GuitarHero/RockBand fans... side project anyone?

[Manu]

Well, I have a playable game, more or less. Though totally lacking a
front-end & UI.
Anyone who expressed enthusiasm at the start of this thread is welcome to
come and join conversation on the mailing list I set up:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/feedback-dev

I'm working on the linux build environment right now, I know that's a
barrier to entry for many here. But I'd love to get other peoples input
now, and maybe some help getting linux working properly; there's a few
details that need to straightening out. I should probably correct any path
issues and other conventions while at it.


On 9 January 2014 09:54, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 January 2014 04:26, deadalnix <deadalnix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mandatory bikeshedding : the name is ungooglable. I do think that
>> this is a problem.
>>
>
> Make some suggestions?
> I'm not really stressed, although this name is a brand that resonates with
> the GH/RB enthusiast community since back in the GH1/2 days.
> People know it, and I see no real reason to abandon it.
> People don't google the name of something they don't know exists... and
> anyone who does know it exists can easily write 'game' after the search
> term.
>
>
> Also, can you give a brief overview of the architecture you have
>> in mind, and what are the things that can be worked on in the
>> current state of affairs ?
>>
>
> Well, in the interest of producing a project that's at least familiar to
> the gamedev community at large, and therefore useful as a reference or an
> inspiration for other gamedevs to consider using D in their projects, I
> tend to think taking a typical (although D flavoured?) OO approach makes
> sense. Non-D coders should feel more-or-less immediately comfortable.
> But a critically important part of this process, at least for me, and the
> main reason I put it to the community here for contribution, is because I'd
> like to explore gamedev from a D-centric perspective.
> I have decades of habitual baggage from C/C++, so I need other people to
> keep me in check, and offer suggestions that I might have dismissed or
> overlooked... or rather, demonstrate via their contributions to the project
> ;)
>
> So it's a balance, I don't want to get too experimental with D paradigms,
> it should remain practical, and it's important that it appears realistic to
> non-D gamedevs as a point of reference.
>
> There are lots of parts that can be developed in isolation. For instance,
> to do vocal or 'pro-guitar' modes, a DSP which can parse an audio stream
> into a midi sequence with extremely low latency is required... this would
> be a very interesting challenge for anyone interested in signal analysis (I
> can wing it, but I'm not an expert by any measure).
>
> Other abstract elements like a UI system... I don't know of any UI libs
> for D which support custom rendering backends.
> This UI will be a little special, since it would require the concept of
> having multiple points of 'focus' where many players can interact with the
> UI simultaneously while choosing their play options and stuff.
>
> I also think being able to theme/script the UI is important, so expressing
> layout with a user-friendly XML, and integrating something like Lua for
> sequencing the flow of menu's would make the game user-theme-able. That's
> proven to be very successful from my StepMania days. The modder community
> really gets involved in theming things, and that's where the best
> art/design comes from (there's rarely good artists or visual designers
> hanging out on Github!).
> If you want the game to look really good without any paid artists, then
> powerful user-theming support is a must! :)
>
> And there's heaps more stuff too.
> Profile management (Oauth? Google/FaceBook? Open Feint? Platform-centric
> profile managers?), a web-service that offers a downloadable song database
> which users can browse in-game, reverse engineering to parse data from the
> existing games (I have some existing code to this end)... can all be
> started in relative isolation for the time being.
>
> I started populating the issue tracker as I think of stuff, you're welcome
> to add things too.
>
> I'd like to hear about the sorts of things people are interested in
> working on. With that, it might be easier to create some sort of plan of
> attack based in the skills/interests available.
> I can fill in any gaps, but I only have so much spare time myself :)
>
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