🎶 Spent my #gamedev time this week refactoring the singing system. Notes can now be held, and notes are reinforced visually by their colour-coded corresponding element. It's fun!
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💓 Mini Sonity tutorial - How I did heartbeat sounds in Sulfur
Fun fact: The 𝐕 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 feeding heartbeat sound I designed uses the same pitch technique 🧛
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL0pPKmeLi8&list=PL8HmiLFR3c5RyFFc_mqQVagE-qrdtMP6z&index=1

Day 45 of making my own indie MMO without engine or team

So, I have been working on the simon says tool I mentioned to learn to play/improvise the piano alone. Had to watch quite a lot of youtube to have a very small understanding of how sound should move.

The objective is not to generate 'good' songs but mostly 'legal' moves that could be part of a song, to simultaneously train some intuition of where each key is, what sound comes from which key and what keys can go after a given key. (Edit to clarify: This doesn't use any AI of sorts, it's just generating something following very basic music theory, I know this could be improved by having the music follow a more constant direction, but the intuition I have behind this is that I'd rather practice myself using a superset of good moves that includes some bad ones, than constrain to a subset of good moves).

Regarding the synth, it is a triangle rn, with no effects, so it is annoying.

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Day 44 of making my own indie MMO without engine or team

So, today I made some progress on integrating the datalog into my language parser, but more importantly I stumbled into Sebastian Lague's video on "Synthesizing Musical Instruments" while eating and that led me to spend the whole day researching the topic.

I think I already mentioned somewhere that I didn't exactly know how I was going to do music when I have essentially zero experience reading music sheets or playing instruments. Sebastian Lague's video felt very inspiring because I had really never considered that synthing something that sounds good enough could be seemingly so feasible.

Have been researching for some hours, I think getting a simple buffer going in CoreAudio and Pipewire, then implementing a couple of of oscilators and tools/effects to shape the note/octave/wave like Sebastian did is more approachable than CPU rasterization, which means I think I may be able to do it. This way I could hook this both to my engine for playback (since I love games that allow players to make their own scores like Archeage or Mabinogi did), and also use my small synth with raylib and some midi library to make a mini-game to train my brain to link note/chords/octaves with my cheap midi controller.

I don't know how dumb this plan is, but learning to sightread, to properly play an instrument, music theory, to use a daw and their filters... Seems like it would be fun, but an overkill for what I need to do, and very, very slow process.
Mostly because I believe that in order to make meaningful progress you need to have a very strong fast feedback telling you what you did wrong, and I'm going to have a hard time getting that any other way.

So, my vision for the learning tool is essentially making a simon says for music. It's a bit more complex than that because I want to ensure that it helps me build some muscle memory and I immediately get significant feedback for my hits/misses similar to when you play a game like Osu, but you can think of it like Simon Says.

Also, regarding pixel art, I've been working a few days making small sprites I plan to use to make a bigger 960x540 image, I don't know when I'll have that ready though.

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