Stuff to finish before our first release

[Prophet]

I always envisioned an audio stream in which you can't skip songs, but you may mute the song if you don't like it until a new one comes on. Songs were streamed from a specific folder, and if the user preferred, he could automatically have this folder updated by connecting to a central server, which provided additional 64kbps MP3 (or non-proprietary alternative) sporadically. This would allow users to add their own songs, but also give the music a "radio" feel by streaming audio and coming out with new songs every once in a while. Then if the game developer decided to stop releasing music/updates the game would continue to run without any alterations, or perhaps even allow the game support to be picked up by a third-party by altering the server address.

I've always felt all PC games (and nowadays console games since everybody's online) should have this system for in-game music. By including a "remove file" script into your update you could easily add and remove songs, or even commercials, from the listeners audio stream.
The music options might appear as:
Enable Music: boolean
Volume: byte
Play in Order/Shuffle: boolean
Enable Music Updates: boolean
Music Server: xx.xx.xx.xx
Download Commercials: boolean
Don't Remove Old Music/Commercials: boolean

[Webmug]

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[kameelperdza]

Will there be a hardwar 2 soon?

[Andrew]

Will there be a hardwar 2 soon?

Right now it is a one man project. There won't be a playable game compared to Hardwar classic for a long time.

[kameelperdza]

Wish i could help but i dont know anything about programming, But i can help to host the game.

[Andrew]

Wish i could help but i dont know anything about programming, But i can help to host the game.

There's lots of ways to help. Even posting in the forum and keeping the community interested/together helps a lot.

[Nomax]

That's a great idea!

I think it wouldn't be hard to find artists that would create tracks inspired by the atmosphere of the game and would publish it under a Creative Common license.

By the way, I added a paragraph about this Hardwar remake on Wikipedia Hardwar page. Hopefully, this will enhance the popularity of this project.

[Pilot]

That is a nice idea Prophet, though I think instead of one folder have multiple folders for the music example,

Station/Folder 1 - Description
105.5 Hardwarp FM - Bringing your Titan's latest news 24-hours* a day.
[Rant}* incorrect timing, I'm not a mathematical specialist so feel free to figure out proper hours. According to Wikia it revolves takes 15 days and 22 hours to circle Saturn. Plausible fix; 24 ESH (Earth Standard Hours) Or any other synonym that would be usable.[/Rant]
92.1 Earther Oldies - Classics from the 1950's and 1960's.*
[Rant-2]* Hell name it Zefram Cochrane for all I care. If Star Trek can have a few Retro's like me surely Hardwar can have a folder/station.

[Rant]I'm going to quit think of names now because as you see that brings rants.[/Rant]

Basically I mean setup a few FTP folders, and have a user upload section.

Oldies - 50's 60's Soft Rock
Swing / Big Band Think 20's to 40's (I Love Lucy if you can't think of the previously mentioned.)
Metal
Rockn'Roll
Techno
Emo (I'm not sure the proper classification.)

Then assign random "ELF" numbers to the different music folders. (ELF instead of AM/FM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)#Bulk_characteristics - Titan ELF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency - ELF further explained.

This way users can select their "Stations" instead of getting songs that they will desire nuking Hardwarp FM off the air than listening to. Me personally I hate [C]rap and would be nuking the station off air ever time one came across the air.

[nirokugraphic]

Welcome Pilot,

we'd have to talk this over with Andrew and Infrahate but really I do not like where this is heading . By all means open it up to the possibility of players being able to mod/add what music they want to listen to during the game but for release sake there really needs to be something far more concrete in terms of score and mood - otherwise what is the point in writing a musical score in the first place ?

I would prefer not having default access to any sort of music that exists today that 'reminds' us of Earth . Titan is a totally unique environment separated and secluded from everything else - let's use it !

HardwarpFM was this eponymous entity that existed but didn't really have all that much weight in Hardw[a]r . This is something I at least feel needs to be different in our [hardwar] .