I want to make a game that is a song that is a game.
@BreoganHackett the closest i've got to this is making music videos in game engine, not rly thought how to make a song a game or a game a song before...
@jazz I've only started thinking about it the last year or so but I need to figure out how to do it well. Not just a song that follows the flow of a game or a game that follows the flow of a song. Something in the space between those two extremes ideally.
@BreoganHackett @jazz don't remember where but i feel like i've seen this somewhere recently, where the game added different verses to a cutscene or loading screen(?) song based on what happened..
@ludonaut @jazz I mean adaptive audio is a thing and has been for a long time (iirc it was present in lucasarts adventure games like monkey Island) but it's rare that the interaction between the music and the interactive art is the focus of a work.

@BreoganHackett @jazz yeah totally. there must be *something* between Osu Tatakae Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents (performing to an existing song) and idunno, Panoramical (jamming on a very complicated soft synth)

(i might have been thinking of wasteland 3 earlier but there the song is more like a neat window dressing, not really the focus)

have you seen the interactive album xra (of "memory of a broken dimension" fame) made for methlab? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG9ArdlK_gw (i have a copy of the windows build somewhere if you're interested)

XRA // MethLab - Interactive Player & Label Preview

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@ludonaut @jazz oh no I'll have to take a look at that!

@BreoganHackett @jazz oh i almost forgot about the "move to the beat while the level changes on 1/2/3/4" game friends of mine made: https://store.steampowered.com/app/925460/Vectronom/ (check out the incredible set we built for the multiplayer trailer)

still not what you're looking for i think but more mental filler for the design space between those extremes

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Welcome to the psychedelic world of Vectronom: experience waves of color and a pulsing geometric path that changes with the beat! All set to a hypnotic electronic soundtrack. There’s only one thing to do: turn up the volume and go with the flow.