(idea) In game musical cues

UnwardiI·7/20/2016, 4:59:15 AM·1 votes·748 views

Think this belongs here, anyways...

So, I had this idea when I was playing with a DJ Sona. You know how the track changes as she levels her skills (and I think as she casts them, but I'm not sure on that one) well what if the regular in game music did the same thing.

Now, I am a musician myself, and I do a shit load of work with loopers, so I know that this is a possible thing to do even with none "electronic" music. The new champ select music kind of does this already, but it's got sort of bridge ques that can kick in at nearly any measure without sounding increadibly jaring, and it would be easier to program the kinds of things I'm talking about because a lot of them are based on set timers.

So for instance, what if there was an extra percussion line that only activated once the second dragon spawned and that would bridge into a more intense part when your team started to deal damage to dragon so as not to alert the enemy. Same deal with baron, at 20 minutes the entire score could change to one of increasing tension. It would ramp again for the team starting to take baron and when at team HAS baron buff, it would be at it's most intense and would only tapper off again once all the members had lost baron buff again.

Same deal for elder drake, it could even be a subtrack of the baron track allowing them to be played one at a time or both together on top of the post 20 minute track.

The game FTL does this throughout the game. Every track of that game has a subdued and intense parallel. When you're in combat, the intense version of the track is playing, when you're out of combat, it's the laid back one. Dragon and Baron base tracks would be that and the "Dragon has spawned" would be another sub section of the laid back track.

But then, you could also have an entirely separate team fighting track which kicks up the tempo and the tension and gets more and more intense or desperate as your team either wins or loses the fight, shadow of the colosus style with a "revived power" type of fan fare at the end if you get an ace.

I know you have composers and shit working for you Riot and the in game music is in desperate need of some de-suckifying. I mean, it's functional, sure, don't get me wrong, but this would be so much better.

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