Music for Tome4
This page contains slight spoilers in regards to the different zones that exists in the game. You've been warned.
Rules
- Must be legal (CC typically)
- May not include words (though vocal sounds - orc impressions etc. are fine)
- Can't be too edgy (ie. lots of people with varying taste in music must be able to listen to it) aka avant garde.
- Heavy jazz, death metal, drum solos - hopefully you get my drift
- Recording must be of acceptable quality (this vague, but it should be nice to listen to, not just "hmph ok")
- Add more...?
Issues
So far I've got a few songs that I like enough, that are CC (attribution, non-derivative, non-commercial). I am unsure if non-derivative would include- Changing it to .ogg -legally clearly ok.
- Changing it to mono, and or smaller bit-rates (for smaller file sizes) -legally clearly ok.
- Using it in a game - not sure if the artists really envision this for their music initially, as some artists might not know of "free games" -dubious legality but often overlooked for non-commercial projects
- Renaming it (though surely it would!) -legally an absolute no, and if this is done you will probably be asked to remove it from the game as with my comment on point 3.
This is a preliminary table for the tracks. I'd like a list of 2-3 tracks per zone (Different Zones can use the same music), but don't know if that functionality will be in the engine soon. Generally the music is of a high quality, and a lot will be suited to Tome, however that game may not want other projects to use their music (understandably so).
For consistency in the sound/music quality, I would recommend that we restrict the number of artists generally.
| Song | Zones | Artist | Permission | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anne_van_Schothorst_-_Passed_Tense | Bree | Anne van Schothorst | Yes | ||
| Lee_Maddeford_-_01_-_Ouverture | Trollshaws, Bree | Lee Maddeford | Yes | http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Maddeford/ | The song has a bit of background noise where audience members coughed and sneezed :-( |
| Azog's March II | Amon Sul | Jice | No | http://roguebard.eptalys.net/song.php?id=8 | |
| gillicuddy_-_04_-_instrumental_2 | Wilderness (if I can) | Gillicuddy | No | http://freemusicarchive.org/music/gillicuddy/ | |
| A Lomos del Dragon Blanco (To Loins of the White Dragon) | DG put it in Moria | Carlos Saura | Yes | http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/carlosaura | Rock maybe for Battles |
Other notes
http://javacrpg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/javacrpg/jClassicRPG/media/audio/ a fairly big collection. Everything in this collection is CC of some sort. That game is a 3d RPG and is therefore only somewhat related to Tome. In terms of sounds I am pretty sure we can get most of it without making the games sound the same.