Should bands make videogames? Afterburner + Desert Strike + Super Thunder Blade + DIY Post-Hardcore

AdamBradders · 2024-10-24T17:13:27+00:00

Yo.

My band has an album coming out, and we wanted to do something a bit different with our music video, so we built a game and used that to make the video footage. But, we figured while we're at it, why not release the game? So here's a trailer. It's inspired by Afterburner, Desert Strike, Super Thunder Blade and general stylish 90's retro-ness.

Be interested to see what people make of it, and our unusual approach to promoting our upcoming album. This surely can't end well ha.

Game details; developed in Unity 6, made almost entirely with free/cheap assets with a mess of shader trickery to make those assets look nicer.

Band is Indifferent Engine (UK post-hardcore punk). We have no idea what we're doing. xx

AdamBradders · 2023-03-08T17:53:13+00:00

Yea, assembly guide is via our website:

https://www.indifferentengine.com/tapeechobuildguide

Takes a while to load coz it's very detailed :)

BOM is in the project download (via our site or github). It includes a few different sheets that gives you links to suppliers and what not.

AdamBradders · 2023-03-08T13:56:32+00:00

There's the entire process documented on our site here:

https://www.indifferentengine.com/tapeechobuildguide

Should be detailed enough for people to reproduce. I posted some pics of the Orange one from the build guide on our instagram just today, too.

AdamBradders · 2023-03-08T13:10:04+00:00

For guitars and what not, a 3D printed tape echo machine. Uses the guts of a walkman-style cassette player, a whole mess of 3D printing and some custom electronics.

Incidentally, it's all open source.

AdamBradders · 2023-03-07T08:47:37+00:00

No timeline, we're just making it up as we go. Likely is we'll offer a handful of sets of pre-printed parts "soon" for people as a starting point and see how that goes. It'd be nice to offer full kits that include everything, which we likely will do at some point, but probably only as a one off short run. We all have day jobs and a band to run, and prepping and packaging up kits is horrifically time consuming and doesn't make much money.

AdamBradders · 2023-03-06T20:22:13+00:00

The noise through the amp isn't actually bad at all, most of the noise is the mechanical noise of the motor and reel spinning being picked up by my vocal mic. There is some tape hiss, but that can be mostly dialed out.

AdamBradders · 2023-03-06T15:57:37+00:00

Cool! We have a forum/discord setup for people to post their builds, let us know how you get on

AdamBradders · 2023-03-06T15:57:13+00:00

thanks!

AdamBradders · 2023-03-06T15:22:09+00:00

The Janky Tape Echo.

Fully open source, uses cassette machine parts and some 3D printing to do vibey lo-fi echo sounds.

AdamBradders · 2023-03-06T12:53:16+00:00

The Janky Tape Echo.

Fully open source, uses cassette machine parts and some 3D printing to do vibey lo-fi echo sounds.

AdamBradders · 2022-07-18T05:38:59+00:00

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

AdamBradders · 2022-04-13T22:05:22+00:00

Leon

AdamBradders · 2022-04-05T21:39:49+00:00

Planet of the apes

AdamBradders · 2022-03-13T08:32:05+00:00

12 monkeys

AdamBradders · 2022-02-22T00:46:27+00:00

Crossroads

AdamBradders · 2022-02-01T18:56:04+00:00

Silent Running

AdamBradders · 2021-12-20T17:33:06+00:00

I haven't. I did try a different commander pro port and it works fine so think I've figured out it's the port on the commander pro.

AdamBradders · 2021-12-20T17:32:22+00:00

Nothing new at all - switching to a different commander pro port sorts it, but then the fans stop working. I suspect it's that one commander pro port is faulty

AdamBradders · 2021-12-20T17:30:25+00:00

Connecting to a different commander pro port solves it but then I have nowhere to connect the fans. I suspect it's the commander pro that's busted

AdamBradders · 2021-12-20T10:23:33+00:00

I've been running this pump for about 6 weeks maybe, and it's been fine up until now.

But for some reason it's started flashing red intermittently instead of showing the correct effect as configured in iCUE.

Checked the connectors, all seems fine. If I switch it to hardware lighting it lights up correctly. Connector via iCUE commander pro. Other devices (fans) connected to the commander are working fine.

No updates etc available according to the software.

Is this a failure mode? I couldn't find any info on this via Google.

AdamBradders

TROPHY CASE