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I'm working on a soundtrack for my WIP, but it's basically just a YouTube playlist. Although there will be a couple tracks I did myself, none of it (so far) is actually written for the game.

dammit! im doing something similar!

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I don't think it's a bad thing. Wasn't there a big drive for IF cover art a few years back? I think soundtracks are just the next inevitable thing.

Although there are enough musicians in IF that the possibility for original music is quite distinct.

true dat y0. mine's original stuff. not by me, but by a friend. can mp3's be released with a game? havent released on yet. i dont wanna imbed the songs in the work, i feel IF should be soundless, and the player can choose to have sound/music if desired.

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The newest revision of the Glk spec includes the ability to pause and restart sound channels. I plan to release a skinnable music player for I7 Glulx that will allow you to include your soundtrack in the game file itself, but with a little player that the user can control.

(This is primarily intended for desktop delivery--you can already include a soundtrack alongside the web interpreter version of your game via standard web technologies.)

--Erik

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very nice!

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I like this "multimedia as a feelie" approach. Music and/or images and/or movies are right there if player feels like enjoying them but are not intrusive into the game experience itself and don't pretend to be neither essential nor a requirement for inmmersion. Nice!

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I've seen that word all over.
What the heck is a feelie?

Is it like a "solve" when the player gets too frustrated, or a "reveal" when the player is stuck on a puzzle?

Out-of-game extras, such as a printed (or PDF) map, a physical letter or something else that's meant to complement the game.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feelie

Infocom was the company that came up with the name and the idea for "feelies," I think. Here's the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for example:

http://www.infocom-if.org/games/hhgttg/hhgttg.html

In case the caption is too small to read:


Pocket fluff was a major plot element in the game, and I always thought it was really funny that they provided some in the package.

Another Infocom Game, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, included a scratch n' sniff card, which the game would instruct you to sample at appropriate times. Many Infocom games had critical pieces of information in the feelies as a means of copy protection.

An article about the origin of Infocom's feelies:

http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/i ... eting.html