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Indie Series 04: The Making of SyncSeven
1. Mohammad Shaker discusses his rhythm-based game SyncSeven which uses procedural content generation to generate levels based on music. 2. He outlines the music-based content generation process which extracts notes, rhythm and beats from music to drive a game model through a mapper. 3. The talk describes implementing SyncSeven using C# and Unity3D, including features like ads, leaderboards through Google Play, and social sharing.
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Indie Series 04: The Making of SyncSeven
- 1. The Making of SyncSeven MohammadShaker Founder, Designer and Developer, Strong Emotions Wikilogia Talk, April 2015
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- 4. Why we stoptalking when the driver overtakes a big truck on a narrow road.
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- 10. But. Can musicbe used as content?
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- 14. Guitar Hero. 10-30$/69$25 million copies, $1 billion in sales 2005 Rhythm-based Games
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- 36. Music-based CG Music Extractor (Notes,Rhythm, Beats) Model Mapper Xml File
- 37. Music-based CG Music Generated Level Extractor (Notes,Rhythm, Beats) Model Mapper
- 38. Music-based CG Music Generated Level Extractor (Notes,Rhythm, Beats) Music List<MusicEvent> Model Mapper List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>
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- 44. Why use these?! • Player Snake • Beat change direction • x20 other events corresponding to beats (shake, coloring, rotations, etc.)
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- 46. Price # Platforms Quality What wewant. Customizable / Repeatable Abstraction
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- 48. Music-based CG Music Generated Level Extractor (Notes,Rhythm, Beats) Music List<MusicEvent> Model Mapper List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>
- 49. Music-based CG Music Generated Level Extractor (Notes,Rhythm, Beats) Music List<MusicEvent> Model Mapper List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>
- 50. Untitled Top SecretNew Games (UTSNG)
- 51. Procedural Content Generation Music-basedContent Generation Game Generation
- 52. Procedural Content Generation Music-basedContent Generation Framework for Content Generation across different games
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- 55. SyncSeven UTSNG Framework Extractor Mapper Specific,inheritedSpecific, inherited Mapper Framework
- 56. SyncSeven UTSNG Framework Extractor Mapper Specific,inheritedSpecific, inherited Mapper change direction Mechanics XX combo Bonus XX 20x events User danger XX direction/ bg Beats XX Framework
- 57. SyncSeven UTSNG Framework Extractor Mapper Specific,inheritedSpecific, inherited Mapper change direction Mechanics collect/ avoid combo Bonus time streak camera shake/ coloring User danger camera shake/ coloring keyboard/ mouse/ gyroscope Input keyboard/ mouse/ gyroscope direction/ bg Beats collect/ avoid/ scale/ bg different interactions for different gameplay. Framework
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- 60. Price # Platforms Quality What wewant. Customizable / Repeatable Abstraction
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- 62. Implementation Extractor (Notes, Rhythm,Beats) Music List<MusicEvent> Model Mapper List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent>
- 63. Implementation Extractor (Notes, Rhythm,Beats) Music List<MusicEvent> Model Mapper List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent> Matlab
- 64. Implementation Extractor (Notes, Rhythm,Beats) Music List<MusicEvent> Model Mapper List<MusicEvent> List<GameEvent> Matlab C#, Unity3d
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- 67. Social Features private void ShareOnTwitter (string textToDisplay) { Application.OpenURL(TWITTER_ADDRESS + "?text=" + WWW.EscapeURL(textToDisplay) + "&lang=" + WWW.EscapeURL(TWEET_LANGUAGE)); }
- 68. Social Features private void ShareOnFacebook () { string msg = GameConfig.Score.GetShareMessage (); string linkParameter = "www.mohammadshaker.com/syncseven.html", nameParameter = "SyncSeven Game", captionParameter = ”", descriptionParameter = msg, pictureParameter = ”", redirectParameter = "http://www.facebook.com/"; Application.OpenURL (FACEBOOK_URL + "?app_id=" + FACEBOOK_APP_ID + "&link=" + WWW.EscapeURL(linkParameter) + "&name=" + WWW.EscapeURL(nameParameter) + "&caption=" + WWW.EscapeURL(captionParameter) + "&description=" + WWW.EscapeURL(descriptionParameter) + "&picture=" + WWW.EscapeURL(pictureParameter) + "&redirect_uri=" + WWW.EscapeURL(redirectParameter)); }
- 69. Cloud Services www.parse.com Cloud Service for any platform.
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- 71. Critics • Difficulty • Ads • Coloring • Open VS Close
- 72. NEXT www.mohammadshaker.com/next.html
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- 77. Do it withthe right people.
- 78. You only haveone life.
- 79. Don’t forget tohave fun.
- 80. Make your ownrules.
- 81. Say NO whenit matters. Say NO to things you don’t want.
- 82. The only thingholding us back is how far we are willing to go. Black Ops III Teaser, April 2015!
- 83. Remembering that I'llbe dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.! Steve Jobs, Commencement Address at Stanford University (2005)! “ ”
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