News and announcements from That Authoring Group

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

My HD recorder should be here today or tomorrow. So if I manage to get it working right I'd say start looking for videos on Friday.

There will be a lot of them, but just be aware that some of these are in very early states and will most definitely get revised from the point you see them until release.

Once a song hits the stores we'll release a new video of final gameplay so you know what you're getting when you pick up the track.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

As promised here is the start of the preview videos!

Please keep in mind that all of these are works in progress. You probably will spot errors or charting gaffs that are not indicitive of what the final product will look like.

Now that the 'legal blabber' part is out of the way lets get onto the good stuff.

This was our first attempt at ZTO.

The theme of the album is that Ziltoid is 'breaking into' Rock Band and taking over the entire game. Removing control from the player and putting everything in Zitloid's control. Over the course of the album the player will fight against Ziltoid to regain control of Rock Band.

In the opening track ZTO, Ziltoid first makes his presence known, and the effects of him hacking Rock Band are the venue, characters, animation, and camera effects are all spazzing out from this unknown intruder.

We really wanted to make this track something that no one has seen before in the game. That included camera cuts in the range of 20 or so a second. The characters animating and behaving 'out of control', including animating and 'talking' when there are no vocal parts to cue them to do so, just be as unique as we could with this one to set the tone for the entire album.

This first pass we really went hog wild with the 'spazzing out' effects. It was deemed a bit much and this version was scrapped.

A new version has since been put together to tone back the spazz outs, and introduce the 'garbage vocal chart'. Where Ziltoid's effect on the game has some interesting phrases the players is forced to say to keep from failing out.

Here's the video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5UACDNHTEY

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

This is our second run at ZTO. The most notable change is the venue, lighting, and camera cuts have been really toned down. The second change is the introduction of the 'garbage vox'. Meaning that Ziltoid has hacked into the Vocal chart and is forcing the player to say all kinds of zany phrases to appease him. Of course the effect of him doing so sometimes spits out gibberish phrases the players has to 'sing' as well.

We felt there was too much of the garbage vox in this take, and it's going to get parsed down to only happen when there's no actual singing or Ziltoid himself isn't speaking.
As it is now when the player is speaking the garbage vox over Ziltoid it just seems to cluttered and busy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSSEmQchdMc
A third version is well under way.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

This was actually two tracks Sheeps Into Goats and Systematomatic that the band decided they wanted merged as the songs do flow right into each other.

This is our first run at this song. The venue hasn't been tinkered with yet, and we need to adjust the vocals to get them louder in the mix, but we thought we'd give you a sneak peek at the work in progress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loY1uIBMd1Q

If you haven't heard Rishloo yet you should definitely check out this preview video. Very Tool, Perfect Circle kind a vibe going on with the band.

[bengino]

well, not sure if this will get replied to or not, but in any case i figure i'll ask anyways, i was **extremely** excited when "Money Honey" was released through RBN in August and was wondering if you or anyone else had anything else from State Of Shock in the pipelines (not necessary to name songs, just a yay or nay will suffice for me)

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

I know we don't have anything by them at this time.

I'm not sure if any other authoring groups are working on more of their material at the moment, but there ins't anything up on creators from them right now.

The original authoring group was Tunecore. I'd contact them and see if they have any future plans for the band

[SmellMyFinger]

Can't wait for the Rishloo sneak peak to be processed!

[Lady Siara]

I'm very interested to see how Ziltoid turns out.

Not sure how I feel about the change from the first video to the second but I'll wait til the third to pass judgments.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

I'm very interested to see how Ziltoid turns out.

Not sure how I feel about the change from the first video to the second but I'll wait til the third to pass judgments.

Did you like the spazz out more than the garbage vox?

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

This is the final build for I Am King Tony's Stereo Stereo.

We had a blast working on this song, and we hope you'll have just as much fun playing it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP88GQd5es0

This is juuuuust about to pass peer review and should hopefully pop up in the music store early next week.