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Quoting: Projectile VomitAs a struggling, professional musician looking to shop his music to video game and movie producers in the very near future, I've gotta say, this really sucks.

That's valid, and that was actually a big concern I had when writing it, however, I really feel it does fill a totally different niche from composed music and doesn't compete all that much directly. Frankly, it's nowhere near as good as quality music composed by a professional musician. I feel like if what your game needs is music, run with actual music, if you need editable procedural sound, this is an option. But, the overlap isn't too much I don't think. Thus far, the devs I've talked with using it are very small studios or solo devs, who weren't budgeted or in the market to hire for customized music.

And, large studios using procedural music still use musicians to craft the base of it, generally.
Anyhow, just my thoughts on it. I love the asset, but it fills a different role from what you do (and you do it better :P ).
It's basically the musical equivalent of procedural level generation. It fills a niche, but it's not the same as a finely crafted level.

I can respect that. I do understand being a small or solo anything and trying to get stuff done on minimal to no budget.

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As a struggling, professional musician looking to shop his music to video game and movie producers in the very near future, I've gotta say, this really sucks.

Oh well- that's another market gone for us. I guess it only takes the talent of Post Malone to produce music people will be content with.

Whatever.

Hopefully, there will still be companies looking for quality sound for their media.

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I started playing this game the moment Valve brought Wine to Steam. It's a really good game, if you like Diablo-esque RPGs. It does tend to crash a bit more than I like. It's still installed in my Steam games, but I don't play it because of that. I would probably be a regular for this game though, if they made it native and it didn't crash.

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I've experience a crash, any time I click play.

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Will be checking it out, tonight (hopefully). RPGs are my absolute favorite genre and I'm very happy to see more appear on Linux.

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Cthulhu's Grandbaby

I've been wanting to check this game out since you first mentioned it. I was a big fan of Spore.

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Getting this one! :o

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This game is amazing. Open sourcing it opens up a lot of possibilities for anyone with solid know-how and imagination. I look forward to seeing what sort of games this will bring about.

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Speaking of: What's the latest on Unreal Tournament? Is there a gui to run it, yet, or is it still run via bash script? I haven't heard much, lately.

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This looks like it might be fun. It's very much like the cellular stage of Spore, that just keeps going. I like it!

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