Rock Band Party, Tuesday Evening, First Floor Rec Room

[glacial_queen]

Karla and Warren had celebrated their return to their proper forms in the way that many teenagers would find appropriate: they'd headed back to the modern mainland, found a toy store, and bought a gaming system (or three). Along with the games they bought to go along with said system, they also picked up a few guitars, a keyboard, a drum set, and two microphones.

Once back in the rec room, the rest of the afternoon had been spent setting up the systems and buying every single song available for the game. Waiting for them to finish downloading actually took longer than the initial setting up, even taking in Karla's attempts to 'help'.

But now the system was set up, the songs were ready, and the instruments prepared.

Fandom High? Get ready to rock.

[Open for anyone who wants to play. not_a_parakeet modded to an ungodly degree with permission! Just a warning about SP and Karla's threads--I will be AFK all day, but if you're willing to wait until Thursday that's fine by me.]

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[wwiii]

"I could probably fake some Bowie," Warren decided, after a moment.

So, Bowie was probably the stuff that his dad would have listened to. If his dad had ever been the sort to listen to music at all. It was a name that he'd heard before, so he was going on good faith that this meant that he could either fake it, or that maybe he'd actually heard the song somewhere and had just forgotten the title.

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

Bowie was classic! Of course, the cover version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wJ55y5p7T8) that was actually in the game was a little disappointing.

"This... so isn't actually David Bowie."

[wwiii]

"Well... no," Warren conceded. "It's..."

He had no idea who that was, with the terrifying CG Face on the screen.

"A game?"

That!

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but -- this totally isn't the actual track or anything. Couldn't they have taken the original Bowie track? This is, like, playing a cover of a cover."

[wwiii]

"Well," Warren pursed his lips a little. "There were probably some legal restrictions to take into consideration when they made the game. You have to pay royalties out the ears to actually use somebody's work, after all."

And, not that Warren had ever really looked into it, granted, but he was vaguely aware that creating a videogame was not cheap.

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

Marshall frowned. "But wouldn't it be just as expensive to get the rights to do the cover?"

Not that Marshall actually knew.

[wwiii]

"I... really don't know," Warren admitted. "Maybe there was some sort of programming thing to take into consideration. Or recording quality. Or having to break it up into the different... parts? Instruments? So that people can fill those in with their own?"

Again with, 'Warren had no idea.'

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"... I guess," Marshall admitted. "That sounds reasonable, anyway."

[wwiii]

Warren shrugged.

"It's like anything else out there. There's a budget to work with, and they've got to cut corners wherever they can, or they won't make it."

This, at least, was spoken from a businessman's point of view. That was far more Warren's speed.

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"I guess," Marshall admitted. "I dunno, it seems weirder to me that it would be more expensive to use something already recorded than it would to pay people to record a new version, but I guess I don't know very much about that side of the industry."

[wwiii]

"Well, when you stop and think about who it is that you're paying... Bowie can't possibly be as cheap as some no-names who want a quick buck, in a recording studio that the place probably already has. I mean, music is kind of a common thing that all games have, right?"

Warren and calm, cool logic, once again.

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"... True." Hmm. That made a lot of sense, actually.

"I wonder if there are any studios on the mainland looking for musicians?" Marshall paused. "... The normal mainland. Not, like, Regency London."

[wwiii]

"Game studios? You never know," Warren mused. "I bet they post job openings online, though. Pretty much everybody does, these days."

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"I'll have to check it out. Could be a good way to make some money." Marshall grinned. "After all, I've got university to think about next year."

And, hey, maybe if he gets a job away from the island, he won't a) give the school a cold or b) end up speaking absolute gibberish.

[wwiii]

"Oh, don't remind me about graduation in a year," Warren nearly groaned. "I've been filling out applications to Harvard and Yale and pretty much every other Ivy League school out there, and I don't know if I have it in me to put a stamp on each envelope and actually mail them out."

He doubted that Harvard would be half as open-minded about his wings as Fandom was.