Still Alive Performed on GMod Piano
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.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:48 am
I have to say that’s pretty darned good. Hats off to the both of you for your imaginative work.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Not even a miss in the whole song ! I’m making a note here: huge success
October 18th, 2007 at 3:02 am
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October 18th, 2007 at 3:08 am
Huge success! Yeah, LOL!
“Still Alive with a gun”…
October 18th, 2007 at 3:35 am
Hey, I could use this video to learn to play this on the piano! Not that I can play the piano.
Very impressive!
October 18th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Give that player some delicious, moist cake!
October 18th, 2007 at 11:13 am
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…
October 18th, 2007 at 11:29 am
All the keys played with a tiny puff of smoke, but I found it particularly eerie to watch that F Sharp. Smoking.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
> 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.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
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
October 18th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
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!
October 19th, 2007 at 9:49 am
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?
October 20th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
That’s as impressive as the song itself. I gotta grab me some add-ons for GM10.
October 21st, 2007 at 5:25 am
If there is anything better in the Gmod universe than this, then shoot me.
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:28 am
@Lash2828: but if they shoot you with that gun, which note will you play?
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:26 am
Wow,it’s amazing how this works, I have trouble getting objects to not glitch into walls.
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:49 am
Wait you’re the maker of the original still alive?
oh whoops
AWESOME!
ps where is my previous post?
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:54 am
Oh I think my previous post didn’t get on your site…
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 :D)
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…
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:10 am
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!!
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:59 am
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.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:52 am
“Son you really need to learn to play the piano with a gun!”
That thought made me laugh
October 29th, 2007 at 12:18 am
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.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:42 am
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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October 30th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Somebody give that guy some achivement points.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Hey half-life Gun piano a series of tubes,
Where did you et that information?
November 7th, 2007 at 2:00 am
that was a triumph!
November 7th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Epic win. This person wins an Internet.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Here it is on regular piano.
http://1337g33k.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/still-alive-portal-theme-song-on-piano/
November 10th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Two major keys
D and F
April 15th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
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!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:17 am
it’s hard to overstate my satisfaction!!! you did very well!!!