A charas project community game?

[Darkfox]

Hm... some MP3 encoders cannot go below 40kbps. I recently tested with my encoder. And the least I can save with is 40kbps. But I can do 8kbps, which sounds horrid, and 16kbps which sounds a bit less horrid. XD 48kbps gives a relatively small file size and is not so bad.

[Shady Ultima]

HOLY CRAP!

ALEX??

Well, we have to finish this now!

But seriously, how goes it Alex?

I do agree about the MP3s being beter quality and better sound. If we can make them small enough then lets do mp3s

[Darkfox]

Here's the comparison:

a 2 minute 11 second song in 320kbps is around 3.62MBs, but at 48kbps it is 770KBs.

a 4 minute 12 second song in 320kbps is around 7.41MBs, but at 48kbps it is 1.44MBs.

I think that is quite a big size difference.

[Alex]

@DF: mine can go down to 20kpps, however as you shown also 48 would produce reasonably smaller files as well, and with reasonable quality.
I don't really think for this demo a ST like Chrono Cross's one will be produced, and in any case i personally would not yell for a 100/150 MB demo if it will be good enough to justify it (including sprites and music).
So i confirm my opinion is that usign all MP3s and no midi should not be any major issue.

@Shady: All is fine here!
As usual i don't post much, but i swear i'm following this thread since the beginning.
It's a pleasure to see the community game project on the road again, so many years have passed since i tried to call for the community contest.
Every time i look here, and even if i'm pratically a non active member, there's something that surprise me in amazing ways.

Can't tell what is it, i think the only "reason" for that feeling is that Charas is still something... different. I still see a strong identity here, created by you all. For this very reason, to see a working Charas Community Game would really be the best thing ever to see.

Damn i'm so low in time, i would really like to do something too... perhaps some music?

[Shady Ultima]

Of course, we'd love to have a contribution from the original member of Charas!

And Charas is a very unique board online in the way the people interact here. It's much more friendly and... there is a sense of comradery here. I mean how many members who have left continue to return for visits or come back and stay for a while? Few to no other boards have a community like this one.

[Darkfox]

In any case, glad to see a post from you Alex! I'm glad you checked up on my project as well. Which I plan to update soon now that things are not so hot.

And yes, hearing some music from you would be pretty sweet. XD

[fruckert]

Well, that's a "must finish" stimulation, if I've ever seen one.
*goes and hurries on story*

[Alex]

It would be nice to join, but can't force anything.
I do have literally hundreds of files and ideas, so the best would probably be to let you hear something that's already out there, somewhere.

A first old bunch can be found here:
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/en/musica.php
By clicking on the yellow harp icons, you will have a 30/40 seconds demo of each song.
In case there's a demo that sounds interesting, i can provide the full versions.

Other possible themes, even if still incoplete, are these:

http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/jungle.mp3
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/renbaya.mp3
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/reminder2.mp3
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/sweet.mp3
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/harpsycho.mp3
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/harpsycho2.mp3

I do also have many more stuffs and also of different genres, but the first thing is to understand which kind of genre you are looking for.
Just let me know if some of the above meets your expectations, just to have a direction.

[fruckert]

I really like Harpsycho, both of them...the second one sounds fit for a boss battle.
Jungle...doesn't sound very jungly to me.

Altogether, I really like them...I'm pretty sure the others feel the same.

[Alex]

Hehe... Jungle does not sound jungly, as well as sweet does not sound that... sweet.
Those are just names here in my PC, so often the filename has nothing to do with it's content 
About this, some other tunes with even more cripthic names:

http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/track2.mp3 (this may be good to be looped)
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/axel2.mp3
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/alex10-2.mp3
http://www.alexander-bonivento.net/amici/aa.mp3

Up to you now!

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Sorry for the disappearance something came up and had to attend to it.

Im gonna see if i can have a finished version of "Cody".

And guys with Alex her,e supporting with more than his presence, you basically got the game handed in a silver platter. If not golden.

[Shady Ultima]

Yea, we CAN'T give up this time!

And it's all good, I knew you'd be back.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Hm, how do you loop an mp3 without it going back to the beginning then?  Or are we just going to have to be more creative?

EDIT: Was the song I posted okay?

[Shady Ultima]

AFL, I'm listening to it right now. It's awesome. I really like it a lot.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Thanks.  I'm never sure. =P