LiveStream, February 1st, 2013

Great livestream guys. The music sounds AMAZING. Love the different tones with the orchestra music. Howard Mostrom is pretty cool and he definitely knows what he's doing for the music to go well with the game.

Yes my ingenuity worked!

Finally got to tune in live! But I don't think my data plan is very happy about it! xD

Mike

The stream was amazing. *surprise face*

I want an EWI now.

awesome!

Thanks to everyone who paid attention!

Sorry I didn't mention the Uber Cannon but we were trying to keep focused on music.

I'll forgive you if we get a Commander focused Live Stream! ;p

Mike

All this music already gets me pumped up to play PA

The first piece sounds like something from close encounter of the 3rd kind, the part where they were communicating with the aliens through music.

Hopefully, this is a good place to make questionably reasonable requests of Howard:

One of my favorite pieces that's climate/biome specific is Phendrana Drifts from Metriod Prime. It really conveys cold. I'm hoping for a similarly frost-bite invoking theme for barren ice planets.

What I heard was damn good. I'm looking forward to hearing it fully realized. The TA soundtrack was big, brazen, it fit perfectly, and it's something I still listen to at work. From what I can tell, Howard's going to give it a run for its money.

Yes This I think Commanders and some more Artwork/model stuff should be the focus of the next Live Stream and plenty of references to the Uber Cannon

This. Howard is awesome!

Howard, I was mostly interested in the very last tune that you demonstrated. That is exactly the kind of epicness I would want for Planetary Annihilation. The former ones, IMHO, could be more along the lines of that. But still, I am very impressed. It is even going to sound better ochestral!

Thanks for an awesome live stream!

Awesome livestream and very interesting!

May I suggest playing Epic_Victory on the Planetary Annihilation start screen? What a welcome that would be! To start up a game and hear such a glorious thing!

excellent update! Loving the examples given so far

I'm really liking the idea of some heavy metal guitar riffs. Big heavy metal can mesh well with orchestra and choirs so it'll fit in nicely. Also really liking the idea of working in chiptunes!

I'm gonna post a time-stamped link to the awesomeness because it's that awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_lUYyGVtZY#t=28m15s

The music samples were amazing.

Ok one BiG question I never saw asked, even with all the discussion on planetary musical atmosphere and such

but, how are you guys going to handle scenarios where the player has two windows open, and switches regularly between them? Say if you have 2 planets to manage and you've got a window open for each one... and many other variants on the problem?

Whichever way works best?

I recall that in TA for example the music tracks could switch out based on the intensity of the game. Are we going to have something similar?

For example, could we have say the overture going in a slightly infinite loop and advance to it's more battle oriented portion of composition when the battle heats up?

Also thank you both for that, I really had an enjoyable time listening to it.

IIRC, when you zoomed out in Civ 5 the music changed to reflect you are in space and got louder the closer you zoomed in.