Random Music Generator
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Random Music Generator
Brief
Games often need a large amount of ambient music to create a mood and yet be fluid enough to change as game parameters change.
To this end, a program is required that given a set of parameters to describe the required general sort of output, a tune can be programatically created.
Considerations
While MIDI is the bane of many, it would provide a good starting point as most, if not all, computers have a midi controller which will save you from pitching sounds and many other related issues, so ... consider the use of MIDI.
Music streamed or pre-cached from the game server...
Program certain areas/events/times/etc to trigger changes and shifts in the mood/stlye of the music
This would also make new in-game music available to users without forcing them to download a new version
Cons: probably won't very scale well with low bandwidth or lots of users at once...
In Progress
