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lalalove is a work-in-progress music-making game using LÖVE game engine.

What is lalalove

• A game where you have to make planets happy by creating music via combining sound-sequences coming from stars and manipulating them with asteroids having different effects, such as faster/slower, higher/lower, or adding pauses.

• Still early work in progress

• Originally created for the overnight-contest of dusmania (2008).

• Made with LÖVE!

• Inspired by Celestial Music

Download

For Windows you only need one package (LÖVE & Lalalove are included).

Windows: lalalove_win.zip

For MaxOSX you need the GameEngine LÖVE and the Gamedata from Lalalove.

MacOSX: lalalove_macosx.zip

Linux & src: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/love/love-0.5-0.deb & lalalove.love

or

svn: public readonly svn : svn://zwischenwelt.org/lalalove/trunk dependencies : love 0.3.2+ ( win&linux : http://love2d.org/ )

Running

Windows: extract the lalalove_win.zip and start lalalove\Lalalove.exe

MacOSX: extract love-0.5.0-osx.zip and start the love App. Then drag and drop the lalalove.love or the extracted folder onto the love engine.

Linux:

from svn run: ./start.sh

or

install the DEB and start it with the Lalalove.love pack.

Media - Howto

Howto make music with Lalalove?

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  mainscreen

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  right-click on a Sun via mouse

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  to activate the Sun's sound (loudspeaker)

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  you can try out all Sun's

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  you can drag the Sun's, Asteroids, Earth around

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  left-click the green connector on a Sun

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  hold the left mousebutton and drag to an asteroid

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  release the mouse over an asteroid

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  left-click on an icon around the asteroid

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  left click on an icon around the second asteroid

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  right-click the Earth to hear your Music

You can disconnect a connection by clicking on the red (x) on the connectors. You can make connections between every asteroid, sun, earth like you want. To check a sound stream, right-click on it. This will make the loudspeaker available on this element.

Videos

• http://vimeo.com/1390711
• http://vimeo.com/1381849

example song

• http://sience.schattenkind.net/lalalove_sound.mp3 ogg

team

• sience
• qubodup
• moe
• hagish
• ghoulsblade

license

• code : ZLIB

• content (grafics,sounds) : public domain

(22.7.2008 : now confirmed by all team members)

forum threads

• http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=1343 (main)
• http://www.developia.de/forum/frage125068.html (german, developia)
• http://love2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=900#p900 löve forum, no own thread so far
• http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMENT/Simulation/Lalalove-40095.shtml

development

todo

• usability tweaking
• winning condition
• different levels
• descriptive icons for asteroids
• ways to manipulate asteroids

ui mockups

just some ui ideas: http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/wiki/index.php/Image:Screenshot-Lalalove.jpg

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  Game Screen

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