Theme/Mood ? | Project Porcupine | Forum

Post edited 10:44 pm – January 16, 2012 by Briarstone

It's kind of hard for me personally to think of music as either 'light' or 'dark', but I think I understand. The music should be thematic and fit the scene perfectly in order to fully immerse the gamer.

I honestly hope that we don't do the whole Bard's Tale type of humour, where every other line is a cliche or joke, or have to use kazoos or rim-shot aspects to push a joke (I guess that should be rectified in the way of good writing). Yet, at the same time, I do hope that we can have moments of grandeur, or some happy-bonus-round type environment that would be all triumphant horns and cymbals. In fact, I hope there will be a place for all types of thematic scores, from the waterphone to the steel drums, from the 'dark' to the 'light'.

I want ALL THE THINGS!

EDIT:

I see that a music thread has been started, so I will answer the Theme/Mood part of this discussion with the following question:

How many planets are we going to have? That's how many moods I would like to see implemented. In short:

I want ALL THE THINGS!

What if we have the main character breaks the fourth wall like Deadpool? The world around him is usually serious, but he knows he's in a comic book and he's the only one who sees how ridiculous some things are. The NPCs/story would be serious, but the character would know he is a video game character controlled by the player. We can have the character note that the dice rolls aren't going his way, yell at the player to push the H button so he doesn't die, or complain about the designer using too many polygons on his ass.