Further reflections from a lunatic mind (apologies to Mel Brooks). I suppose I should have read *all* the threads before posting earlier. Having composed a few pieces of music myself, I've always started out with just a melody... a rough draft, if you will. The initial composition is always rather flat, two dimensional. Adding the harmonies and fills flesh out the piece giving it body, and extends it into, not only the third dimension, but into the realm of emotion. Having the melody line might help the modelers with their end, giving them inspiration on the layout of the age and machines therein, the programmers with the timing of mechanisms to possibly move in time with the beat, and the artists with possible tweeks to their textures. The finished piece, of course, would come at the end to tie everything together on an emotional level for the explorer.
What I'm trying to say, is that, while it may make initial collaboration a bit more time consuming, the finished product would be better (imho) than if each piece of the puzzle (so to speak
) were completed individually, and serially (story, models, textuers, programming then music).
Just my two cents worth.
"The truths of mathematics describe a bright and clear universe, exquisite and beautiful in its structure, in comparison with which the physical world is turbid and confused." -Eulogy for G.H.Hardy