Castle Paradox

[Moogle1]

2 hours per minute for a piece of average complexity. Longer if you want something fully orchestrated.
_________________

Slime Salad :: Independent Game Design

[FyreWulff]

[Rya.Reisender]

Kinda greedy those composers. I mean let's say 8 hours work per track. Then 20 tracks are a month full time job work. For me that's worth around $5000 at max.

But seriously who expects to be paid when working on a free amateur game? -.-
_________________
Snippy:
"curt or sharp, esp. in a condescending way" (Oxford American Dictionary)
"fault-finding, snappish, sharp" (Concise Oxford Dictionary, UK)
1. short-tempered, snappish, 2. unduly brief or curt (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

[jabbercat]

[Camdog]

[Rya.Reisender]

Other people work 8 hours 5 days a week, why should composers not? They are just lazy bums then.
_________________
Snippy:
"curt or sharp, esp. in a condescending way" (Oxford American Dictionary)
"fault-finding, snappish, sharp" (Concise Oxford Dictionary, UK)
1. short-tempered, snappish, 2. unduly brief or curt (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

[Moogle1]

Because they don't have that much work lined up for them. There are a lot of professions like that. Actors also work on and off.

This is the most judgmental and awful thing you've said.
_________________

Slime Salad :: Independent Game Design

[Bob the Hamster]

Yay! Fun math puzzle time!

* Lets assume that there are approximately 6,700,000,000 people on earth (according to wikipedia)

* Lets assume that every person sleeps exactly 8 hours a day, but for the other 16 hours they want to be listening to music the *whole* time

* Lets assume that nobody ever wants to hear the same song twice in their lifetime

* Lets use Moogle1's estimate of 2 hours of composing time to produce 1 minute of music

* Lets use Rya's estimate of 8 hours 5 days a week for the hard-working-composer's workweek.

And there is the puzzle: How many hard-working-composers does it take to ensure that everyone on earth can listen to music 16 hours a day without ever hearing a repeat?

* We will also assume that distribution of music is automatic and magical. Once the composer has composed a song, it becomes magically available directly to the ears of anybody on earth who hasn't heard it yet.

[Rya.Reisender]

So they are lazy bums so that more composers can do the composer job? xD
_________________
Snippy:
"curt or sharp, esp. in a condescending way" (Oxford American Dictionary)
"fault-finding, snappish, sharp" (Concise Oxford Dictionary, UK)
1. short-tempered, snappish, 2. unduly brief or curt (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

[Camdog]

Wait, do you mean each person would never hear a repeat of a song they already heard, or no two people would ever hear the first song? If it's the former, we'd need a mere 30. If it's the latter, it's impossible by an order of magnitude (6,700,000,000 * 30, or 201,000,000,000 composers!)

(Yes, I really took time out of my work day to figure that out)

[Bob the Hamster]

[Moogle1]

It's also worth pointing out that it's not even feasible to come up with good songs every day of the week. Let's suppose you're a career game designer -- are you going to come up with an awesome new game idea every day? Every week? Even every month? (Hint: No)
_________________

Slime Salad :: Independent Game Design

[Rya.Reisender]

Well I could probably come up with a good game idea every week if I include all the cool game ideas I dream of.
_________________
Snippy:
"curt or sharp, esp. in a condescending way" (Oxford American Dictionary)
"fault-finding, snappish, sharp" (Concise Oxford Dictionary, UK)
1. short-tempered, snappish, 2. unduly brief or curt (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

[jabbercat]

[The Drizzle]

A little anecdote about picasso (quoted here from http://drawn.ca/2006/08/25/how-to-charge-a-client/)