Re: Music

Hi,

I'm a co-author on the Free Gamer open source games/gamedev blog and volunteer moderator on Open Clip Art Library, OpenGameArt and Freesound.

On 17.09.2013 10:27, Николай wrote:

> I was wondering if there is a need for soundtracks for games you are

> making? I'd like to try creating a soundtrack for any game, if there is

> a possibility.

You could offer your help on OpenGameArt forums [1] or submit your work on that site.

Please consider Markus' comment on licensing though. Remixes or "re-interpretations" of proprietary game soundtracks can't be free to use without permission by the copyright holders.

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Markus Koschany <apo@gambaru.de> wrote:

I think there is definitely a need to replace some sound files in games
maintained by the Debian Games Team because of license restrictions thus
your initiative is most welcome.

Are there known games in Debian with license-problematic game data? I have contributed to various projects to eliminate copyright/trademark problematic data in the past (SuperTuxKart, Trigger Rally) and would be glad to do it again.

I was thinking about creating a "games-music" package myself that
includes a couple of free music files of different genres. This is
mainly because I have to replace the whole soundtrack of M.A.R.S, a game
I intend to package but I think other packages like foobillardplus could
also recommend or depend on it.

Having the same music in different games is not desirable to players or game creators.

I would instead recommend to seek varied replacement from OpenGameArt's Music section [2].

Cheers,

Iwan

[1] http://opengameart.org/forums/audio

[2] http://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?keys=&field_art_type_tid%5B%5D=12

@all: Please let me know if there is any interest within the Games Team
to create such a general free music package, then I would propose some
tracks from Jamendo and take Hans de Goede's list into account. [1] Of
course we can still update the package with new and different songs later.

Regards,

Markus

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2013/07/msg00079.html