Desperate to learn who the developers were behind this!
Skrillex Quest
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I find Skrillex derivative. It's like Chicane with extra noise. Dubstep can be awesome however.
Skrillex is derivative but Chicane is original. That's a new one. I say this as a fan of both.
Never said Chicane was original. They're both derivative.
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#53What I find perhaps most fascinating about this is that it's almost certainly an advertisement (note the iTunes link at the end of the game, and the tagline at the bottom that the creator makes 'advergames'). If it is, in fact, an advergame, it's awesome to see folks like Skrillex (and/or Skrillex's marketing folks) willing to build something so cool and of legitimate artistic value to try to build up viral buzz.
Yeah, this definitely puts the Avoid the Noid games to shame
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#54Disclaimer: Personal Tidbit I love electronic music. But, I can not get into Skrillex or American Dubstep for that manner. I feel like im missing something...
The correct term for what you refer to as "american dubstep" is actually Brostep. Dubstep was invented in Europe in the 90s and came out of the early techno scene. The shit these douches are making in California is completely unrelated.
Interesting. I've always thought that Dubstep was a mutation which came out of the acid -> hardcore -> garage -> grime lineage in the UK.
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#55Disclaimer: Personal Tidbit I love electronic music. But, I can not get into Skrillex or American Dubstep for that manner. I feel like im missing something...
The correct term for what you refer to as "american dubstep" is actually Brostep. Dubstep was invented in Europe in the 90s and came out of the early techno scene. The shit these douches are making in California is completely unrelated.
I really hate to be a "genre pedant", but Dubstep is a descendant of garage, dub, drum and bass and a few other styles from the very late 90s early 00s in England. "Early techno" is Detroit in the 80s.
If you're correcting someone on nomenclature please be more accurate, and if you're trolling, please be funnier.
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#56I hope this site brings a little boost back to the Flash world, especially with Stage3D and all of it's possibilities.
Actionscript 3 was such an enjoyable language to code in, though I haven't been able to use it professionally in over a year due to demand; the extent of my 'interactive' work has been hacky, ill-performing CSS3 transforms, and WOW are they limited.
It's been all JavaScript, all the time, and I do love the community but then again I really (really) miss the rich immersive creativity that used to be so inspiring on the web.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Skrillex is derivative but Chicane is original. That's a new one. I say this as a fan of both.
Never said Chicane was original. They're both derivative.
Obviously every song is in some way building on other previous works, but there are degrees of originality and contribution above and beyond the building blocks that a song draws from. Some songs seem to be just "beautiful component" + "harmonious other beautiful component" = "pleasant synthesis resulting in more beauty", while others seem to be "beautiful component" + "rotting vegetables" = "pretty rotting vegetables"...
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#58Wow. This is tremendously well done! I was very pleased to get the Contra code right, too. :D
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#59I hope this site brings a little boost back to the Flash world, especially with Stage3D and all of it's possibilities. Actionscript 3 was such an enjoyable language to code in, though I haven't been able to use it professionally in over a year due to demand; the extent of my 'interactive' work has been hacky, ill-performing CSS3 transforms, and WOW are they limited. It's been all JavaScript, all the time, and I do lo…
+1 to this.
These days I do Objective C, but I still love AS3 & the Flash API. I just wish browsers would implement it natively (a JS version of the API), as opposed to the HTML canvas and (currently) flaky support for audio.
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#60I am the only one that thought the game was making fun of Skrillex? I thought all the noise cubes were supposed to represent his music..
I think not. If it is making fun of him, it is doing so in Some way that required active participation by Skrillex himself, because...
WARNING, POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT: If you beat the game you see a video clip of him that is specific to the game.