My first level

MY first level was going to use the track "my violent heart" by nine inch nails.




but its not going to be for two reasons my first is that I think having a rock song as the starting point might put them off and make poeple just dismiss the game as just another sidescroller. The second reason is that thease music boxes dont work the way I want them to. Check out this demo of a "my violent heart"

http://jackuchu.net/mediajack/plectrum/platform024v8.swf

as you can see when you enter one box the music plays fine but if you have another box inside that box and you exit one of them both peices of music stop.

I tried to figure out a solution but after many atempts at trying I figured the best thing to do was to leave it and concentrate on getting a level finished, conviniently that decition coinsided with me hearing this song on a friends Ipod.



Hide and seek by Imogen Heap, a perfect song to use as there are distinct gaps in the audio which I could cut up and place in difrent music boxes.

I found this live version of the song on youtube, seeing her extravegent set up is pretty cool you can tell she has telent cos shes doing it all on her own. I chose to use this version of the song in my game as it has a piano section that I think would add variety to the gameplay.

heres the video:



I ripped the audio from the youtube video using http://www.flvto.com/

I put it into premiere and cut it up adding short fade in and outs where apropriate, then put it in the game.

and here it is: http://jackuchu.net/mediajack/plectrum/platformx06.swf

heres a version with the music boxes visable http://jackuchu.net/mediajack/plectrum/platformx04.swf

These music boxes play the audio once and then dont play them again. The rotating stage was inspired by "and yet it moves" that I saw on the 1up GDC 2008 show I posted a while back. The audio that plays while the level is directly on the timeline.