platformer/scroller?

Yoshiboy wrote:

nickbrickmaster can't join, he found a different one.

OK, I'll try and find another artist and programmer. 

Hi

Yoshiboy wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Hi

Hi, so, you're going to join?

Yeah, he said he would. 
'K Skyline, let me drag up the chat and see what we said we're going to do...

The title screen and menus were going to be a square gradient of [black border, green, blue, orange], going into the center.
It's going to be a platformer/maze game.
Here's the story:
A guy was practicing on his piano for a big play. (You hear the music) Then, a green laser hits the music sheets and they vanish! You need to get the music sheets back. The green laser is from Phillip, the evil dude in Yoshiboy's Chocolate series.
You have a practice level to get to his hideout. His hideout will be a really high tech maze. The music sheets are scattered all over it. Each one takes you to a platformer. You win the sheet at the end of the level.

The music will be something I composed; I'll upload it later.

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Yoshiboy wrote:

Are we going to have credits?

Yeah, forgot to say that. ^^

The title screen should have our icons (we'll put those in at the end), and the buttons Play and Credits.
Instructions come before each level.

jji7skyline wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Yoshiboy wrote:

Are we going to have credits?

Yeah, forgot to say that. ^^

The title screen should have our icons (we'll put those in at the end), and the buttons Play and Credits.
Instructions come before each level.

That's a good idea, using our icons to represent us as well as our usernames 

I think the instructions should be in signs, like when you walk over a sign a speech bubble appears saying what is written on the sign. I also like the Idea of our icons, but I'll have to make me a new one.

Yoshiboy wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Yeah, forgot to say that. ^^

The title screen should have our icons (we'll put those in at the end), and the buttons Play and Credits.
Instructions come before each level.

That's a good idea, using our icons to represent us as well as our usernames 

I think the instructions should be in signs, like when you walk over a sign a speech bubble appears saying what is written on the sign. I also like the Idea of our icons, but I'll have to make me a new one.

Hmm, I figured it would be pretty much obvious what to do, and just in the first level it would tell you. I suppose we could use your signage idea for that though.