Music making with Electroplankton: a tutorial
by Vladimir Cole 
{ Jan 16th 2006 at 6:29PM }
Sure, this tutorial is a good five months old, but none of us really paid it any attention until we got our hands on Electroplankton for our own dang selves.
Composing with Electroplankton, part one
Composing with Electroplankton, Part Two - Luminaria
Serious music geeks only, please. Electroplankton is a music-making application, not a game, as Mile Zero's Thomas reminds us. "Gamespot has no more business trying to review Electroplankton than Keyboard Magazine should be reviewing Dance Dance Revolution," he writes.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cyberfelon @ Jan 16th 2006 7:39PM
"Gamespot has no more business trying to review Electroplankton than Keyboard Magazine should be reviewing Dance Dance Revolution,"
How unbelievably condescending. What about the fact that he has no business telling people who should and who shouldn't review games? Electroplankton is a fun musical toy aimed at gamers, not first-class music snobs, and GameSpot has every right to review it.
Joey Geraci @ Jan 17th 2006 1:15AM
K, I think it is a stupid comment too, but Electoplankton is most definitely not aimed at gamers. It is one of the pinnacle games aimed at non-gamers, I would think.
Dionysus @ Jan 17th 2006 1:21AM
"a music making application" that doesn't save your creation lol ... smooth one nintendo.
Frexy @ Jan 17th 2006 5:30AM
Mm, for the record; the intentionally didn't add the saving feature so the players of the 'game' are forced to let their imagination work all over again. So it will keep their creativity going..
It works for me at last, though I've been saving some work though, with help of a little thing called AUX cable ^^;
BlackYoshi @ Jan 17th 2006 7:01AM
That "reasoning" for not having a save function is ridiculous. If you make something cool, you'll probably never hear it again without a bunch of accessories to transfer it to your computer, and you can't share it with your friends.
Levi @ Jan 17th 2006 12:51PM
I can't wait to play this. Though it isn't getting glowing reviews, I have this feeling that in ten years, every gaming publication will cite this game as groundbreaking when discussing games as art. Is this the first game that is intended to be art? I know that there are many games that should be considered works of art (Myst, POP, Shadow of Colossus), but I think this is the first game that is intended to be considered art.
Thomas @ Jan 17th 2006 2:17PM
The full series is actually available at http://www.milezero.org/index.cgi/gaming/society/art/composing_with_electroplankton_toc.html. There are five parts, but it's probably stalled now.
First commenter, if you think that's arrogant, please don't take a look at the rest of the site.