Still Alive Performed on GMod Piano
October 17th, 2007
Stay with me here, I had to look a lot of this up myself:
Crazy emmer effer called FPtje on YouTube has used the Valve Source engine and GMod (yeah grandma, that’s like, a sort of sandbox add-on thingie built using the Source SDK…er…which is kind of like a, um, forget it, never mind) to create a playable piano within the Half-Life environment, on which he plays along to “Still Alive” in this here video, seemingly BY AIMING AND FIRING HIS GUN. In theory I understand what’s happening here, but I’m not sure I would be able to explain it without reading from the post I just wrote. Holy shit, when did I fall so far behind?
Anyway, it’s awesome. As Mr. tje (or perhaps Ptje?) points out in his YouTube post, “It’s hard to play a piano with a gun!” I couldn’t agree more.
I have to say that’s pretty darned good. Hats off to the both of you for your imaginative work.
Not even a miss in the whole song ! I’m making a note here: huge success
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Huge success! Yeah, LOL!
“Still Alive with a gun”…
Hey, I could use this video to learn to play this on the piano! Not that I can play the piano.
Very impressive!
Give that player some delicious, moist cake!
Great, now I have the song stuck in my head again…
Seriously, though, that’s impressive. In a baffling, edge-of-reason kind of way, but impressive nonetheless.
And the cake is still a lie. Still a lie…
All the keys played with a tiny puff of smoke, but I found it particularly eerie to watch that F Sharp. Smoking.
> Great, now I have the song stuck in my head again…
I’ve had it stuck in my head since I first heard it a week ago.
Great work FPtje and great song Jonathan.
Excellent work once again Jonathan! Such an awesome song!
As for the video, I wish I could aim that accurately that fast. Would be helpful when getting swarmed by antlions. xD
Hi JC-
Beautiful song. I can’t even wrap my mind around how this guy made the piano, with the gun, and the music–well, I might as well be grandma when it comes to computers these days…
Underneath all the layers of impressive digital rammajamma, essentially this is a really gorgeous song. I love it!
Now get off your Blackberry and fix yourself a snack. You deserve it!
I have had that song stuck in my head since I beat the game on the 12th. I’m ready to jab a screwdriver in my ear to end the torment….
I wondered how long it would be before the GMOD people got a hold of portal. Not long at all…
Awesome song, ending an awesome game. Now where’s my screwdriver?
That’s as impressive as the song itself. I gotta grab me some add-ons for GM10.
If there is anything better in the Gmod universe than this, then shoot me.
@Lash2828: but if they shoot you with that gun, which note will you play?
Wow,it’s amazing how this works, I have trouble getting objects to not glitch into walls.
Wait you’re the maker of the original still alive?
oh whoops
AWESOME!
ps where is my previous post?
Oh I think my previous post didn’t get on your site…
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Sorry for the double post…
the original post had:
It’s awesome that you have my song on your blog.
Why does you blog have more comments than mine? (I now found out why
You can download my vmfs with the piano here:
http://fptje.blogspot.com/2007/08/fix-for-fptjes-vmfs.html
I actually didn’t know this video was going to be a success knowing that it doesn’t sound very good…
Portal transformed into a Flash game:
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/12/portal-transformed-into-a-flash-game
I *have to* get the real thing!!
My 12-year-old made me listen to the song last night on YouTube, and I hunted down the composer here. Brilliant work. NOW TELL ME HOW TO GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD.
And now this video…playing piano with a gun. There is hope that I can yet foist piano lessons on my son. Can’t wait to show him after school.
“Son you really need to learn to play the piano with a gun!”
That thought made me laugh
What about a shotgun or rocket launcher? I mean there were no specifics on what type of gun.
Awesome song and some nice shooting. Did you do the shooting in real time or slow the speed by half and play it at a more reasonable pace, because if not I would never want to go head to head with you…. ever. I would be singing this song then as I would be corpseifying.
In real time.
I’m that good, but I train with it every single time I put my server up. And I notice that when you joined a server and then play a gmod piano then it’s much slower and harder to play than when you put your own server/singleplayer up.
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Somebody give that guy some achivement points.
Hey half-life Gun piano a series of tubes,
Where did you et that information?
that was a triumph!
Epic win. This person wins an Internet.
Here it is on regular piano.
http://1337g33k.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/still-alive-portal-theme-song-on-piano/
Two major keys
D and F
There is something about feeling real keys on a real pia with your real fingers. But if this is the way you get your kicks, so be it. Cute!
it’s hard to overstate my satisfaction!!! you did very well!!!
can’t even wrap my mind around how this guy made the piano, with the gun, and the music–well I notice that when you joined a server and then play a gmod piano then it’s much slower
This guy deserves a platinum.
Studying piano:
the piano was made in Hammer (that’s the old piano, the new one is made in Lua) Hammer was a mapping tool, but there was a method to put half maps in the game.
The weapon was scripted in Lua, the scripting language in Garry’s mod.
MAYBEY BLACK MESA….. THAT WAS A JOKE HAHA fATCHANCE!
OMG, this is hilarious, how in the world did you not record this video before… Jaja…your next challenge should be to play a violin or something jjaaja..
I’ve got to show my friend this, jaja..omg I cant stop laughing..
Cheers bro!!