Ambient music ( MainMenu , Ingame etc...)

[lansney]

Hello everybody ,
I think adding ambient background music could be very cool to immersion of the game and more epic ness !
I found a lot of cool song , but lot of these were copyrighted ...
However I found a website with royalty free music , which have very good song In my opinion to be used in the game ( particularly Rain on Lake Erie ), The website is called : http://www.purple-planet.com/

Voila !
What do you think about this ?

[leeminer]

Good question, I've been thinking about this myself. I hope there is a way.

[twoelk]

you are aware of the Immersive Sounds [ambience] mod?

[Krock]

I've got a gigabyte of music and an UKW radio - So I don't need any ingame music :)

[leeminer]

Cant wait to try the immersive sounds mod... Remember halflife..? Graphics were not the best but I think the sounds made half the game...

[lansney]

No no you dont understand .... The idea is to have this by default , such as a song which represent minetest spririt if you want...

[Evergreen]

I don't think music should be played by default. If there is main menu music, it should be included with the current subgame.

[lansney]

Yay that Is the idea to make the default game more alive , sound ambient is almost 30 % of a game

[leeminer]

Yay that Is the idea to make the default game more alive , sound ambient is almost 30 % of a game

Assuming people like the music. If they don't then they may hate the game. I think a compromise would be music for certain events and then have it dissipate. For example, when encountering a monster, "encounter" music could play until you kill the monster or are away from it.

Or danger music when low on health to drive up the tension...

[lansney]

Or simply possibility to dissable music via option :)

Seriously why people loved minecraft ? It was particularly because of the beautiful song !
( of course after , you can remove the music from being played by a simple option configuration)
After , if you think this thing should be done as a mod like immersion , you have the truth , but , The problem is the server load the song too , so it was really inefficient ,

The solution could be something in lua code that you said certain code must be only client sided for example ... It will take advantage of a bunch of mod I think...