This is a web based computer game. It’s purpose is to present live music with video streaming in a game type environment.
There are no winners or losers in this game. There are live streamed performers and guests who are in attendance at an event.
I recommend using the BRAVE browser. In tests it proved to be the smoothest game rendering experience.
The first time you enter the rehearsal club will be the longest page load.This is unavoidable. It will be much faster on repeat visits.
This is a web page with a canvas html element. It is not a console like gaming experience. This means that some may experience browser crashes when the internet is slow or unstable. I have built mechanisms that will restore your game play if this happens. You need to have browser cookies enabled for all this to work properly.
Building this Internet project was mostly a solo effort. I relied upon open-source software frameworks to do it.
I am the Software Developer, Game Designer, 3D Modeller, Animator and VC Investor.
This is akin to the old time radio world where one person would be the DJ, Producer, Salesperson, Newscaster and Owner.
I have decades of experience in radio broadcasting, live music and software development.
I think it is obvious that recorded music is no longer working for the independent artist. There is just too much of it. One can spend your whole life listening to the back catalog of recorded music and never be able to hear it all. We have witnessed the steady degradation of the recorded song as something people actually want to own. Technology formats kept changing such that they now pay the independent music artists virtually nothing at all: vinyl, cassette tapes, cd’s, mp3’s and music streaming services. It has been a long slope and it is always going downhill for the artist.
Speaking from personal experience, my first shows were in a live band music world where you actually played out 3 full sets each night (4 sets in Quebec). This gig booking was typically for 3 nights in a row, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. You were expected to be playing mostly your own material and you got paid with real cash money, not just beer tickets. Now just imagine that and compare it to where we are at now.
I want to find a better way. I want to offer a new way for people to hear new music, live.