Songbringer (tuxdb.com)

Soundtrack Release

At long last, Songbringer's soundtrack has been released. The game's glitchy, somewhat-procedural bass music has been codified into the form of an album for the pleasure of your ear drums. This is a gapless album. One song flows into the next to create a seamless, coherent whole. As such, it plays best start to finish rather than being shuffled. Did you know the game actually has all music in procedural form? The rhythms remain constant yet the melody can change slightly depending on your world seed and dungeon number. For example, world seed PEANUT might have a dungeon 1 in the key of A while world seed YELLOW might have it in the key of C#. Additionally, the game's music is adaptive, so when there are more enemies on screen the music gets more intense by adding layers. In a way, this soundtrack is like a snapshot of Songbringer's procedural music content. It starts with the first song in the key of F# then using harmonic mixing takes steps of five to arrive at the next song in the key of C#. Thus the circle of fifths is used to lend the soundtrack a sense of cohesion and continuity. Note that some of the original songs have been split into multiple tracks. 23 tracks, 50 minutes. Track list: 01 - Zephyr Perspective - F# - 73.5 bpm 02 - An Old Ship - F# - 73.5 bpm 03 - Ekzera - C# - 65.94 bpm 04 - Sindraphon - G# - 69.54 bpm 05 - Radruiel - D# - 69.54 bpm 06 - Metatron - A# - 109.99 bpm 07 - Murmuroth - F - 94 bpm 08 - Puriel - C - 92 bpm 09 - Lassaurium - G - 151 bpm 10 - Eiael - D - 88.8 to 120.97 bpm 11 - Deep Along Orion - A - 65.94 bpm 12 - Nearby Bellatrix - A - 65.94 bpm 13 - We Laid Anchor - A - 65.94 bpm 14 - A Planet Named - A - 65.94 bpm 15 - After the Great War - A - 65.94 bpm 16 - Kiel - E - 91 bpm 17 - A Hidden Stone - B - 69.54 bpm 18 - Velle - F# - 69.54 bpm 19 - Bath Kol - C# - 110.76 bpm 20 - Hemisphere - G# - 120 bpm 21 - Victorious - D# - 65.94 bpm 22 - Zero - A# - 69.54 bpm 23 - The Helix - F - 42.66 bpm This album is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike 3.0 license. Feel free to remix, mash-up, tweak and share this album non-commercially as long as you provide credit and license your work under identical terms. Cheers, Wizard_fu

[ 2018-06-13 17:07:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Songbringer
Wizard Fu Games

Developer

Wizard Fu Games

Publisher

2017-09-01

Release

Action Indie RPG Adventure Singleplayer

Songbringer: Procedural Action Adventure

Explore 308 million procedurally-generated worlds. Take the nanosword, awaken sleeping evil and quell the nightmare before it happens.

You play the role of protagonist and accidental hero, Roq Epimetheos. With a propensity for partying and making music, he cruises the galaxy with his skybot Jib aboard the ship Songbringer, searching for verdant planets absent the presence of galactic police.

When Roq finds the nanosword hidden in a cave on Ekzerra, he unwittingly awakens an ancient evil. The sword is pretty fraggin' sweet though. It... hums.

Jib, the Skybot

Jib's story is quite long. He began life as a human boy on the skycity planet Yuerder. Growing up, he took an interest in programming artificial intelligence, eventually making a career for himself. On his deathbed, he illegally transferred his consciousness into a skybot, destroying the consciousness link thereby preventing overwrite.

7500 years later our story begins...

Jib scans the bodies of your fallen foes, sometimes uncovering valuable loot. He can also gain the ability to stun foes. Jib is automatically controlled by AI, or player two can play Jib in local co-op mode.

Lacking the ability to grow one as a human, Jib is obsessed with mustaches.

Procedural

You choose a 6-letter world seed when beginning a quest. This seed is used to procedurally generate the planet, overworld, secrets and dungeons.

Entering the same world seed will always generate the same world. Thus lore and competition can be shared with others.

Play a new seed and surprise yourself with a new world. Or enter a seed you are familiar with for a speed run.

Open / Non-linear

The generated overworld is open and non-linear. Head in any compass direction you like or play dungeons out of order.

Of the nine dungeons Roq and Jib can uncover in each world:

Some are thematic, containing puzzles and items integral to completing the world.
Some are secret, hidden side quests in which abilities can be gained.
Some are tough as nails with overwhelmingly difficult foes, mobs and bosses.

Secrets of the Cacti

Everywhere one looks, there is much that is not seen. Concealed treasures abound. By eating cacti, Roq gains psychedelic powers and is able to perceive the secrets that lurk in plain sight.

Some items Roq discovers can be combined to create distinct artifacts. Find a blink orb and a fire cube? Take these to the droidsmith aboard Songbringer to craft a fire orb enabling Roq to teleport forward a few steps while turning into a fireball.

Being a Zelda-inspired game, Songbringer features no experience points (no XP). Progress is made by crushing mobs, vanquishing bosses and claiming lost technological devices.

Leaderboard

On completing a quest, several factors are quantified to produce an overall score:

Time to complete
Percentage of map uncovered
Percentage of items obtained
Game mode: regular vs permadeath

Your score can be saved to a global leaderboard sorted by world seed. This leaderboard cycles through seeds by popularity and freshness. You can manually override to view a particular seed.

Links

Twitter @wizard_fu
Twitch (daily live stream)
Youtube Channel
Facebook Page
Official Website
Kickstarter (successfully funded)
Press Kit

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu or equivalent
Processor: 1.0 Ghz or fasterMemory: 1 GB RAM
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0+ Compatible Card
Storage: 2 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu or equivalent
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Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ Compatible Card
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