GuitarHero/RockBand fans... side project anyone?

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 10:43:24 UTC, Manu wrote:
> So, I'm a massive fan of music games. I'll shamefully admit 
> that I was
> tragically addicted to Dance Dance Revolution about 10 years 
> ago. Recently,
> it's Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
>
> I quite like the band ensemble games, they're good party games, 
> and great
> rhythm practise that's actually applicable to real instrument 
> skills too.
>
> The problem is though, that Neversoft and Harmonix completely 
> fucked up the
> GH and RB franchises. Licensing problems, fragmented 
> tracklists. It's
> annoying that all the songs you want to play are spread across 
> literally 10
> or so different games, and you need to constantly change disc's 
> if you want
> to play the songs you like.
>
> I've been meaning to kick off a guitar hero clone since GH2 
> came out. I
> started one years ago as a fork of my Guitar Hero song editor 
> for PS2, and
> I added support for drums before GH4 or RB were conceived, but 
> then when
> they announced those games they stole my thunder and it went 
> into
> hibernation.
>
> I'm very keen to resurrect the project (well, start a new one, 
> with clean
> code, in D).
> Are there any music game nerds hanging around here who would be 
> interested
> in joining a side project like this? It's a lot more 
> motivating, and much
> more fun to work in a small team.
>
> It's an interesting union of skills; rendering, audio 
> processing,
> super-low-latency synchronisation, mini and communications 
> processing,
> animation, UI and presentation.
>
> I have done all this stuff commercially, so I can act as a sort 
> of project
> lead of people are interested, but haven't tried to write that 
> sort of
> software before.
>
> It also seems like a good excuse to kick off a fairly large 
> scale and
> performance intensive D project, which I like to do from time 
> to time.

I would be happy to help with the gui side of thing just to get 
DOOGLE more inline with what is required from it. Assuming DOOGLE 
is ok for it.
It is designed to work on top of games so it is perfect for this 
type of thing I'm just worried of its state and being ready.