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Remixing now credits properly. Thanks Ninja!

Hi! I'm Bob, and I make RippleJam, a free browser game where strangers jam together on a dance floor. It has 24 zones, each with its own genre, and players tap along on pads in time with the zone's music.

The first zone with a real producer just went live: the Lo-fi zone now runs on music by Teøm, a producer from Lyon. His songs, his drums on the pads, and his own little bot at the door (that's him in the picture). I'd love every zone to sound like that.

I'm especially looking for Baroque and Piano producers because these zones have sooooo much potential.

Open zones: Baroque · Piano · Jazz · City pop · House · Techno · Trance · EDM · Chillwave · Chillstep · Trap · K-pop · Reggaeton · Afrobeats · Amapiano · Bollywood

How it works:

- Send stems of your own tracks, or single sounds (drums, bass, a melodic sound)

- Your name goes on the zone, in the game's credits and in our posts

- Non-exclusive: you keep all your rights and can use the sounds anywhere

- Unpaid for now. The game is free with no ads. If it ever makes money, we sort out payment with you first

- Only parts you made yourself, please, no samples from other songs

Play it: https://ripplejam.itch.io/ripplejam

Reply here or email play@ripplejam.io with the zone you want and a link to your music.

had a proper listen. it sounded like a burly man blowing air into my ear canals.

removed  ._.||

Fixed! Thank you good sire. I've got some interesting stuff to share this week hehe

Hi Mitch, thanks! Both are open. I’ve sent you a friend request on Discord (RippleJam), let’s chat there

Update: 7 of the 24 zones now have producers working on them (Lo-fi, DnB, Hip-hop, Disco, Phonk, Dubstep, Chiptune). Thanks to everyone who reached out!

Still open: Jazz, Reggaeton, Afrobeats, Synthwave, Chillwave, Bollywood, Amapiano, Baroque, City pop, Piano, House, Techno, K-pop, Trance, EDM, Chillstep and Trap.

RippleJam is a free multiplayer music game in the browser. Each zone has its own live music, and players tap along with it. You’d get your name on the zone, full rights to your sounds, and creative freedom. It’s unpaid for now, with payment agreed before the game ever makes money.

Reply here or email play@ripplejam.io with the zone you want and a link to your music.

Our discord : 
https://discord.gg/fSGvUeJhy

Thanks again dude. Fixed!

Hi Ariades, my name is Bob
I don't know how else to convey this but your help would exponentially contribute to the experience of what i'm building. I'm saying this because while listening to your track 16 Mariposas (Alt.) on Spotify, it gave me visions in my mind's eye of you composing this beautiful piece of music. First of all, thank you for making this. I hear in my soul the sadness, sorrow and loneliness. But also that it will be ok, that people have been through this path before and they survived. We will all emerge as butterflies. 
I made RippleJam, an online game with 24 different zones, inspired by the Camelot wheel. I'm currently looking for individuals like you who would be willing to improve the music of RippleJam. At the moment i'm working on getting this game in front of people. I am hoping that with better sounding music, streamers would be more likely to come onboard. 
You can try the game out to see if you would be inspired initially in any way at all. Even a comment about how it can be improved would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you Ariades!
my game website is : ripplejam.io
ripplejam's discord link : https://discord.gg/fSGvUeJhy 

Me too man it would be a game changer

Also took your advice and put some goals and design plans onto the game page. 

Thank you! 

https://discord.gg/n3kgNgVxq5 << Discord link to RippleJam! 

Building now a way to record in game but load it onto discord as an archive of sorts so it doesn't hog server space. 

Yes, eventually that is the goal! To have people upload their vibe and other stranger catching it and vibing together. 

PS: You got some sick beats man. 

Ah okay. I will make it fade out after a minute or so

Oops! Will try to recreate and fix. Thank you for finding it!

For the BPMs, every zone is currently linked and crossing from one zone to another would have a cross-fade effect. If you have earphones in, it's an auditory experience to have the L/R playing different tempos, but the brain is somehow able to form the middle link and become the conduit. It tickles a spot in my brain. 

The voting system together with the BPM changes will have to undergo an overhaul though. As most of the producers who expressed interest in contributing prefer to upload zone musics as a whole, rather than individual sounds which are then used and mix-in according to the current ensemble.  So the zones will eventually be detached from one another. Like Tomorrowland with 24 different DJ sets, as opposed to 1 giant living set. 

EDIT / ADDON: Sorry I realised I didn't answer your question. Yes you have it right, this is best we have for now until we get the musical folks to help. Other features get priority at the moment because it is highly likely that the current system will be discarded or archived. 

Is that why you go to the sides sometimes? LOL 

EDIT: Got an idea for this, a door that you go through that leads to the exact same map, but everyone else is faded so they look semi transparent, and they would see you as semi transparent. So you can see everyone else but be able to vibe hard alone.
Add-on: I don't know if this is possible but I will try; do you think it would be a cool idea if I could get all the audio in that setting to sound like it's in "the-next-room"? Like muffled, but you can hear it coming from next door. IDK it might sound good it might sound ass. 

YEAHHHHHHH

I did a thing. Go to settings, right at the top

: ^)

I think you encountered a bug. Trying to swat it now.

What you did exactly was launching one from ripplejam.io and the other from itch?

I will get this implemented. I know the frustration because I feel it too. Question is how is it going to look... INTERDASTING

I get what you mean, i'm trying to find a proper way to implement this without the UI looking so crowded, especially for the Looper. If you open it on mobile, the current layout is such that your sprite is just a small part of the screen. The record function automatically changes the layout and has some additional visuals though.

Saved for the workshop! Also working on getting some actual producers to contribute their loops or tracks so things are getting spicy

This is good. Potentially could make some sick beats. Will work to get this implemented

I was actually considering to move away from the hand-drawn stuff so that it looks better on social media. The silly art also poses a problem like that day with the penis DP. Some sort of filter would have to be implemented. 

Thanks Ninja, love that you keep coming back! Want to get this exactly right before I build it. When you say hit markers on the line in the Looper, which do you mean?

-Your recorded loop hits show up on the lane ahead of time, so you can see what’s coming and play around them'

OR

-A marker showing where each of your taps landed, early or late, that stays visible longer

OR

-Something else (a quick sketch or screenshot would be perfect)
 And should it be its own button, or always on when the lane shows?

Hey Zach, thanks! I had a listen and was grooving to your melodies, so yes, I’d love to have you on board. Which zone would you want? The electronic ones are EDM, Trance, Techno, House, Dubstep and Drum & Bass, but please take any that speaks to you.

Do you lean towards option 1 (your own loop sets, played as you made them) or option 2 (one-shots that the game plays live)?

What’s the best way to reach you to work out the details, email or Discord?

Edit : Sending you a friend request on Discord from RippleJam

Hi Itch.io community, my name is Bob and RippleJam is my game.

RippleJam has 24 music zones on one dance floor, from Phonk to Baroque to Lo-fi. Right now most of the sounds are made in code. They work, but real producers would make them special. A lo-fi producer has already signed on.

How the music works (it's not just a circle that plays a song):

• The floor is a Camelot wheel. 12 positions, two rings. Inner zones are minor keys and darker genres, outer zones are their relative majors and brighter genres. Neighbouring zones are a fifth apart, so every border mixes in key. 
• Every song is generated live. Nothing is a pre-recorded track. Each zone writes its own 3-minute songs on the spot, with real sections (intro, build, drop, break, outro).
• The key moves. The whole wheel turns one step every song, so a zone plays in a new key each time and every border still fits.
• The BPM moves. Each genre has its own tempo range or BPM (Lo-fi 70–90, House 118–128, Dubstep 138–142, Drum & Bass 165–177…). A playlist speeds up a little with each song, like a DJ set.
• Some zones are locked together. Trap and Chillstep ride Dubstep's tempo, Piano follows House, and Hip-hop runs at half of Drum & Bass. Walking across a border feels like a DJ mix, and with earphones on, L & R would play a different melody. 
• Players play along. In every zone you get an 11-sound kit (keys 1–0 plus Space for melody): drums, bass, chords and a lead, always in the zone's current key. Nearby players hear each other jam.

What we're looking for: two ways in. First picks: EDM, K-pop, Trap, Bollywood, Hip-hop, House and Dubstep.

1. Bring your sound. Send loops or stems that carry your signature, as 3–4 sets, each with its own BPM and key. Your zone plays them as you made them: no time-stretching, no re-pitching. Your zone steps out of the auto key-mixing wheel, and its borders blend in with a crossfade instead.

OR

2. One-shots and single notes. Drum hits, bass and key notes across a range, textures. These fit the live system as it is: the game pitches and sequences them into whatever key and tempo the zone is in.

• Credit in-game and on our socials, with your handle.
• Players jamming live with your sounds, around the clock.
• A clip of your zone in action to share.

The honest terms: it's unpaid for now, and non-exclusive, so you keep your sounds. Only your own original work, with no samples from other songs. You can pull your sounds out any time, and if the game ever makes money, we talk again.

Interested? Comment below with your genre and a link to your music.

Mouse movement is in! Your shape now follows the cursor (park it on yourself to stand still). Since you asked, the mouse got a couple of extras too: click someone to raise your hand for a high five, click the floor to comet-dash, and right-click someone to mute or hide them. Keyboard players use H and Shift. Thanks for the ideas good Sire. Man, you’ve shaped half the recent updates!


Edit:Bots will high-five you back if I’m not around 😄

Added a ✕ to clear one track, a volume slider per track, and the beat lane now shows while you loop. Let me know how it feels!

Ah, volume per track! Makes sense, adding it to the list with per-track delete.

Oh man good catch. The beat lane hides when the Looper opens. Adding it back so you can see the beat while you loop. Thanks for testing this deep, it really helps 🙏

Hold the track to undo layers one at a time. A proper per-track delete is coming.

For the name, press ‘Back to the floor’ after changing it. Did that work?

This is super helpful, thank you! Saved every point. Sounds are getting reworked zone by zone, Lo-fi and Trap first. The thing you’re after is already there: open the Looper and press Grid to switch beats on and off. (Is this what you had in mind?) And there’s now a Click box for the metronome 🙌

Thanks for playing!  Which zone had the sounds that felt off to you? Picking your own sound per zone is a great idea, noting it down.