JamLegend
Encyclopedia
JamLegend was a pay to play
, online, browser-based Music video game
, similar to Guitar Hero
.
As of April 29, 2011, JamLegend ceased all of its activity and closed the site. A list of the artists that contributed has been kept on the front page of the website.
In March 2009, JamLegend reached 5 million plays. In July 2009, JamLegend reached Version 1, releasing new features.
The closure came as a blow to the dedicated gamers from the site, and some even wrote poems and letters of goodbye. The blog stated that the community grew to 2M users and 110M plays, and worked with all four major music labels and independent artists alike.
Pay to Play
Pay to play, sometimes pay for play, is a phrase used for a variety of situations in which money is exchanged for services or the privilege to engage in certain activities...
, online, browser-based Music video game
Music video game
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...
, similar to Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It is the first entry in the Guitar Hero series. Guitar Hero was released on November 8, 2005 in North America, April 7, 2006 in Europe and June 15, 2006 in...
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As of April 29, 2011, JamLegend ceased all of its activity and closed the site. A list of the artists that contributed has been kept on the front page of the website.
History
JamLegend was created by Andrew Lee, Arjun Lall, and Ryan Wilson in 2008. The company participated in the LaunchBox Digital 2008 summer cycle. The game was in private beta from August 2008 to December 2008 when the players needed invitations to access the game. On December 4, 2008, JamLegend became open-beta so players no longer needed invitations to register.In March 2009, JamLegend reached 5 million plays. In July 2009, JamLegend reached Version 1, releasing new features.
Closure
On 29 April 2011, FooBrew announced that JamLegend will be closing to "move on to new ventures". From the 18th April 2011, VIP memberships could no longer be purchased, and on April 28 all user data was deleted. Users with leftover JamCash or months of VIP membership past May 27, 2011 may be eligible for a refund due to the closure. To find out more and to see if they qualify for a refund, gamers could go to the refund section of the website, which however currently just links back to the homepage.The closure came as a blow to the dedicated gamers from the site, and some even wrote poems and letters of goodbye. The blog stated that the community grew to 2M users and 110M plays, and worked with all four major music labels and independent artists alike.
Features
- Ability to play on most computers that have internet access. The only requirement is to have the Adobe FlashAdobe FlashAdobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
plug-in installed. - Two instruments to play: guitar and drums ("BeatJam").
- Multiple styles of gameplay: Guitar Tap and Guitar Strum. Guitar Strum requires the player to strumStrumIn music, a strum or stroke is an action where a single surface touches several strings of a string instrument, such as a guitar, in order to set them all into motion and thereby play a chord...
the note (which makes 2-, 3- and 4-note chords possible) and Guitar Tap does not need strumming. - Four song difficulties: Normal, Skilled, Insane and Legendary. In Normal, only three keys are used (1-3), then four in Skilled, and five for Insane and Legendary.
- Single- and multi-playing: there are three modes : Solo, Duels (player against player) and Showdowns (real-time multiplayer).
- Upload and play songs: (Song Uploader) Users can upload any song by any artist that they own from their computers. Players upload an mp3 and a track they create for the song to make a playable track on JamLegend. Free accounts can upload five songs maximum (100 for Pro, and 500 for Pro Plus), though self-uploaded songs are only playable in BeatJam, unless a track has been made for the song.
Account types
In Version 1.0, features such as "Pro" and "Pro Plus" Accounts were introduced.| Free account | Pro account | Pro Plus account | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uploads | 5 songs | 100 songs | 500 songs |
| Advertisements | Yes | No | No |
| Removing possible | No | Yes | Yes |
| Badge | No | Yes | Yes |
| Price | Free | $4.99US per month, (1st month is $1.99US) $29.99 per year |
$9.99US per month, (1st month is $1.99) $49.99 per year |
Available music
More than 1620 songs were available to play, as at June 2010. Some of these songs were automatically tracked by a computer program (this is the case for the BeatJam tracks), but most of the popular songs were tracked by trackers/producers.Services used
- The game is programmed in Java and Flex.
- The front-end pages are displaying the game with the Adobe Flash PlayerAdobe Flash PlayerThe Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other...
. - Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com...
are used for data storage. - The Get SatisfactionGet SatisfactionGet Satisfaction is a customer community software platform for technical support based in San Francisco, California, United States. It was founded on January 31, 2007 by several people, including Lane Becker, Amy Muller, Thor Muller, and Jonathan Grubb. It publicly launched in September 2007. The...
platform provides technical support, help and to receive suggestions and feedback.
External links
- JamLegend.com Official website.
- JamLegend's Get satisfaction Get SatisfactionGet SatisfactionGet Satisfaction is a customer community software platform for technical support based in San Francisco, California, United States. It was founded on January 31, 2007 by several people, including Lane Becker, Amy Muller, Thor Muller, and Jonathan Grubb. It publicly launched in September 2007. The...
's section about JamLegend : technical support, suggestions, feedback. - JamLegend's Wikia - The official JamLegend wiki (hosted on Wikia).
- JamLegend's Signature Generator - Unofficial Signature Generator from any player's statistics on JamLegend making either Full Stats, Normal Stats or avatar types.
- On CafePress - JamLegend's Online Goodies Shop