MetaFilter posts tagged with game and music

Anyone can make music.

empath — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:33:54 -0800

iNudge Is a software music toy that lets you create and share short snippets of music.

This balladry makes me spoony

grobstein — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:27:15 -0800

Final Fantasy IV remix project. This week the videogame music rearrangement site, OCRemix.org, released a new project covering Nobuo Uematsu's soundtrack to FFIV (originally FFII in the US). FFIV's was the first game soundtrack I fell in love with, back in 2nd grade. Maybe you feel the same. The musicians have generally eschewed crowd-pleasing statements of the original's iconic themes, which is . . . bittersweet. Try

this cafe-vibe take on Rydia's theme,
this rhythmically fractured version of the sweet "Welcome to Our Town,"
"Into the Darkness" transposed and remade as "Step into the Light,"
or this slight, anti-triumphal take on the series's traditional victory fanfare.
And here is the "Theme of Love" made up as what sounds like classical guitar.

All FFIV remixes on OCR. All OCR album projects (I recommend the Street Fighter project, which was used for the soundtrack to the "new" game, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix).

Dear Sweet Crap I Suck At This Game

tehloki — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:51:49 -0800

Fire up your NES emulator and get ready to ROCK, chiptune-style. 4 whole songs! It's D-Pad Hero. The controls are pretty visually explicit, but if you don't get it: If a circle comes down the left channel, hit the A button as it crosses the line (ala guitar hero). Ditto right channel, B button. If the circle has an arrow in it, hold that direction on the d-pad (or keyboard) while pressing the button. This game causes severe left-brain right-brain confusion, and don't be ashamed if you fail horribly at first. Also, it may cause you to unlearn how to play Dance Dance Revolution.

Flash Friday: Auditorium

closetphilosopher — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:54:03 -0800

Auditorium is a musical flash game where you influence a stream of particles with gravity-based nodes. A steady stream of particles past a collector enables a layer of music. Good fun! Via Jay is Games

Like, OMIGOD!

carsonb — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:34:51 -0800

80smusicvids.com - Like totally bodacious collection of over 1000 music videos from like the raddest decade. Choice. Bonus, dude! Retro video games like flashacized.

Candy for your brain

JimmyJames — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:58:06 -0800

Surf your music. Audio surfer is a new game that uses .mp3 files to create racetracks of musical goodness. If guitar hero and F-Zero had a love child, this would be it.

bits are fun

flatluigi — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:41:47 -0800

The Top 5 Game-Inspired Music Videos (via, with one more) Videos: Architecture in Helsinki - Do The Whirlwind Junior Senior - Move Your Feet Cadence Weapon - Sharks Xiu Xiu - Boy Soprano Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

The candied dots of an angry God

klangklangston — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:43:31 -0800

Fuzetsu Fire bullets by manuevering your pixel as close as possible to the shots fired by the enemy in the center. Requires Java Runtime Environment. (Since there's no sound, here's a sharity blog whose music would provide an excellent soundtrack: Curved Air.) Game via Jay and Good Experience.

Pianolina

jann — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:29:32 -0800

The Pianolina - an addictive flash game - is something like a cross between Pong and WolframTones. Brought to you by Grotrian, piano manufacturers since 1835, the pianolina visualizes musical notes as little squares that chime when they bounce against each other or against a wall. Its sophisticated interface lets you add chords, gravity, or start with the basic notes of well known compositions like Beethoven's "Für Elise".

DJ Format featuring Abdominal & D-sisive

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:56:42 -0800

Witness the Whiteness as borderline-albino Canadian nerdcore MCs kick it Konami-school [Windows Media/Quicktime; more]

Video Game Music (with orchestras)

Tlogmer — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:58:08 -0800

Video Games Live, a game-music-with-orchestra concert tour, has gotten lots of press; videogame music's gettting new attention.

xoc - SMW

Pretty_Generic — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:46:03 -0800

SMW - The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo.

NSFQW (Not Safe For Quiet Workplaces)

Fourmyle — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:17:46 -0800

Name that tune in the UGO Music Challenge. Available in three delicious flavors: Rock/Pop, Hip-Hop/R&B, and Movie Music.

Video Game Music

riffola — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:25:29 -0800

Video game music is designed to heighten tension, and get you involved in the game, but it's come a long way from the days of Pong, now we have a single video game generating a 4 CD boxset & a greatest hits CD. Game Music Home, one of the first sites dedicated to gaming music is still preserved online. Now there's even a game music database and sites like GameMusic.com, VGMusic.com, etc specialize in selling video game soundtracks. Here's a brief timeline of video game music. Of course with original songs like "Taxi Drivers Must Die" (lyric), how long before we see a video game song on the Billboard charts?

adamms222 — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:52:59 -0800

Infinite Wheel is a fun interactive dub music playground. If you have speakers, enjoy!

ggggarret — Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:33:28 -0800

see a cool game, nice sounds.

Baud — Thu, 09 Mar 2000 23:47:50 -0800

Everybody can be a rock star First there were guitarists, then there were people playing the keyboards. Now with your keyboard you can play the guitar. Don't forget to thank the Rockschool when you pick up that Grammy.