Music for games

[Miriam Ruiz]

2008/8/27 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for the offer! ATM the trouble some games from Parallel Realities use
> modtracker format music. The blobwars maintainer is currently looking into
> replacing it with similar sounding modules from modarchive.org, which
> carries modules which match Fedora demands with regards to Free-ness for
> music, but is not truely Free music (no modification permitted).
>
> It would be nice to have really free music for blobwars (and others, but
> lets start with blobwars) esp so that it can be used by distributions with
> stricter licensing demands for music like Debian.
>
> If you download the blobwars sources from their website you will find a
> music directory there with various music files. We are basicly looking for
> music with the same feel. Also I don't know if you can do this, but it would
> be great if you could create modtracker music for blobwars again, as that
> has a certain feel (a certain cheesiness) and is very small.
>
> If you cannot do modtracker music we need to think thisn over a bit, as
> currently blobwars is only 8 MB, adding .ogg (mp3 level compression) music
> files to that is a huge size increase.

Hi Hans and Chris,

The Debian Games Team is following your steps in this, and fully
supports your efforts. If you need or want any help from us at any
point, just ask. We'd be very glad to do as much as we can.

Greetings,
Miry