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...
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that's the core of the career mode, you compose your stuff then you play it live ala guitar hero / DDR
Someone reading all my responses will know all the features haha
yeh thanks Kanti
that was what i was trying to say.
ok I'll go away now :)
Goodbye :P
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
you work for ubisoft :O
and ideas for punkomatic2, BATTLE MODE
Expend on that idea, what do you mean?
You can play with 2 players but there's not much battle going on....it's more coop.
so what kind of battle did you have in mind?
If you are not too far into developing it I have some awesome ideas, good luck. Can't wait!
Well you're at the right place man, share them if you want :)
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's no such thing as pitch changing in flash so I would have to record all the notes. Flash's sound system isn't that great to handle many sounds, you probably noticed even in POM1 some clips are off sync. On a note by note basis it would be hell. But I'm adding a new kind of box to "cut" the current riff so it will help structuring the songs a bit better. but it will still be clip based.
there should be bass and vocals (by voals I mean srcreams and stuff)as well as drums rythm and lead.
Bass is there....vocals....maybe :)
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!
the tab generator is alreay there
Set design, maybe :) do you mean like...customize the place where you play?
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!
Some good suggestions dude
Clip selection: I'm going for 40 riffs for each instrument.
Song length: It will now be doubled, so it's like 5 minutes, Should be enough.
Vocals: Yeah it's not really doable but I like your idea of putting it in the guy's riff list instead of a new vocal tracks. I'll see what I can do, some screams and Oi! could be nice but I'm not sure it's worth the headache.
Bass is definitly there but I added a tool to lock it to the rhythm guitar if you don't care about it.
File size: it WILL be big haha
Background music: I won't get rid of it come on...it would be boring as hell without it. But like in POM1 you can turn it off
Other environments: Yeah especially in the concert mode? But customizing the jam room should be there too. Not sure.
More demos: Yeah definitly. In POM2 they're called Covers
Career mode: It will be more about making songs and playing them live to earn money and fans. And you're not one guy but 1 whole band that you create, customize and make concerts with. There are no stores but you can fully customize your characters but you need to buy each little part.
Suprise: Fuck yeah haha
Thanks for the lenghty comment. Some good thoughts in there
Cheers man :)
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!!!
I plan to make a bunch if possible
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...
You're not gonna see the P dude and the penguin anymore though, they are copyrigted and I wanted to make POM2 completely copyright-free.
This comment serves as additional motivation
haha....thanks ;)
because you didn't wanna make the escape game I have to work on POM2...sigh...haha jk
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.
yeah there's a big character customization part
The pic thing would be weird haha
yeah little clips here and there....sounds good
mini games...yeah....dunno....I already have a game to make haha
cool, good luck making it.
Thanks :)
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
exactly haha sigh....bunch of slackers!
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!
yeah I know people want a bunch of other styles....but it's punk-o-matic so it'll stay punk :)
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.
Haha....so you just say a couple words and expect to trigger some crazy ideas from me :P
nice try...I'll see what I can do about BAAATTTLLLEEE!!!!
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
Yeah, my choices would be trance-o-matic or metal-o-matic...and it would be like Children of bodom, would be awesome :)
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.
I'm sticking to punk
and you can already start from anywhere in the song in Punkomatic 1
I hated people who can't read the help
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...
There will be a bass this time.
But no penguin stoners, the postal dude and the penguins are copyrighted and I'm not putting copyrighted stuff in this one.
I may try something with some vocals but I don't think it's worth it
have fun passing time hehe
Kanti
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 ^_^
Evil-Dog
Yeah...I know there are other genres haha but it's punk-o-matic so I'll stick to punk