So, recently I've been doing cool stuff on a flash game called Punk-o-Matic. I'd link you to it but it contains swearing and stuff, so I'll describe it: It's a game in which you can use a set of riffs, basslines and drum beats to compose your own Punk, Rock or Metal songs, and then play them in Guitar Hero-esque concerts. So I thought, why not do something similar on Scratch. At least being able to compose simple songs would be good since 1.4 is way too laggy for a real Guitar Hero clone with charts and all.
But to do that I need to find people who can play instruments or at least compose some riffs. If you play electric guitar, bass, drums or keyboard (dunno about other instruments, but I think acoustic guitar or piano would be fine.), have a decent mic and can compose your own stuff in a certain scale (we'll probably go with C major/A minor, it's the most simple one) tell me. If you can do some art or programming (the latter assuming you have basic music knowledge) it'd be nice too.
TL;DR: Got ideas for a cool musicmaking game, join if you want to help with art, programming, or recording your instrument.
People participating so far:
-technoguyx: Programming, ideas.
-SeptimusHeap: Programming.
-gbear605: A bit of programming I think, some ideas.
Instrumentalists:
-technoguyx: Guitar/Bass player who can also compose Drum/Synth parts in FL Studio.
-gbear605, bananaman114, SeptimusHeap, yoshiman56, Chatter: Piano/keyboard players.
-SlayerEW: Guitarist.
-pokedirector's cousin: Not confirmed yet.
Ideas:
-Piano and synth riffs (DONE)
-Single notes for piano and maybe other instruments (gbear405) (DONE)
-Playing your songs in a Guitar Hero fashion (IN THE WORKS, SeptimusHeap may look into it)
-Multiple pages for your songs
-Saving your songs
-A simple story mode
-More mouse-friendly (suggested by Combinebobnt, referring to the fact that keys are used to change stuff in notes)
Version History:
-v0.1 Alpha: First version
-gbear's remix of v0.1: Added single note blocks
-v0.2 Alpha: Improved single note blocks, added add/remove blocks function, block positions' are saved to a list (but no load/save yet), added keyboard blocks and recorded some guitar riffs.
Latest build: v0.2 Alpha (as of Dec 29, 2010)
Last edited by technoguyx (2011-01-05 10:34:02)
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doesn't garage band do that?
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uberdeluxe wrote:
doesn't garage band do that?
Yeah, Punk-o-Matic is kinda like that actually.
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I soon might get my electric piano hooked up to the computer. If I do I will help with that.
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gbear605 wrote:
I soon might get my electric piano hooked up to the computer. If I do I will help with that.
Cool, I'm looking forward to your ideas
Here's a very early alpha, to get you guys an idea of what we'll do: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/technoguyx/1472948
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Can I help? I could get my cousin to play a little for it. He's in a pretty cool band.

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oh, hi poke
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technoguyx wrote:
So, recently I've been doing cool stuff on a flash game called Punk-o-Matic. I'd link you to it but it contains swearing and stuff, so I'll describe it: It's a game in which you can use a set of riffs, basslines and drum beats to compose your own Punk, Rock or Metal songs, and then play them in Guitar Hero-esque concerts. So I thought, why not do something similar on Scratch. At least being able to compose simple songs would be good since 1.4 is way too laggy for a real Guitar Hero clone with charts and all.
But to do that I need to find people who can play instruments or at least compose some riffs. If you play electric guitar, bass, drums or keyboard (dunno about other instruments, but I think acoustic guitar or piano would be fine.), have a decent mic and can compose your own stuff in a certain scale (we'll probably go with C major/A minor, it's the most simple one) tell me. If you can do some art or programming (the latter assuming you have basic music knowledge) it'd be nice too.
TL;DR: Got ideas for a cool musicmaking game, join if you want to help with art, programming, or recording your instrument.
People participating so far:
-technoguyx: Some programming, electric guitar and soon bass player (need mic though, maybe getting one for xmas).
I can do Piano/keyboard...
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bananaman114 wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
So, recently I've been doing cool stuff on a flash game called Punk-o-Matic. I'd link you to it but it contains swearing and stuff, so I'll describe it: It's a game in which you can use a set of riffs, basslines and drum beats to compose your own Punk, Rock or Metal songs, and then play them in Guitar Hero-esque concerts. So I thought, why not do something similar on Scratch. At least being able to compose simple songs would be good since 1.4 is way too laggy for a real Guitar Hero clone with charts and all.
But to do that I need to find people who can play instruments or at least compose some riffs. If you play electric guitar, bass, drums or keyboard (dunno about other instruments, but I think acoustic guitar or piano would be fine.), have a decent mic and can compose your own stuff in a certain scale (we'll probably go with C major/A minor, it's the most simple one) tell me. If you can do some art or programming (the latter assuming you have basic music knowledge) it'd be nice too.
TL;DR: Got ideas for a cool musicmaking game, join if you want to help with art, programming, or recording your instrument.
People participating so far:
-technoguyx: Some programming, electric guitar and soon bass player (need mic though, maybe getting one for xmas).I can do Piano/keyboard...
You already can do Keyboard/piano/guitar/tons of intsruments (individual notes) using scratch you know.
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pokedirector wrote:
Can I help? I could get my cousin to play a little for it. He's in a pretty cool band.
Of course, what does he play? Drums could be good, we have none now (I'm buying a bass soon)
bananaman114 wrote:
I can do Piano/keyboard...
Good, it'd be great if you could come up with some synth stuff
EDIT: I managed to record some stuff by plugging my guitar directly to my comp. and using a VST amp
But I'll wait 'till we have some more sound material and 'till I bother to implement multiple "pages" before uploading a new build.
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I uploaded a new version.
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I can do piano, if you want. ahow many BPM, I have a metronome.
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SeptimusHeap wrote:
I can do piano, if you want. ahow many BPM, I have a metronome.
Lol, nobody plays something other than piano now? D: Recordings in 120 or 150 BPM (right now we have only 150, but I think some slower stuff would be good) are fine.
EDIT: Added some ideas to the main post, post yours too to add them.
Last edited by technoguyx (2010-12-12 13:53:17)
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technoguyx wrote:
SeptimusHeap wrote:
I can do piano, if you want. ahow many BPM, I have a metronome.
Lol, nobody plays something other than piano now? D: Recordings in 120 or 150 BPM (right now we have only 150, but I think some slower stuff would be good) are fine.
EDIT: Added some ideas to the main post, post yours too to add them.![]()
Well, I play recorder! XD
Uh. Yeah. Sorry I don't play anything else.
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SeptimusHeap wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
SeptimusHeap wrote:
I can do piano, if you want. ahow many BPM, I have a metronome.
Lol, nobody plays something other than piano now? D: Recordings in 120 or 150 BPM (right now we have only 150, but I think some slower stuff would be good) are fine.
EDIT: Added some ideas to the main post, post yours too to add them.![]()
Well, I play recorder! XD
Uh. Yeah. Sorry I don't play anything else.
Heh, just imagine rock played with a recorder
Well, if you come up with a guitar riff on your piano you may record it too, I could record it on my guitar.
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technoguyx wrote:
SeptimusHeap wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
Lol, nobody plays something other than piano now? D: Recordings in 120 or 150 BPM (right now we have only 150, but I think some slower stuff would be good) are fine.
EDIT: Added some ideas to the main post, post yours too to add them.![]()
Well, I play recorder! XD
Uh. Yeah. Sorry I don't play anything else.Heh, just imagine rock played with a recorder
![]()
Well, if you come up with a guitar riff on your piano you may record it too, I could record it on my guitar.![]()
Kay. Imma go work on the building engine, maybe come up with a gutar-heroey thing.
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gbear605 wrote:
bananaman114 wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
So, recently I've been doing cool stuff on a flash game called Punk-o-Matic. I'd link you to it but it contains swearing and stuff, so I'll describe it: It's a game in which you can use a set of riffs, basslines and drum beats to compose your own Punk, Rock or Metal songs, and then play them in Guitar Hero-esque concerts. So I thought, why not do something similar on Scratch. At least being able to compose simple songs would be good since 1.4 is way too laggy for a real Guitar Hero clone with charts and all.
But to do that I need to find people who can play instruments or at least compose some riffs. If you play electric guitar, bass, drums or keyboard (dunno about other instruments, but I think acoustic guitar or piano would be fine.), have a decent mic and can compose your own stuff in a certain scale (we'll probably go with C major/A minor, it's the most simple one) tell me. If you can do some art or programming (the latter assuming you have basic music knowledge) it'd be nice too.
TL;DR: Got ideas for a cool musicmaking game, join if you want to help with art, programming, or recording your instrument.
People participating so far:
-technoguyx: Some programming, electric guitar and soon bass player (need mic though, maybe getting one for xmas).I can do Piano/keyboard...
You already can do Keyboard/piano/guitar/tons of intsruments (individual notes) using scratch you know.
I know, but I suck so badly at that.. DX
I'm only good when I have an actual instrumant..
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SeptimusHeap wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
SeptimusHeap wrote:
Well, I play recorder! XD
Uh. Yeah. Sorry I don't play anything else.Heh, just imagine rock played with a recorder
![]()
Well, if you come up with a guitar riff on your piano you may record it too, I could record it on my guitar.![]()
Kay. Imma go work on the building engine, maybe come up with a gutar-heroey thing.
Work on the Guitar Heroish engine if you can. I'm working a little in the engine and if we both work on the same thing we'll end up with 2 different versions and it'll be messy.
If you manage to implement note charts (something not done so far) you're my new hero
But if it creates too much lag random notes will be fine, maybe making it more realistic by changing the speed and complexity of the notes.
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technoguyx wrote:
SeptimusHeap wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
Heh, just imagine rock played with a recorder![]()
Well, if you come up with a guitar riff on your piano you may record it too, I could record it on my guitar.![]()
Kay. Imma go work on the building engine, maybe come up with a gutar-heroey thing.
Work on the Guitar Heroish engine if you can. I'm working a little in the engine and if we both work on the same thing we'll end up with 2 different versions and it'll be messy.
If you manage to implement note charts (something not done so far) you're my new hero
But if it creates too much lag random notes will be fine, maybe making it more realistic by changing the speed and complexity of the notes.
Hmm. Maybe make one color form, say drums, so for a drums part, it would use, say, orange notes.
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SeptimusHeap wrote:
Hmm. Maybe make one color form, say drums, so for a drums part, it would use, say, orange notes.
What do you mean?
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technoguyx wrote:
SeptimusHeap wrote:
Hmm. Maybe make one color form, say drums, so for a drums part, it would use, say, orange notes.
What do you mean?
Think of this:
O < Drums end O < Drums note
O < Guitar end O < Guitar note
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SeptimusHeap wrote:
technoguyx wrote:
SeptimusHeap wrote:
Hmm. Maybe make one color form, say drums, so for a drums part, it would use, say, orange notes.
What do you mean?
Think of this:
O < Drums end O < Drums note
O < Guitar end O < Guitar note
Ahhh I get it, you play all instruments at once. I like the idea, feel free to try it
It might get a little repetitive though, with only one note for each instrument.
EDIT: Try to use the same colors in the alpha's blocks, blue guitar, red drums, yellow bass and add green for synth.
Last edited by technoguyx (2010-12-15 19:58:32)
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SlayerEW wrote:
i play guitar
and i don't mean stupid guitar hero or rock band
i play REAL guitar
Well that's great, if you have any riff ideas you may record them
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technoguyx wrote:
So, recently I've been doing cool stuff on a flash game called Punk-o-Matic. I'd link you to it but it contains swearing and stuff, so I'll describe it: It's a game in which you can use a set of riffs, basslines and drum beats to compose your own Punk, Rock or Metal songs, and then play them in Guitar Hero-esque concerts. So I thought, why not do something similar on Scratch. At least being able to compose simple songs would be good since 1.4 is way too laggy for a real Guitar Hero clone with charts and all.
But to do that I need to find people who can play instruments or at least compose some riffs. If you play electric guitar, bass, drums or keyboard (dunno about other instruments, but I think acoustic guitar or piano would be fine.), have a decent mic and can compose your own stuff in a certain scale (we'll probably go with C major/A minor, it's the most simple one) tell me. If you can do some art or programming (the latter assuming you have basic music knowledge) it'd be nice too.
TL;DR: Got ideas for a cool musicmaking game, join if you want to help with art, programming, or recording your instrument.
People participating so far:
-technoguyx: Programming, ideas.
-SeptimusHeap: Programming.
-gbear605: A bit of programming I think, some ideas.
Instrumentalists:
-technoguyx: Guitar player, might be getting a bass soon. Can compose synth riffs too.
-gbear605: Piano player.
-pokedirector's cousin: Not confirmed yet.
-bananaman114: Piano/Keyboard player.
-SeptimusHeap: Piano player.
Ideas:
-Piano and synth riffs (IN THE WORKS, already recorded some synth organ riffs for next version)
-Single notes for piano and maybe other instruments (gbear405) (IN THE WORKS, done by gbear but I'm expanding it's functionality for next version)
-Playing your songs in a Guitar Hero fashion (IN THE WORKS, SeptimusHeap may look into it)
-Multiple pages for your songs
-Saving your songs
-A simple story mode
Version History:
-v0.1 Alpha: First version
-gbear's remix of v0.1: Added single note blocks
Latest build: v0.1 Alpha, also gbear's version which has individual piano notes.
I have a keyboard, but I can make it play any of the following instruments;
1. Grand Piano 2. Piano 3. 4 types of electric piano 4. Harpsichord 5. Electric Guitar 6. Distorted Guitar 7. DRUM KIT!!! and plenty more.
Last edited by yoshidude56 (2010-12-20 10:07:39)

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