Radios

[vagineer1]

I was thinking about some games where the city or planet is lawless, some of them have radio stations (Like GNR from Fallout 3). What if the Rimworld had a radio station that you could build a radio to tune into? When you turn it on it will replace the main background music for as long as the radio is on.

[Bog]

While I think it'd be a cool idea, but there's a big problem. With large games like Fallout 3 they have quite a large budget for music and sound effects in general. I imagine Rimworld does not, so making a bunch of extra music and radio announcer voices, etc. would be difficult, and I think an unwise use of finances.

With a mod doing it on the other hand someone could make it so that the system will look at your music files, so a player who downloads it could hear music they already own on the in game radio station. Of course people could just turn off rimworlds music and turn on a music player in the backround for a very similar effect.

[vagineer1]

While I think it'd be a cool idea, but there's a big problem. With large games like Fallout 3 they have quite a large budget for music and sound effects in general. I imagine Rimworld does not, so making a bunch of extra music and radio announcer voices, etc. would be difficult, and I think an unwise use of finances.

With a mod doing it on the other hand someone could make it so that the system will look at your music files, so a player who downloads it could hear music they already own on the in game radio station. Of course people could just turn off rimworlds music and turn on a music player in the backround for a very similar effect.

I was just thinking of pure music, no radio announcer (Unless Tynan himself voices him). Something to listen to when the games main music gets a little old. I was thinking of Cowboy Bebop western style music.

[Bog]

Yeah, don't get me wrong I think it'd be really cool. I just don't know what it costs Tynan to get Alistair Lindsay to write and record music for the game, but I imagine it's not too cheap considering that studio time is expensive to begin with regardless of who's doing it and in this case it's a guy who's worked on some pretty big name games before.

[BetaSpectre]

Listen to FTL.
Bam

[StorymasterQ]

Have a radio built that can take music from a folder on your computer. Bam, any music you want.

[porcupine]

Listen to FTL.
Bam

Thats a fantastic tie-in, especially since there are numerous potential parallel's and tie-ins to FTL that people can come up with/have suggested/etc.

[Bog]

Whistle a tuneless... uh... tune to yourself
BAM!

[vagineer1]

Listen to FTL.
Bam

Thats a fantastic tie-in, especially since there are numerous potential parallel's and tie-ins to FTL that people can come up with/have suggested/etc.

The thing that makes Rimworld and FTL vastly different is that Rimworld's lord prevents Faster Than Light travel whilst FTL's does not.

[Shinzy]

Listen to FTL.
Bam

Thats a fantastic tie-in, especially since there are numerous potential parallel's and tie-ins to FTL that people can come up with/have suggested/etc.

The thing that makes Rimworld and FTL vastly different is that Rimworld's lord prevents Faster Than Light travel whilst FTL's does not.

Still would be cool if a derelict cryosleep pod crashlands in your colony
and violent mantis named charlie bursts out =P

[Somz]

Hmmm, Cowboy Bebop. Is it time to re-watch it yet?...
Anyway, I approve of the radio idea, and having some...code or what getting the music from your folders isn't half-assed either, but it'd be cool if the radio would have the bad-speakers-quality, you know, for the feels, like actually listening to a radio. Besides, it's possible that melodic death metal isn't exactly befitting Rimworld's universe, more western style musics would be better... x)
I for one often think about the Borderlands games playing Rimworld. ^^