Hey there! My real name is Marco Arsenault, I've been making music and games for a while now, I hope you enjoy my stuff ! In fact I order you to enjoy my stuff! :D If you wanna join the Punk-o-matic community, come to punk-o-matic.net and register
Age 43, Male
Game Programmer
QC, Canada
Joined on 11/10/02
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?
yeah you can load POM1 songs in POM2 and with the bass, you can use a "lock" box to lock it to the rhythm guitar so you'll get your POM1 song sounding cool with the POM2 sound and bass.
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.
I'm not sure what you're talking about
one like the first and then the actual note bar?
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?
I don't know where people get the idea that punk music has piano or keyboard....it doesnt hehe CoB is metal....this is PUNK-o-matic...
there was already a skip ahead in POM1 to start the song from anywhere...
and yeah you'll be able to preview the riffs in the riff selector and on the music sheet.
I don't think I'll support start a riff from the middle....maybe....I'll think about how that would work....but there's a riff cutter that can stop a riff in the middle without starting another riff.
Cheers
how many insterments are you puting in.
not sure what you mean...if you mean the number of people in the band it will be 4
drum, bass, rhythm and lead
if you mean the number of instruments you can buy, there are over 100 guitars and basses, many models and many colors for each model
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
No code for you and no screenshots :) I know I'm cruel
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
you love assholes...I see hahaha
there will be different concert venues so that should satisfy the need for different backgrounds
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
I don't know what this has to do with punkomatic 2
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.
are you talking about my audio submissions or punkomatic 2?
in both case it's no :)
theres gotta be some guitar solos and more tracks for each instrument...and maybe different speed settings...and a bass player..
yeah, speed variation is not possible in flash though
oops didnt read the other comments about the bass..never mind
hehe ok
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)
I think you'll be pleased with the stuff in punkomatic 2
the soft/hard slider isn't really doable but I'll have smooth riffs :)
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)
www.punk-o-matic.net will be the official community where people can share songs and rate and review people's songs.
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)
haha fuck yeah
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.
you're easy to satisfy :)
one suggestion i would make is to be able to export your "song" as an MP3 maybe?
as an external application yeah
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.
The career mode is indeed like Guitar Hero / DDR.
yes, things like different tempos or effects are not possible because flash doesn't have an audio processor. it just plays sounds.
pom.net will have a song sharing system with the data, not actual mp3 songs
How about we create our OWN vocal tracks?! We can probably use a microphone to record it. So we can sing with our songs!
No vocals
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
an external application I'm working on
Punk-o-matic 2 wow this shit is gonna be hardcore
fuck yeah! :)
Nitoku7319
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.
Evil-Dog
you can load POM1 songs in POM2 and there will be tons more riffs and double song length