Weirdest tracker ideas I’ve had

Started by Amaroq Starwind, Yesterday at 06:08:13

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Amaroq Starwind

Here are some weird tracker ideas I've had over the years.
- Online-collab tracker: The Google Docs of trackers, essentially. I had this idea way back in 2013, maybe earlier, but I was still in high school. Shame none of the major cloud service providers are trustworthy these days.
- A tracker for on the SNES/Super Famicom: "Oh, like Deflmask or Famitracker, but for making SNES music?" Ha, wouldn't that be great? But my autistic brain decided to overcomplicate it with "how about making a tracker which runs *on* the SNES, like how LSDj runs on the GameBoy?", which would be a logistics nightmare because you'd need to make custom cartridges that feature additional hardware just to make the software somewhat usable.
- A tracker that is actually a game: This is actually my most recent idea... What if you made a sort of puzzle-roguelike using a tracker-style interface, obviously themed around tracker music?

Has anyone else ever had really weird tracker-related ideas like this?

Saga Musix

I wouldn't exactly call online collaboration a weird feature, and in fact it has been done way before any of today's popular online collaboration spaces even existed - in Impulse Tracker. I wrote my master's thesis about an experimental online collaboration feature in OpenMPT (which may see a return in an official OpenMPT build someday, we'll see), and there's some ongoing experiments with adding IT's network protocol to Schism Tracker.
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