{"id":357,"date":"2009-08-28T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2009-08-28T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T21:25:21","slug":"arvale-short-tales-for-iphone-almost-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/arvale-short-tales-for-iphone-almost-done","title":{"rendered":"Arvale: Short Tales for iPhone almost done&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/arvalestbox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358\" title=\"arvalestbox\" src=\"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/arvalestbox.jpg\" alt=\"arvalestbox\" width=\"101\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just finished editing all of the new dynamic music tracks (which resulted in over 70 files) for the <strong>iPhone<\/strong> version of <strong>Arvale: Short Tales<\/strong>, and I&#8217;ve been awake for 40 hours or so.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I never mentioned I was working on <strong>Arvale: Short Tales<\/strong> for the iPhone&#8230; so I guess I&#8217;ll post a bit of info on it&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p>All that&#8217;s left is, um&#8230; to implement the music into the game, again. I would go into the technical details of how much of a huge pain in the ass that will be (switching from xm files to mp3 files for dynamic music), but honestly, I don&#8217;t want to \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>By <em>dynamic music<\/em>, I mean music that changes -whether as a variation of the melody or similar- depending on the state of the player (similar to how<em> iMuse<\/em> system that <strong>Lucasarts<\/strong> used in their games). For example, when a character opens a door and enters a new area, the music will flow<em> seamlessly<\/em> into the new theme, or when the player enters a battle, the melody stays the same, but you get a steroid-injected, pulse pounding battle version of it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also modifying the story quite a bit, as we&#8217;re planning on pulling the 4 main characters apart to release them as separate games. This will hopefully result in a better player experience overall. The first character\/game that will be released should be <em>Varju<\/em>, the Druid character.<\/p>\n<p>More details later, when I have more sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished editing all of the new dynamic music tracks (which resulted in over 70 files) for the iPhone version of Arvale: Short Tales, and I&#8217;ve been awake for 40 hours or so. Oh, I never mentioned I was working on Arvale: Short Tales for the iPhone&#8230; so I guess I&#8217;ll post a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":2843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,107,38,6],"tags":[75,443,2639,444,2644,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arvale","8":"category-development","9":"category-iphone","10":"category-music","11":"tag-arvale-short-tales","12":"tag-dynamic-music","13":"tag-games","14":"tag-imuse","15":"tag-iphone","16":"tag-lucasarts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaybot7.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}