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Author Topic: Music, Jukebox? (people want some control over the music)  (Read 421 times)

eerr

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Music, Jukebox? (people want some control over the music)
« on: March 09, 2023, 02:35:39 pm »

So, it could be fun to do many things with the music in the game.
There is some demand to have control over the music.

-some people want to swap event-specific songs with other songs,
-or stop specific tracks from playing,


My suggestion is to take a look at the runescape jukebox. it's not the most highly featured juke box, but it gets the job done.
1. tracks are unlocked by being in the area where they play.
2. you can automatically play the area's track or play one of the unlocked tracks.
3. you can set it to loop, or not to loop.
4. you can change the volume, including a mute button. pressing the mute button returns the original volume level when unmuting.

Okay well that doesn't solve either of those two problems specifically, but let's continue.
The ability to sub-in songs for the pre-packaged songs. basically just drop in appropriately named music files to over-ride the prepackaged music.

People also want the ability to stop certain tracks from playing.
So, since we don't want to show all the tracks at any given time, i would assume people want an opt-out list.
So the player would decide to stop the track playing in a menu, and say 'this track should never play automatically'


there are a dozen other features, but some form of these two seem most important.
« Last Edit: March 12, 2023, 11:16:41 am by eerr »
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