Meteo Xavier

Are there any other sites like this (as in not Ebay or Amazon.com or anything like that) where you can privately sell your games to other interested persons?

ChiPP Damage is the only other one that comes to mind for me.

I was going to wait for an appropriate set up, but you know what? Fuck it. "Oh lordy lou! HEEEEEEELLLP!!!"

Oh, its definitely NOT about money. I'd sure like to make off of this project, but its only 10% of why I want to do it. The other 90% is me wanting to actually make good on this aspect of why I get up in the morning. I mean to actually accomplish something and accomplish it well. And from there go on to accomplish more things. I've been trying for 7 years to just get something DONE and should've been able to, yet I have nothing to show for it except a couple game tracks I did for Phijayy and Yggdrasil Speaks To Me. And with it comes a remarkable weight that comes with plodding along on a project and shooting for a perfection that doesn't exist. I have a lot of projects that are on "hold", that I don't want to throw away because then it serves as a permanent reminder of the time I wasted on them. JUST GET IT DONE, MAN! I'm obsessive and impatient and spending more than a few months to do 8 tracks just seems ridiculous, especially when I'm not as young as I used to be.

Its not for vain artistic merit that I'm comparing "quality" between what I'm shooting for and what others are doing, its what a new age/ambient record label looks for and produces for their label and distribution. I look at last.fm and see plenty of artists on there with 5-6 minute tracks that are just drone, piano, occasional sitar gliss and a bodhran. 4-5 instruments at most in some cases. And they're not even real pianos or bodhrans. I'd bet its someone like me doing it on FL and getting professional mastering. And they have like 9,000 listens on last.fm and 3-4 albums out. But I'm not stupid enough to know its just that easy, thats why I compare quality to see what the markers are. If I'm to compete, I have to show up with better quality songs, and its a quality thats being hampered by that detachment and malaise and that weird, unqualifiable quality that goes with not being crazy about the songs yourselves while others probably eat them up. I'm glad you enjoyed them, thats some genuine relief right there. The hand drums not changing throughout Espers in the first 5 is not really accurate, but it just means my goal of changing up the rhythms without break the flow seems to have worked.

Cham-pag-ne goes great with gwak-a-moal. And human horn for that matter.

Because I'm a DIY-er, and because I have only gotten this far on little else than moxie, I don't have a lot of realistic professional knowledge when it comes to composing and being a composer. This is potentially hazardous because I create primarily on how my music comes off to the listener. Studying all kinds of different artists and how people approach and enjoy them is no help. I hear mixes that are great, but redundant, or creative but muddy or redundant and muddy and people seem to eat it all up. The only thing I can come up with that works as a general indicator for me is "If it sounds good to me, it sounds good to them." Problem now is, what if I can't tell? I'm working on a serious-intentioned New Age/Ambient album (ambient song structures with new age instrumentation and such) and I'm really shooting for the moon here and trying to create a sound that is familiar but unique at the same time. I'm WAY behind on this project and its because the tracks I'm completing just don't move me in any way. I have two tracks (which I'll present in a minute) that I've put like 60 hours on combined in the last 2 weeks. And I'm fucking exhausted. I can't stop and do something else because I want to get this thing fucking done already and I have other projects down the road that need my attention, but at the same time, to me they only might be working. I feel this detachment in a lot of my tracks that aren't in E Major. Is this sort of detachment normal for all composers? Does it just come with the package, or is it bullshit that means I'm not ready to make some money off this trade? Here are the tracks I'm working on, which are largely done but still incomplete jengas. I'm getting each track professionally mastered and I'm hoping it makes the songs brighter and the transitions fit better, but right now, I don't know. I hear songs with worse quality that work somehow, I don't see why mine can't. http://www.savefile.com/files/2125054 http://www.savefile.com/files/2125052

Well, unless you want to pony up the equipment DJP would need to upgrade to those standards, plus the monthly installments of donations he would also need for increased hosting costs, bandwidth etc. - them's the rules. And anyway, if they haven't outright rejected it, its on the judge's panel. You'll hear back by Halloween probably. And you'll likely have to do it over because it is too big. If I were you, I'd take that time editing it down to a proper size and get a resub ready. It really is OCremix worthy, its just too damn big. Don't worry about it. My single Ocremix got rejected and I went through hell getting it proper. It happens to all of us.

Fix'd! The tables have turned and I have turned them!

Various Gods are better than none. Ontopic: I'm not jumping for joy here. Having watched the movies, I'm pretty sure by now the cohesive energy that made Futurama so amazingly fucking awesome in 4 seasons is long gone and having moved on. If this were 5 years ago, something could have been salvaged, but lets not repeat Family Guy. There's a reason the natural world does not allow resurrection after death, and if the $100,000,000 Abortion/Dirty Sanchez that was Family Guy Season 7 teaches us nothing else, its that some things should just stay dead and let us say good things about it in memory, not stay alive so we can say bad things about it. Course, It could still turn out that Futurama is even more badass than ever and that people will talk about its amazing resurrection until it gets its own churches and fundementalism.

Yeah, but that sentence doesn't work as a double entendre for "knock it".

In what way have you not heard anything back? IIRC, they will send you a notice saying they reject it outright. If not, its on the judges panel. If its on the judges panel, it could be Halloween before they get to it. A LOT of people submit. Wow. 7 minutes? And over the 6.00 MB limit? Try Valentines Day as you will clearly need to resubmit. And thats a shame because this song is actually really good. Mixing and instrumentation and style and everything all fits. This is exactly OCR material if it wasn't 3 minutes too long. I wouldn't know where to make the cut, but with it being such an easy going and meandering track, I figure anywhere around the 4:00 could work in theory.

Don't knock it til you try it.

You will do what the rest of us have done at graduation and make a trip to the Blood and Sperm banks and that is final.

Toby Huss only really voices Khan and Cotton. You can find more of him on Reno 911! and Adult Swim shows. He's also uncredited on Vegas Vacation. He supposedly does an incredible Frank Sinatra impersonation, but I've never seen it.

I'm pretty sure I already wrote We're leaving it at that.

Go to vgmusic.com and start with anything called Final Fantasy.

I don't want to talk about such things.

To quote Darkesword (which I can't because for some reason that page won't load for me), "[...] Romhacks don't need the negative attention."

Ok, well I call for a resolve on this issue on the condition that its not Zeality's fault some 31-year-old prick absolutely sucks at his job. I think whoever has a Facebook account should email Adam a picture of what a Square-Enix C&D letter is supposed to look like (and nothing else - just want that to be clear) and call it good. For good.

I know most everyone uses the randomizing in Tools to try to humanize the notes, but I keep doing this and it doesn't sound much more realistic to me. Is there a certain level which you edit them apart from one another that hits the right balance? Additionally, what do you do with instruments or VSTs that FL doesn't do velocity edits with, lets say Minimogue VA?

$19 for what I've always wanted really isn't that bad of a deal.

Well of course not, it was made after the fact and not too long ago. On topic: How much is it selling for on Wiiware?

I thought Israfel was dead. Nice to see you're still a carbon-based lifeform.