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October 29th 2005, 04:03 PM
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Arik
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Obviously if you're multitalented and industrious enough to produce your own music then you're going to end up with more distinctive results. The same goes for the graphics. Of course, why stop there? Make your own game engine that's more ideally suited to your vision than anything else out there. If you can do all that in any kind of reasonable time frame then I'm truly envious of you, not least because you're probably about to sell it for big pocket money.

For lesser beings like me, midi music is extremely useful. It's availiable, it's applicable (Final Fantasy music is overapplied because it's easy to apply, and you know what to put where to achieve a particular mood if you're a lazy sod), it's doesn't exclude the player (you can't assume people have broadband - things get better every year, but some areas just can't get it yet), which pretty much makes it better than wav in every respect apart from audio quality. Can you even attach wav sounds to maps in Dinkedit? It doesn't really matter how much you dislike midi music, as far as Dink is concerned midi won't go away.

Of course, moving away from Dink (this is the off-topic section, after all), anyone with a website that plays a midi file really does deserve to die in a slow and excruciatingly painful manner, possibly involving power lines and sombreros. So I agree