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Hey,

like we have discussed:
please post your favorite  musical episode / musician to appear in the game.

We can also collect more than five and start a poll afterwards if you have that many great ideas :)

I think the difficulty should increase with each new level. So we could start with reggae and end with heavy metal. It's guitar hero, so I think metal is a must have.

Ending with some mean speed or thrash metal will definitely make for a very nice "final boss" feeling. I know some guys who play in thrash metal bands, they'll certainly give us a piece of their music to use in game.

My suggestions:

- The Surfer Dude:

I love surf music, some friends of mine play in a Surf band, they will absolutely give us one of their tracks for the game: http://www.myspace.com/monokinialder (http://www.myspace.com/monokinialder)

Also, surfer dudes from the 50s are the hippest kind to ever have walked this earth. Also, a beach is a nice setting and can take every kind of puzzle there is (Imagine: Death on a cliff, offshore, while performing a stunt with his surf guitar in his hands)


- The proud Country rebel

Mainly because I'd like to have a setting where Eric can make full use of the infamous drunk mode and a scrapyard. A scrapyard with an old man and some dogs on it is always fun, isn't it?


- The Titanic Fiddler

We already discussed that, but way to present it again: One of the violin players that sank with the Titanic has also entered the nimbus with his fiddle in his hand - lots of sonar map ship finding and diving fun for all!


- The slightly confused Gentleman of Dodecaphonism

Just because twelve-tone music is so outrageously great. Go Arnold Schönberg!

I forgot to mention that we actually need someone who can compose all this stuff ;)

Therefore Dodecaphonism (looked it up) sounds awesome, but Arnold Schönberg is already dead :D Also it's a really tough job to reduce this music to 5 possible notes. Anyway I'd really love to have a classical piece in the game.

The metal theme's also great and it's a pro that Sebastian knows a band which can deliver some tunes.


My addition is:
- yankee doodle piper boy
Imagine a civil war veteran open air museum and maybe exhume a corpse (that always popular :D )

About the composition stuff: Our sound department can provide anything. Really. If I team up with David, there is literally no musical style we can't come up with, and also I know so many people in pretty good bands - don't worry about that, really.

Heh, okay I'll stop immediately ;D

New Skype Ideas:

- musician (banjo, violin) on a sunken mississippi steamer 1900
- Janis Joplin 60s
- Buddy Holly flight crash somewhere 50s
- Fats Waller 20s
- Gram Parsons 70s (Redneck junkyard)
- Lucius 80s

Missing: 30s, 40s: female singer? Female instrumentalist? Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Rockmore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Rockmore) <---

Pretty clever setting - we're only missing a drummer... and ta-daa: Eric :)


edit: According to this list, Gram Parsons would be the current arbiter. Anyone thought about this?
It still would fit, of course.

Ha, that's great. A spaced-out psychedelic arbiter, it will be lots of fun writing dialogue for him. And fighting him, of course. And maybe redeeming him, making Lucius the next arbiter?

Would we then use real songs from that persons or "unreleased" songs of them = selfwritten in the same style?

As far as I get it, these people are just archetypes, so yes: self written in the same style :)

Ok. So, who is going to be the final battle? Lucius? Some 80s Bowie style song would really work as final-boss-song...

I guess it depends on who the two decide to fight: Lucius or the Arbiter - so it would either be 80s wave rock or 70s southern psychedelic rock.

As long as it's rock I'm happy! ;D

Since a DB-crash deleted some of our posts, I'll try to remember what i had written:

Dirk sayed he would like to start with the Mississippi (hooray for consonants!) episode and my concern was something like:

I think this episode should play ON a ship. Maybe some historic steamer. There could then be puzzles like winding something up on the wheel or stopping the ship on the spot where the previous ship has sunk,...
But we can't take the Nimbus on a ship. I already had the idea of getting some MIDI-wireless interface on one of the other locations. This way Eric could play on the ship while Ashra is driving the Bus on the riverside.
So I think the Mississippi should not be the first episode because we don't have the interface yet and also Ashra will not be there to help us and give explanations.

We can make it non-linear and leave the choice to the player.

So we offer location A and B and when both locations are completed Ashra finishes the mobile NimBUS so they can reach location C, which is the steamer.

Sounds good to me :)


To gain some variety I'd like the first three locations to take place during daylight if it's fine with you.

Good idea!

Just brainstorming about what the other locations might be:

- musician (banjo, violin) on a sunken mississippi steamer 1900 (daytime or sunset)
- Janis Joplin 60s --> Hippie community (daytime)
- Buddy Holly flight crash somewhere 50s --> middle west countryside (daytime)
- Fats Waller 20s --> Chicago Jazz club (evening/night)
- Gram Parsons 70s (Redneck junkyard) --> have to park the car in front of a hydrant to get towed to the junkyard?
- Lucius 80s

Well, technically, the Fats Waller episode has to be the first one, since it takes place in the motel *cough* - of course we could visit a run-down jazz club to maybe get something we still need (we are still following the system of: nestor + presonal item on earth + place of death + NimBus, right?). His hat maybe? The cloth he wiped his sweaty face with? Mila will be able to tell Eric where the jazz club is (she has visited it before) where his "relics" are kept in a kind of shrine; this will make for nice distraction and/or dialogue puzzles. It could also be a firs topportunity to play as Mila, because they won't let Eric enter the club without shoes, and he refuses to put some on.

                                                            B
So the non-linearity would look like this: A - | - D
                                                            C

A few reference examples I googled in the meantime, for cat's location ideas:
A 1924 steamer:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/12/ss_catalina_rip.php (http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/12/ss_catalina_rip.php)
Late 19th century one, plus some other wrecked boats (cool site btw):
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/sos/naufrages/002031-2150-e.html (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/sos/naufrages/002031-2150-e.html)
A 1905 steamer:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/3948087657/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/3948087657/)
Reina Mercedes, late XIXth century:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_cruiser_Reina_Mercedes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_cruiser_Reina_Mercedes)
A sunken steamer in a neat, very backgroundish position:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39379959@N08/4627337214/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39379959@N08/4627337214/)
Two images from the crash site (modern times, but I don't think this area has changed much since then):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HollyMonument.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HollyMonument.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GlassesSign.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GlassesSign.jpg)
Not much to google here, but this site has a cool hippie bus photo:
http://juliannefshsourcebook.blogspot.com/2009/12/20th-century-street-trends.html (http://juliannefshsourcebook.blogspot.com/2009/12/20th-century-street-trends.html)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/TALHZi_gqwI/AAAAAAAABOk/lhvpn89TjEI/s1600/ChicagoJazzAge.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CVIA3ybuYho/TALHZi_gqwI/AAAAAAAABOk/lhvpn89TjEI/s1600/ChicagoJazzAge.jpg)
A modern picture, but quite inspiring:
http://www.discoveredartists.com/artwork/view/19991/Andy%27s+Jazz+Chicago (http://www.discoveredartists.com/artwork/view/19991/Andy%27s+Jazz+Chicago)
Priceless lore:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/jazzmaps/maphome.htm (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/jazzmaps/maphome.htm)
http://www.jazzfm.com/2009/06/the-history-of-jazz/ (http://www.jazzfm.com/2009/06/the-history-of-jazz/)
Not sure what that's exactly about, but here are some of the more fascinating countryside junkyards:
http://mcclanetirade.com/p/tumor-cycle.html (http://mcclanetirade.com/p/tumor-cycle.html)