Author Topic: A couple things  (Read 2155 times)

kirikitten

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A couple things
« on: January 12, 2008, 04:53:51 pm »
First off I want to say that this game looks amazing as it is currently. You all have done a great job on it.

On to the problems!
  • When entering an email for my account I wasn't able to add an underscore (_) and I know a lot of emails particularly within the yahoo and hotmail domains use underscores. I ended up using an alternate email my husband uses.
  • When using any Pointman character if you continue to hold left click it will "destroy" any other blocks you come across after the first without some sort of penalty. It neither replaces your held block with the new one or adds the block to your stack. It just disappears. I think perhaps if the scooper ignored blocks after the first and allowed those blocks to enter your lane stacks or replaced your held one that would be great.
  • While this was mentioned on another thread I do think that the sound effects should have a preview when you click them. I haven't tried the others yet because I don't really know what they are.
  • Do you think it would be possible to add in some sort of loading screen or splash screen between the menu and actual song? Currently after it loads my song and I'm prepared to start playing it I just watch a black screen until the distant track comes up. The first time I played I almost thought it crashed.

Also, while I don't consider this a bug, it's a little weird: if you play anything called unknown - unknown you're taken to a monstrous scoreboard at the end of the level with everyone who has ever played a song with no author or title tags. I'm pretty sure they're not the same song ;D. Maybe those ones should be ignored? Ah and one last thing: I think you should be able to type in the name of the author and title of a particular song in case the tags were just wrong or missing. Maybe after the song plays before you go to the top score listings.

That's all for now! I'll come back with more if I find anything.

--Kiwi

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Re: A couple things
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2008, 07:16:56 pm »
-You're right about needing to support underscore.  Thanks.

-I like that idea. The Pointman scoop should probably have no effect if the queue is full.

-Agreed. You can change the sound effects by hitting ESC while playing to try them out without having them for a full song though.

-Good thinking.  I'll put "Loading..." up after you click play so people don't think it crashed.

-Unknown-Unknown should probably not show any scoreboard at all. yep

-I want to eventually identify unknown or mistagged songs by comparing their track shape to that of songs the Audiosurf database already knows about.

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Re: A couple things
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2008, 08:05:45 pm »
You could also use Gracenote or something similar to tag songs that have no names.

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Re: A couple things
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2008, 08:34:46 pm »
It uses MusicBrainz, but that only works for CDs (and then, only for full commercial albums).

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Re: A couple things
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2008, 10:27:54 pm »
Well I had a program that would record a song from a stream and save it into an mp3 then tag it with gracenote, so I'm guessing gracenote can tag about anything...

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Re: A couple things
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2008, 10:55:38 pm »
That sounds nifty. I'm hoping to rig up something similar on my own eventually. They don't reply to my emails.