First comment, also fuck yes!

note by note playing?

like have 2 modes

1 like the first one

1 where u put in tabs or somethin

The only thing i could think of is various styles of guitar like wah wah or echo.
Kinda like Rock Band

My friend will go crazy when Punk-O-Matic 2 comes out, he loves the first version!

As for ideas... well... maybe customizing clothes, instruments or something...

Yeah like tacosorburritos said
For those of us (LIKE ME =D) who actually play the guitar, there should be an option to put in tablature, i know it will take more boring work, but it would definitely make the game the greatest thing that ever happened to NG

Character creation would be nice.

If possible create a database of songs users make that you can listen to by loading. It would be tough, but really worth it.

Haha you could always create a "highscore" system that saves the code for the songs, and have that highscore be a string + the song numbers. Then when you load from the highscore table and split the lines properly, you get the title + the song code + date creation w/e. Then you can load anyone's song =)

YAAAAY!!!!!!!!
i was a big fan of the first POM, spent so much time on it...
so very exicited to see what new things are possible with POM2, though im sorry to say i dont think i have any suggestions that aren't obvious (more music and stage/character customization) or impractical with flash n' such, but im sure you and the community will come up with something wicked.
SO... i hope this and all the rest of the comments will help you stay motivated to make POM2 the best it can be.
Hell, its about time eh?

One word.... Career mode.... uh, 2... words.

where you start as a home/school band and you make songs to the set requirements and depending on the structure and compleated requirements you get graded
better grade = more money = better gear = more/better members = more sounds for making better songs = better songs = better gigs
and thats career mode.
then you got good ol' "Rock Out" mode (same as punk-o-matic1) where you can get more stuff from doing the story mode.
also, (I know it's PUNK-o-matic) although I love punk, I'm a Metal Head and would love to see a band style option where you can change the style of your band.

these are just my ideas for kickassedness.

by band style i mean the type of music they play e.g. :punk, Metal, rock. (just an idea)
tho it's cool that I'll be able to customize how my members look

Awesome! If you need ideas, here's a couple:

-bass guitar part?
-more solos/fills for lead guitar?
-people moshing!!
-some ska?

>Jim

oh man, that would be so cool

Punk-o-matic 1 was THE most reviewed portal entry. (mostly cause reviewers are like "hey! listen to my song: 12345---098765!"

Will Punk-o-matic 2 break that record much faster? Most definately HELL YEAH.

one guy seggested to put a clothing method...
well add some tatoos should also be in....

Easter eggs! Make them hard to find, other than the Dude!! scene in the first one. If there are customizable characters, there should be bonus instuments to find as well.

MOAR DUDE SCENES xD

DUDE your game rocks ! hurry up and make Punk-O-Matic 2 ! And an idea : make more band members with other music tools , and i am learning to play guiter so i love this game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your game is awesome dude you should hurry up to make Punk-O-Matic 2 .
and an idea : Make more band members with other tools ... and also
make Pop-O-Matic LOL .

lol but seriously

ideas:
for the story line[so it has one] make it like where the first one was a audition for some punk rock out and your band made it to the next round :D

then im deff thinking a OUTDOOR stage with some huge ass speakers on the sides.

for backgrounding have it to where like you can be looking at the stage but then if you want you can swivel around and look out into the crowd like you was up on stage and then its easter egg hunting time! make it like when you click on someone or thing it has this chain of funny events you would see at like x-fest :P

ive heard you have customization covered already so ill skip that

i was thinking maybe if you wanted to you could select what your punks are playing like guitarists got a gibson or flying v or double neck, so on and so forth.

id also like cooler lighting effects than the first one but its not ALL about the lights i was thinking maybe adding some type of lazer rock show type thing with the mouse,.

click a option and the screen goes dark while the music you are made is playing then with some cool mouse effects make it light up the stage man!

im just pickin stuff outta my head for most of this but im deff here if you liked an idea and wanted more of what i was thinking or didnt quite get what i ment.

ok ok 1 more comment lol! what i think Xendarc91 was tryin to say was that punk is AWESOME but theres also metal and ska and good ol rock

maybe have it to where you have menus to select what kind of genre you want that note to come from, having heavy metal have more shredding wailing notes, good ol rokk having steady lines and some one of a kind solos. throw some ska in there.

if you need me to clarify that more PM me i try to check newgrounds at least once a day ^_^

Add a rhythm game engine to it, say, once you've saved your song you can go into a playback mode. Each little segment loop generates a certain set of notes for keypresses and it strings them all together for you to be scored on, guitar hero style. If this was already in the plan ignore me...

yeh thanks Kanti
that was what i was trying to say.
ok I'll go away now :)

you work for ubisoft :O

and ideas for punkomatic2, BATTLE MODE

If you are not too far into developing it I have some awesome ideas, good luck. Can't wait!

Custom clips of music? Like, instead of only having the usual selectable clips, you could also open the clip editor, and it would open a separate timeline that you could put a few notes on. Clicking on the note would change the pitch instead of the played section. Then back on the main timeline, you could use the custom clip anywhere.

I don't know how difficult that would be to code, though.

there should be bass and vocals (by voals I mean srcreams and stuff)as well as drums rythm and lead.

oh,I just have another Idea: set design and a section that shows you the tab for the scores so u can play it in real life as well!

More clip selections, instead of less than 13, maybe around 20 or so... I always had a problem with creating two songs that sound almost exactly alike.

A longer table to make longer songs. It always bummed me out that I had an awesome song goin' and then I had to end it as soon as I had something good going.

I'm not sure if someone directly suggested vocals, but if you ask me it's not a very good idea. I mean, maybe some punk screams would be cool to start a song, but that could go under one of the guitarists selections, guitarists are usually the ones screaming anyway. :]

Bass wouldn't be too fun either, too many instruments to keep track of and it'll send the file size to fucking high heaven.

Get rid of the background music? Other environments? More demo tracks (inspiration and new features.)?

As for career mode, I saw you were adding that, great idea! Start off as a slacker that just chills in his/her house playin'. Dreams of startin' a band and then you go out and audition for other bands. Maybe the first song you play could be set up to one of your demo tracks. And then if you make it, obviously you're in the band. If not, you move on to another group to audition for and play another demo. (I'm not sure of how complicated that is, but hey, it's an idea!) As for WHILE you are playing in career mode. A store would be cool, new guitars, new drums, new clothes, equipment, etc.

Just some of my ideas, not sure if they've all been mentioned. Sorry if they have.
Good luck we're all here waitin'!!

OH! Another thing, don't give a release date. Surprise us by showing us on the front page!

Later bro!

well I guess from the comment above you already have all the stuff I would want in there.

Oh yeah! and another short movie like "Dude!" in POM1.

This game will be FUCKING AWESOME!!!

well...the only thing i could think of is 'secrets'. like..you play specific notes after each other you get new equipments and clothing...or maybe hidden shorts with the P. Dude (and the penguins, of course)I know it could be a real shitwrack to make them...but DO IT FOR THE FAAAANS!! I wanna see the P. Dude slice a penguin in half by his scythe XD hehe, just kidding...

This comment serves as additional motivation

Thanks dude, you shust earned yourself a spot in my FAV artists fir a few reasons. Ok, first of all there should be a pretty big options of dressing the dude up? Also, what I thought is you could enter your own 46x46 pic as the guys face for fun! Make it exactly te same as last time, maybe even a career mode or battle offs. If you decide to go along with career mode I think yu should add little clips in between anda reputation or respect bar. Last - There should b a few mini-games, I mean who doesn't love those?

Thanks.

cool, good luck making it.

I think a quicker way of finding the riff/beat you're looking for would be better. I imagine Punk-o-matic 2 means more possibilities and more parts, so if you could streamline the process somehow so you don't have to keep clicking and sampling until you find the working one, blah blah you get what I'm talking about.

Also Dead Kennedys for background music. And none of that remastered bullshit by East Bay Ray.

Hey buddy, you should add character customization and hip hop ;D

Har dee har har, see what I did there? Anyhow, glad you're back on this one. There's nothin' like a project where you don't have to wait for the animator :P

As much as I loved the first Punk-O-Matic, there was just something missing. And trust me, I had loads of fun playing around, making my own songs, hell, I even learned a few of the riffs on my own guitar. But one thing I think would make the game great, to appeal to a greater audience, even, would be different riffs. I mean different like..Not JUST Punk music riffs, you know? I really enjoy playing around with this, but I think if there was a wider variety in the sound, then there would be tons more fun. Maybe some death metal riffs, some thrash, black metal...Ah, a little too much. I understand that you've gotta come up with these riffs, but hey, if it'll postpone it a little longer, it'd be well worth the wait.

Anyway, just a suggestion, like you said, "out-of-the-box-thinking." Can't wait to try out the new Punk-O-Matic! RETURN OF THE PENGUIN DOODS!

When i said battle mode i was hoping it would inspiring you to make one LOL

one idea could be that you could play against AI in a sort of guitar hero style with predefined tracks. But thats nothing like the original game so im not too sure if you should include it.

Alright, that's admirable enough :P

If ever you do decide to make another Blank-O-Matic though, might I suggest Melo-Matic? I'd say something like Children of Bodom/Norther/Wintersun type riffs. Now that'd be a game I'd play every couple of hours...For a couple of hours at a time :P

I think you should throw a little metal in there this time. you know a metal riff here or there. oh and customizable length and a feature that lets you start anywhere you want in the song. i hated that in the first one if you made a change you had to listen to the whole song over again.

good luck with the new one... ill be waiting in excitment.

Another appearance of the penguin stoners? And is it possible to add some bass in it this time around? One thing I surely liked about the first is that the notes, no matter how it was arranged, sounded as if they were molded together on purpose. Hopefully I still see and hear that in the sequel...probably you can make a contest, if you haven't, out of this? Or try to have some vocals this time? I'm thinking sort of the intros of The Offspring (namely All I Want with the "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!..." or the backup vocals on Tiny Voices (like what Brett and Bryan did during the solo part of the song)...Or better yet, why not have like an interactive showdown between either other players, or AI by having them play the notes in a certain way or pattern in which people are most interested in? All in all, just keep it in the same essence as the first game and it will turn out just right...

I dunno if my advice is worth a look at, it's really late here and I'm drunk, my guitars (yep all 3 of them) broke down before a gig and I'm listening to Meshuggah and The Beatles to pass the time...

I know you already said you were working on character customization, but will I be able to have an octopus playing guitar?

In my opinion, what would be really kick-ass, would be the abilty to make an entire show, not just a song. Like, adding smoke, lights, pyrotechnics and such.

More pre-made songs. I'm sort've music creating impaired so I can't make songs. for shit. XD!

Interview format time!
LtMcMuffin: Say, Evil-Dog, I know of a few good local punk bands. They are not my bands, I'm not trying to plug myself here. Might I be able to put a word in for them and see one or two of their songs make it into the game?

Evil-Dog:

how about more songs in the soundtrack last time u only had 3 got repeditive
and i cant wait for no 2 man !

Awesome. Can't wait. Make another pot induced quickie flash too.

SSWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!

Ps. are you ever gonna make a techno-matic?

Sounds awesome!

Suggestion: Maybe you could have a "Submit Song" feature? You know, so people can hear the songs you make using Punk-o-Matic 2.
...Or was that already suggested?

Still, good luck with the project!

More tabs! Also, listen to this song that was based of a similar but much greater song by me.
------3---6-7972---3---2---1---0---4-
4--3---793----2----------------------
2---91--9-----2---3-3-4---0---5-4---2 ---3-4---4----a---4-------4---0---2--
-4---8---9---0-----c--1---0---1---7-7 -2-2-3-4-6-6-8-7-7-3-4-5----6-8-3-0--
-a------------------4---7-7-

P.S. that is for punk-o-matic. Don't try to listen to dashes and numbers. You may go deaf.

[Motivation]

hey i luv pom, its in my favs and has been in my favs since it came out.i luv the whole thing about it, but i no u said something about flash being hard on u when it comes to auido. but if u could, i hav an idea (like every1 in this place =D) but could u somehow make lyrics in there? and if not try to allow us to use r mics with pom 2? because ive listined to my songs ovr and ovr, and i thought something was wrong with them. i found out what it was: NO LYRICS! but i cant download pom or any of the songs on there {my computer is retarded >:( )} and use Windows Media Maker. so if u would help that would be awesome!

I Have a billion ideas but im listing down the ones I thought could be nesescary(w/e) (pls dont blame me if i copied your ideas as I didnt read the ENTIRE list of comments)

1. Please make it appropriate for all ages, we dont a want boobz in there and kids cant enjoy the fun cuz SOMEBODY , put boobz in there. Also, no vulgarities, nudity, sick jokes, trying to make sick jokes , not funny sick jokes, trying to make sick jokes that are not funny sick jokes sick jokes sick jokes. and last of all , SICK JOKES.i must emphasize on the sick jokes , sick jokes sick jokes sick jokes sick jokes sick jokes.... sick jokes......

2. Currency, when you complete a certain song in career mode, depening on how well you played, you get payed a certain amout of money(eg. Got C+ and earned $750) The money you collect can buy you new guitars, drums, basses, so on. If enough money is earned, can unlock a secret character or song. Maybe a composer .

3. Achievements. Put an achievements tab where you can see what special things you have done (eg. Get A+ in 10 songs in hard mode, unlocked all secret songs) . This can lead to ...

4. Secrets. No point getting achievements if there is no rewards.(eg. 3 Achievements unlocked = uhh... Super crazy irish difficult expert advanced mode)

5. Make a name for your band and compete with other * NPC bands* to win the Annual Best Music Awards ( ABMA ( W/e). If the music is good( I dont know how to do that but anyway) you earn a trophy which can help you in career or challenge mode.

6. Rankings(scoreboard) . Nort like F, B+ ,S , D- or w/e. I mean like if you get all S's in all songs in career mode, your ranking would be " Teh Godliest Chuck Norris shoop da whoop pedobear". But if all songs get D- or D+ or c, you get the rank" An old lady can kill you with a nickel"

7. House. A rock star cant live liek a bum on a street! not much about it here
it is just to buy gating and reinforced doors so PAPARAZZI cant break into your house. But, the less popular , the less paparazzi, therefore , the less money. BUT!! the more popular, the more paparazzi, therefore , the more money(to buy gating).

8. I WANT A GH3 inspired part. compose a song and play it. Upload any songs. Do anything, can even record your own voice =D.

9. AND THE LAST OF ALL..... the u;ltimate ending, an epic cutscene showdown to see which is the best band in the universe, you will be playing agaainst an alien team lol.

ttas all , 9 points written in an easy to read manner , with a few grammar errors. I hope you can include soem of my ideas. I d be as HAPPY AS A HANDICAPPED BEGGAR WINNING $500000000000000000000000000000000000

Awesome!
Take your take, perfect it. I would suggest that you can see some crowd so you won't so it in a warehouse with 1$ lights (AKA Punk-O-Matic 1). Plus i would recommend to add some pinch harmonics, maybe slides... And, of course, MOAR DUDE ON DRUGS WITH NAKED PINGUINS !!!!!

If you're looking for some new guitar riffs to put in there here is a good place. To get the sounds off there id just use audacity and do a "record from stereo mix"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8-uwr7JSl5 Q

Punk-o-matic was the thing that got me interested in music, now im in too bands and we make big gigs and demos. Thank you, i seriously owe you my life. Oh, and i cant wait for the sequel!

Ok so first, I love Punk-o-matic and can't wait for 2 to come out. I have read what most you are trying to accompish here, and I was thinking that I like everything people has said and hat I like what you're trying to accomplish so Rock...or Punk...on man!

Oh btw, wouldn't it be sick instead of adding the screams you have the player mic it out. I mean you should definitely add something where if the player has a mic with them they can totally rock out to it. I mean that is just my view. MIC IT OUT!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!
(not in a gay way)

ur awesome evil, pure awesome!
i love ur flash's and i love ur music!!

:3

When your done you should goto ur boss in ubisoft, and tell em. Listen fool check this shit out! It be makin made score on newgrounds and everyone wants to have my babies because of it. So in conclusion, put this shit on xbox 360/ps3/wii, make crazy amounts of money, and crown me your new king! Of course in a formal way so you don't get fired... but your punk so they will understand if you do. lol.

seriously tho this is awesome news and after reading all these comments im sure your gonna make a tight ass game. From what I read, I liked the career mode a lot and am curious on how thats gonna turn out. As well as that section to dl others songs would be sweet too, all in game of course. But its cool that youve answered everyones response even if the questions have been repeated 4-5 times. lol but Good luck dude cant wait. /motivation end.

A few things that made POM1 difficult, was I would find a new rhythm i wanted to put at the beginning of the song or something... and then I would have to remake the entire song, in other words you should add an insert function so you can insert a new line.

Also if your gonna make 40 riffs per instrument then there should be a function that you click the square you want then type in the number of the riff, so you don't have to click your way through them all.

And this one I doubt you could do, but if possible make a way to compile the selected riffs into an mp3 file and be able to download it or something...

Besides those, thanks for making POM, it was great.

sweet dude i can play punk o matic for hours cant wait till u make #2

Oh one more thing, is you should find a way crop off the beginning to a clip instead of just the end, like you know how you can put another riff right after a long riff it ends at the beginning of the new riff, but say you want just the end of the riff, is there some way you could do that?

Heres a little dose of motivation for ya.I have dedicated this song towards your new game!
----9------------73--80--80---9--8988 80---0---9---9-----------------------
-------------0---1---8---2---2---0---
0---a---9---9---9---a---c---b--------
----------------------0---a-5-a-----1 ---1---6-6-888-a---0---1---1---9---a-
---------------------------------
Keep up the good work!Be sure to take your time on it!

Okay, after reading a bunch of your comments, I'd like to add my own two cents. Now, you said that you would have 40+ riffs for each instrument but I think that you should have a few extra, and make it to where you have to learn some of the riffs from other guitarists in story mode, if thats too hard (I know what a bitch action scripting can be) just make it unlockable as you progress through the story. Plus I recomend having really short riffs (Almost like notes but a little more complex, like chords) and then you should make it to where you can build your own Solo in a creator mode or something... I love the whole customization thing you're adding by the way... And I'm not so sure if you covered this, it wasn't in great detail, but I also would absolutely love to see some kind of "Hot Keys" Like maybe not individual notes, but only enough to cover the whole keyboard so you could so a random solo in the middle of a song (Like in Rock Band) Plus, I'm not so sure how exactly you are going to go about story mode, the only way I can see it would be guitar hero style, if you can see another way, then you're a genius! (Which everybody on Newgrounds already knows you are) But other than that, I like all of your add-ins, so I don't won't to fill up this page with a bunch of non-sense that you have already covered, anyways, while you work on this, I'll head back to Punk-o-Matic 1. See ya!

~Deathwishez~

in this version i was hoping that it wouldent just be three bands youve taken sectionals from
other than just punk maybe put some more crazy guitar like dragonforce or heavy riffs like underminded
you need to put some beastly drums in there and maybe some drums solos for an easy song starter

im really hopin theres some heavyier and faster stuff in this one

like unseen or the casualties maybe clit45 possibly complete control or SOMETHING AMAZING YOU COULD DO PUT IN ASG

on a personal note

my friends band has amazing lead guitar they're called after the tragedy ,they're on itunes and have a myspace so maybe you could check out putting some of their stuff in it as well

ty =p

this shit is gonna suck

WOW.. FUCKING FAGGOT UR 27 AND TELLING US OUR SHIT SUCKS? IM 15 AND MY FRIEND IS 16 AND PRETTY SURE THAT IF I WOULD CONTINUE WORKING ON THIS BULLSHIT UNTILL 27 I WOULD MAKE SHIT WAY BETTER THEN URS...

more of a drumset?

and stuff like drumm fills, and other beats.

also what about a bass part?

there should be more riffs this time around, you know.

I really enjoyed Punk-o-matic 1, It kept me entertained all day long. I wish you good luck with Punk-o-matic 2 and I know that it will be an amazing flash. I tried to make a flash like this a few years back and I failed miserably, half of the stuff didn't even work. Punk-o-matic 2 will definitely be an inspiration to me and other mediocre programmers all around the world.

Yo dude...It's pretty badass that you decided to get off your lazy ass and go punk NG out...much respect...

~~~unknownrocker

Yeah dude, loved POM 1..great stuff, if only i could create something like that :)
too be honest, with playing it for years i would of thought it would have been created ages ago :( but yer respect for deciding to make #2 :)
as for ideas..just more bass, guitar, drum sounds really..making the bass a bit more obvious maybe ? what about, rhythm, an lead guitar..an i know its a punk band so im guessing keyboards is out of the question..?
Good luck with Punk o Matic 2 mate :) keep messing round with it..loads of people want it finishing :) love it man!

Also yeah..2 modes would be good..like a 'just for fun' mode and a 'carer mode' like the sound of something like that

Also, try to add characters that you can solo play anytime. Like guitarist , Drummer , Bass , maybe Pianist(i wuld love that). Well, if you can guess what this song are without looking it up, you must be a fan of -----------

Piano notes :

A, A , C , A , D, A , D, C

C, C, E,C, G , C , E , C

G , G , B, G , C , G , C , B.

F , F , A , F , B , F , C, B..
good luck on porn2<< lol

Maybe you should let people save the songs onto theyr hard drive...But the 1st one was great anyway=D

HICKA FREAKING YA!!!

ive played the game 60 times a day and now i shall play it 100 times a day
YOU STOLE MY LIFE!!!!
ahahha

I'd say... Longer songs, definitely. I could only go to about 2 mins on the last one.

The ability to repeat a section would be good. I don't know how it'd be implemented, but if you could select an area on the timeline and totally repeat it somewhere else, for the chorus say, then the mixes would be more like real songs.

Vocals would be cool, but I'd say the best would be to somehow record from mic in Flash and then play it with the song, but that would probably fail because not many people know how to record at a reasonable volume. No, probably it's better without vocals. If you're doing exporting as .mp3/wav then I can work on that myself.

I can't think of anything else, but I love the idea of a database for user's songs, that sounds cool. The ability to load extra riffs, maybe? So by clicking you cycle through 1 - 12, but if you hold a key and click you open a menu with 30 or so? That'd be nice.

First off, you are amazing for responding to each and every one of these 70+ reviews. Way to get involved with your fans bro! That's awesome. :)

I've read almost everything you have written on this page, and POM2 is actually starting to seem like seriously 100 times better than I thought it would be. I had no idea that you were taking the game in this direction. I assumed it would be pretty much the same as the first one, but just with different riffs and customizable characters. Things like career mode and a bass part are kinda surprising to me, especially since I think I remember a while ago you said that you prefer punk music to be just rhythm, lead, and drums. Good idea though!

Can't wait for POM2 to get finished up! It better be as good as you're making it seem! ;)

Ah, and also I think there needs to be a way to cut riffs short, like if you only want your guy to play the first square of a two square riff. I know you could do that in the first one, but you had to cut it off by placing another riff in there, which you don't always want to do. Sorry if this was already suggested, I didn't see it anywhere.

hey man, i will be your first man to be the pro reviewer :) I've reviwed some games and posted them on Gamespot even music, i got experience so expect me to lay out a full GOOD review ;)

how about the abillity to have the guys play melody from a selection of songs.

Punk-O- Matic 2! great!!!! I wanna play it!! NOW!!!!! XD realy I wanna play it! men if you have time you can give me tips with the actions scripts?

I find that some punk groups use the piano in some songs, can you put the piano in?
I found while playing punk-o-matic 1 today I wanted to have two of a mussician to make a nice tune. Can you make instruments interchangeable/have the ability to add another player available in the sequel?
Thanks,
Teh-MC

THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Amazing to have a legendary game of the past being reborn.

Yea I know I already left a comment but I've got some questions to ask...like will Icewolf make a comeback here as voice actor? I know you mentioned no more Disgaea spoofs and I suppose thats pretty much rational and expected but will there be more of a humorous snippet or clip in the game? Come to think of it, it sure as hell has nothing to do with the game but just some wishful thinking. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention in my last post about a couple of suggestions I had in mind...like better background (garage or a concert maybe), a foreground if possible, better lighting, and more bg music...I love listening to those old skool punk rockers!

PUT MORE DOOOOOOOD! You could have a few already there, and more you are able to unlock, including the one from the original!

also, are you really a programmer at Ubisoft, if so, did you work on either of the Rainbow Six Vegas games, and if thats true, give yourself a pat on the back, because Rainbow Six Vegas ROX!!!

Ausomatastic!
Can you make the game mod-able?

I really liked the first one and made a bunch of songs with it so I can't wait for the 2nd one!
I WAS gonna suggest bass (what can i say, i like bass, i even play it :) ) too bad someone already suggested it.
But how do you want me to send you my logo design for when I finish it? (email, pm , etc?)

I think a 'create-and-play' feature would be badass, Like, you make your song, you copy/paste the code and share it with your friend; that's all fine and dandy. But what if you could play other peoples songs, Rock Band style?

You'd have to pre-make the notes for each riff, but once that's done, you can make it so it's automatically pieced together when someone wants to play a song (of course, I'm sure it would have to load in-game, though).

What would also be cool (and probably a very requested feature) would be a 'convert-to-mp3' button, maybe by way of playing the song back and automatically recording it (I'm not sure if that's actually possible, though).

Yeah, but overall, more music options, more polish, and more customization is a given, and maybe riffs from different genres (like alternative, funk, etc.) of rock (just as music choices, I wouldn't want to have to choose just one music style)?

Battle mode. You and a friend both compose one song each, then submit it on a site for review. After a pre-set time the one with the higher score is the winner

i remember playing punk-o-matic back in 05', and as i can see number2 will have more features making gameplay hopefully better, all i know is that if its better then the original then god damnit this game is going to be the best!

Oh, sorry. I didn't read through all the comments so I didn't see it. But yeah, good luck with the game man, can't wait till it comes out.
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I think like.. Challenges would be cool.

Everything your saying about PoM 2 sounds like it will be one of the coolest flash games around!

I really cant wait, Good Luck!

Ok, what I would like is if users who have microphones could speak a rhythm and then choose different notes for the beats in the rythm.

No, I mean like, you can play a song like a separate game, like Guitar Hero, where you hit a button as a note comes.

Yo man c'est nice de voir que tu t'y remets! Nos attentes sont hautes alors c'est mieux d'être bon :p

Mais ouais j'ai pas mal hâte de jouer à ça, je sais que des fois c'est dur en esti d'ouvrir un projet flash pis de plonger dedans... Je me fixe plein de petits objectifs a court terme pour me motiver!

PS hey dud lisen 2 my sogn 39482034820943802
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i would love.Like that you can record your voice.
Like the characters move when they are like playing.Headbanging and stuff like that.That you can name the band and all that stuff :P

well, me being one of the few people who read EVERY comment and reply, as well as the post itself(gasp), I know what you haven't mentioned yet (on this post) that I would like to see; stage presence. Dudes jumping around like a true punk band should. There should also be a "cutoff" track. Put this thing in and it'll just flat out stop the sound where it stands, nothing. What is your timeframe(if applicable) for this games completion? Vocals could be easily fixed by Blink 182 inspired words that you cannot tell what he sez, and as well as "Oi", "da-da", "na-na" "la-la" "woo" and "yeah". What would be cool would be the ability to change each members instruments(i.e. guitar chorus, drum and bass setup etc.). What specifications for band member customization are there? like gender, shirt, hair, face, etc. Whaddaya think of my Ideas, whaddaya wanna say about yours?

I cant wait. if you are going to put different guitars in can you please put in the Gibson SG and Gibson Les Paul

first of all I'd just like to say punk-o-matic was one of the better music making games i have played be sides of course guitar hero rock band ect. but i think you should instead of making a song just for the hell of it you should actually have like concerts to preform and sweeeeet unlockable characters guitars basses drums ext. like the GOD OF ROCK! i know no matter what it will turn out to be a good game.
also you should have a mini game when you do hella good on a concert you'd have to try to get away from all the crazy people!! lol that'd be sick cya around :P

oo i just got an idea i don't know yet if they telled or something but.Like if you can buy new instruments.and like at the end. you can jump of the stage wow that could be so cool.

My brain only works in reading during school, like alot of people that go to my school

Also i think you should make it so when you play the songs you made you can skip to certain parts so you don't have to listen all the way through. if your doing something like super guitar manican, put 2 players in it. when is it ruffly going to be out?

speed of the beats?and maybe choose how long do you want to hear them if they stay at the same speed?

I don't know if this is impossible or someone else has had the idea but
the ability to change the beat might be pretty fun so I could make a fast part than a slowish one.

Okay since I just looked above my comment and realized someone with the same idea posted just before me heres a suggestion:
the ability to get songs from Punk-O-Matic 1 and maybe more squares for notes.

Thank God you're putting in bass. You can't have music without it!

I dunno if it has been asked for yet, but if you could make it possible for us to transfer our songs from POM1 to POM and improve on it (i.e. add bass), thne that would be rockin'.

P.S. Could you try and bypass 2 minute songs?

I also think there should be one like the first and then the actual note bar, yes I play the gutar and the reason I like this so much is because I cant find anyone I know whao can play a good bass, damnit, thats why we need games like that for poeople like me who cant find any other good players...... meh, also I liked the dood thing in the other one do another thing like that.

First of all, huge fan, the game that played a giant role in hooking me to newgrounds, thanks for that.

Second of all, just bass, lead/rhythm, and drums? Or will you add keyboard as well? As I've read, you know CoB, so you have to know how Janne Wirman and Alexi Laiho can sound absolutely godly with Guitar/Keyboard duos. I'd like to have a few keyboard "riffs" in there, but if not, then no big deal.

Also, whenever I played POM1, I left myself a little space at the beginning of about 10 boxes so I could listen to things and see how they transition and work out together without playing through the whole song. Is there going to be a sort of feature like a small "Preview Box" where I can listen to how something sounds without putting it into the actual song, or at least a "skip-ahead" feature?

Last thing, in most riffs, they went up to 3-4 "boxes" of time. Is there going to be a way to use the middle boxes without using the first?

For example:

Riff1
1A 1B 1C

Riff2

2A 2B 2C 2D

Is it going to be possible to do things such as 1B, 1C, 2A, 2D?

how many insterments are you puting in.

Question:may we see some of your Punk-o-matic?such as the code if you made any?

And Question 2:Will you post screenys of the game for us while your making it?or will you tingle our imagination by not at all posting anything and making us think you gave up then suddenly post it XD

Wow, finally some real good games.
about some idea´s...
how about maybe some editable backgrounds and audience etc.? mmmm...
and dont forget 2 put one of your songs on it as a DEMO k?

(i just made an account to comment, W00T)
btw. love asshole, great song

ok about Punk-O-Matic 2 or whatever you're gunna call it. I was thinking about having a competition. you could be a judge, or an entrant it doesn't matter. judges needed though. but I don't have the power to send around enough information for the world to see. :( makes me sad ): . anyways info and rules on my page. you can PM me edits and I'll change it. THX

Ummm. I was wondering if you ever thought of putting lyrics into your songs. Also it would be interesting if you tryed some heavy metal. Think about it might make you even more popular here.

theres gotta be some guitar solos and more tracks for each instrument...and maybe different speed settings...and a bass player..

oops didnt read the other comments about the bass..never mind

I absolutely love(d) your Punk-o-matic #1, and I hope #2 will be even better.
Pherhaps give the player a choise which instruments he/she wants to use, like 3 fillable bars, but 5 pickable insturments. (or just add another bar with another instrument)
and a feature that you can download your own song as an mp3 file?? no idea if thats possible.
Maybe a slider with which you can adjust the selected musicpiece, like: Hard/soft or a slider for the height of the note? (probably a lot of work but im just brainstorming)

Thats about it (for now)

Hi again, i came up with an idea...
maybe you could put up a POM 2 website where you can log in to different rooms with real online players, making music. and afterward 2 be able to rate the song.
with like a ranking system. Lke this

10 stars = NEWB
50 stars= ROOKIE
...
5000 stars= AUDIO CRASHER

etc.

(still loving assholes)

Maybe you can post a little beta of it if it's in that stage yet. :P

Punk-O-matic 2???
YEAH, that's great.. you are a incredible great music Artist, so i'm looking very forward to it.
You are a Programmer at Ubisoft??? And a Creative Canadian ???
Impressive... Ces' la Vie.. you are very different
As long there's a System to Rebell against, the Punk will survive!!
(i'll change that! XD)

Not much to improve on because Punk-O-Matic is already great. You should have more loops to choose from and different instruments to pick from. Other than that, I can't really think of anything.

one suggestion i would make is to be able to export your "song" as an MP3 maybe?

Just a quick question of curiosity here, but is career mode going to be TOO easy?

From what I know of technology, it will be pretty impossible for the game itself to distinguish an awesome string of riffs from something that sounds like utter crap, since you know..it's just a machine.

Or is career mode going to be completely different like DDR or normal rhythm games?

Also, not sure if this is too far out of your skills or not, but you say that a lot of awesome ideas won't be possible because you'd have to record the riffs yourself and it would simply be too time consuming, and a lot of people want vocals, but making them too extensive would be from the same problem.

Would it possible to set up some kind of thing on a separate site, probably punk-o-matic.net, where people can set something up to have their own database of their own sounds they recorded and uploaded, but with a certain max limit, so as not to overload the servers? I feel this would be able to give a lot of people what they want without really adding a whole bunch of work.

How about we create our OWN vocal tracks?! We can probably use a microphone to record it. So we can sing with our songs!

Good idea, hope it´s getting good. One qeustion tough, will be there a download-link or something to put your (or somebody else) creation on your mp3/iPod/...?

Grtz

Punk-o-matic 2 wow this shit is gonna be hardcore

make the band memebers move around stage, animate a crowd ath their feet in a pit, and increase the length of the board porpotional to the amount of new sounds and effects? AND A DJ!

Woah me kant wait for that!

Oh man I'm soooooooo excited. Dude I dunno what it was with POM1 but it was the element of creating your own song from scratch that really attracted alot of your audience I think. I really hope you keep that in POM2. And 40 riffs each sound amazing. That will keep me for a couple weeks at the most. I wish I had some cool ideas to give you but at the moment I really don't but if I do I'll get back to you man. Good Luck!!!

Hey, not sure if it was asked or not, (I only checked the first few comments) but is it possible for you to add a speed function ? Like to either slow or speed up individual sounds, or the whole track together ? I think that would be pretty cool :).. Kind of stopped you from making something really creative in the first one.

Will you add in sound effects exterior to the music itself that are commonly heard in songs' intros? (Lightning, wind, chimes, etc.)

I'm assuming that half of one of the guitar's riffs won't sound almost the exact same except in a slightly different tone.

Also, kinda off-topic from this particular blog, but what ever happened to the Freak series?

Can you make it open source so we can put our own logos and crap in? That would rock. You should make Mad (chucksnation) one of the covers in POM2. That song rocks.

Hiya!

It's really cool that your gonna make a second Punk-O-Matic, and therefore i got an idea maybe :D

(I don't know if others said it too but here it goes ;))

Maybe.. Some kind of online song putting. Like that beatbox game : http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /367974

But then.. People could put there songs on some sort of the same thing. And if others click on the song they want, the notes will come (Or not so others wont steal his 'work') And then the song will be played off :D

Greetings from BlackL ;)

ok first let me say punk-o-matic is one of the funnest game like ever also i think you are very good at flash. Getting to the point maybe unlockable characters eddie Van Halen, jimmy Hendrix, i dont really know what else you could do to make it better as long as character creation is in there i think it'll be sick i know it will.

Cutscenes on career mode possibly? and maybe band mascot creation (if iron maiden did it than you can also).

I NEED NEW PUNK O MATIC!!!! lmao hope its coming about great!

Well some ideas now,
- Make a solo tool. So that lets say you want a drum fill/solo it will give you cool little things to make a drum fill/solo with. (same with guitar)
- More guitar solo type riffs. (kinda explained ^^ up there lol)
- Make it more hands on. Idk how to make it more hands on then it is now but I know it helps make a game fun.

WHEN IS IT GONNA BE DONE?!?!?!?!?! lol I can't wait!!!

Hey man, do you really work for Ubisoft? That's pretty cool. Ubisoft has some pretty awesome games. Anyway, I don't know about this Punk-o-Mah-jib thing, but your music if FUCKING awesome! ;D

I'm not sure if it's already been said, seeing as I'd rather not read 137 comments at 7:30 a.m. but you should make it so that different venues are playable. Maybe even add a bit of customization with lighting effects and the such.

The ability to use different guitars/bass/drum kits would be really cool as well.

Maybe even a customizable band. Y'know, two guitarists, one bassist, one drummer or one guitar, one bass, one drummer, or two guitars, no bass, on drummer, etc.

Also, drummer needs a cowbell. It's like an unwritten law, lol. Good work on the first though, I'm really looking forward to this next one!

~Tovi~

Make more instruments and a light customize, so you can choose yourself how the light will be. And maybe some rockets and flames to come up from the ground.
But when will the game be out, which month.
PS ! I love this Punk-o-Matic =)

This song rules everything.
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How much progress have you made with this sequel to the best rhythm game on
Newgrounds?

I don't feel like searching 100+ comments so I din't know if it's already been said but maybe you could add a feature that allows you to make certain parts quieter?
I'll make it easier for me to hear the rhythm.

how about a storyline

I loved the first but along with the character customization will there be a choose of guitars u can use use like a les paul,or flying V

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This song is so Great, go to my page and say what you think about it everyone.

Will there be a variaty of guitars you can choose for youre characters like lespauls for guitarists and firebird for bass if so comment back plz.
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Two things:
-are you really working for ubisoft ?
- punk-o-matic 2 should have a play yourself mode like SC guitar maniac Dx 2 and 3.
So when you have made the song you could play it yourself like in guitar hero or something, I know it will be really hard but it will be worth it.
(I know its a stupid idea)

you should have more instruments and a singer :P

I think this may be Far fetched but: You could try too make it so that you create the song, and then you can play it Gutair hero like. Or make a downloadable MP3 file of your song.

Try to make like a tour mode!

put this song its crazy but cut some parts because its to long http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/24516

"If I was to make another something-o-matic, it would be trance-o-matic or metal-o-matic, but metal like Children of bodom, dunno if that's what you like....but I love melodic metal"
WOOT, another Bodom fan!
"Right, I'll try to put a lot of them. They're called Covers in POM2"
If the whole copyright thing goes good, would Inflames' trigger hasppen to be one?

"you don't understand...I don't want copyrighted stuff in the game....the covers are punkomatic songs, like the 2 demos in POM1"

ohhhhhh. whoops

Me again!
Hey, by the way, for this sequel have you thought of like, a world tour mode? that would make it alot more fun!
Oh and also, if it's possible to create characters, could you put in a instrument
designing feature?

Alright ive read most of the comments so ill try not to repeat anything youve hear a million times (dont you hate that >.<). So i know your going to have a lot of rifts going for the second pom but i think it would drive more people to play through the whole thing if you had to play through the story to get more of the complexed ones. Just a thought, and a git-er-done for......... I really dont know xD.

hehe... i can barely wait to see it coming... in mah face dude, youre so good

Three questions:
1.How is the sequel doing now?
2.If you are, how many more notes are you going to put in punk-o-matic 2?
And 3.Can you reply to this message with one of songs you've made on the first
punk-o-matic?
(If you have made any).

Dude you got to add alot of guitars and basses so you can chose which you want them to play with and maybe if you put everything right they make cover songs idk its up to you im sure youll make it perfect

It's gonna be great!

Hey, you are the creater of POM so I thought it would be best to get your opinion on this song.

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By what of you're estimation of time will it be until it's out?

I think that it should be more like a game, other than a flash. Like a mini guitar hero on the computer! With like a career mode, free play mode, lights and crowds, and cool stuff you can do to your insturments while playing to get more people to like you or something.. and also maybe a button you can press to do sweet little fill ins. IDK! What ever you come up with, Ill be happy, I love P-O-M. :)

2 things. 1. Is That guy with the gotee The Postal Dude? 2. Maybe you could add some lyrics?

Ok, completely off-topic, but I like your music and once I learn to make a flash of high caliber, I was wondering if u wouldn't mind helping the cause with ur awesome riffs? PM me whenever u get the chance after reading this.

saving songs would be good

how about metal-o-matic?

Hey Evil Dog Punk o matic 1 WAS FRIKKEN AWESOME! what i think you should do is add the ability to save a created song as an MP3 or sumthin

KEEP ROCKIN OUT EVIL DOG!

I got an idea, how about you make a punkomatic server in the game where you download other peoples songs,instead of having to share them by code?