I have a Muckin' Great Clubbe....

[unixronin]

... for game designers who think it's a good idea to give a game four bars of music that just repeat.  Over and over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over.  And over....

And what makes it worse is when the game author picks something that you actually liked until you heard four distinctive bars of it a thousand times in a row.

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Most games for adults have pretty decent music. So far, ALMOST all of the examples I've encountered of "three to four bars repeated forever" occur in children's games. This particular example was the exception ... it's a more-or-less all-ages arcade-style game, Rocks & Diamonds, which is a PC port of several closely related arcade games, and the repetitive music is in only one of its variations.