shadow24

Thank you for volunteering guys / gals If signups are still low in early december then I'll add in other successful kickstarter games such as FTL, Shantae, Pier Solar And The Great Architects, Freedom Planet, Tiny Barbarian, and Shovel Knight. Also I'll remove song voting and just have people pick what they want from all the OST tracks. Until then though I'll leave the setup as is. OK: Updated this competition, changed some things etc. See top post.

Oh ok I've never hosted a compo before so I'm trying to get everthing right. I'll take away the upper restriction and put a lower one. Also I may extend signups a week into january if I don't see alot of interest. Its tricky setting this up during popular holidays this time of year. Also, I'll probably hit Darke up for some sub-forum voting threads near the end of signups as an alternative to PM voting.

Thanks for the reply and complements. In all honesty I'm not expecting 50 participants. It's just 51 would be my upper limit since I'd have to mp3 tag everyone's music in a day. If just 20 people signed up then I would be happy. I'm hoping everyone is just waiting until they know their new year's schedule before deciding. I feel the signup allotment time is very generous. The bracket style is so people won't get burnt out and have a good break between mixing. Let me ponder your suggestion though.

Artist Appreciation Competition 2015 (Kick Starter Games) An unofficial competition that was generously allowed to be hosted on OCR. General I wanted to give a big thanks to the artists that have provided great music over the years and needed a catalyst to do so. This competition is the result and I wholeheartedly hope everyone involved has fun in the process. The theme for this competition is "Kick Starter Games" and participants will be choosing and remixing from various soundtracks each round. If you have any questions or need anything clarified just ask. Thanks! Source Material Freedom Planet Freedom Planet FTL FTL FTL: Advanced Edition La-Mulana La-Mulana (Complete OST) Mercenary Kings Mercenary Kings Shantae Shantae: Risky's Revenge Shantae and the Pirate's Curse Shovel Knight Shovel Knight Tiny Barbarian Tiny Barbarian DX - The Serpent Lord Tiny Barbarian DX - Ruins of Xandu Also any other kickstarted game not specified can be used. Schedule Nov 19 - Dec 27 - Signups. Dec 28 - Participants will randomly be assigned Brackets. Dec 29 - Jan 03 - Bracket A chooses their first song. Jan 05 - Jan 10 - Bracket A remixes. Bracket B chooses their first song. Jan 12 - Jan 17 - Bracket B remixes. Bracket C chooses their first song. Voting for Bracket A. Jan 19 - Jan 24 - Bracket C remixes. Bracket A chooses their next song. Voting for Bracket B. Jan 26 - Jan 31 - Bracket A remixes. Bracket B chooses their next song. Voting for Bracket C. Feb 02 - Feb 07 - Bracket B remixes. Bracket C chooses their next song. Voting for Bracket A. Feb 09 - Feb 14 - Bracket C remixes. Voting for Bracket B. (Remixing extended: now due Tuesday the 17th at the last second of the day.) Feb 16 - Feb 21 - Voting for Bracket C. (Voting extended: from Wednesday the 18th through Tuesday the 24th at the last second of the day. Brackets Here are all three. Alpha Bravo Charlie [*]Participants will be randomly divided into groups then assigned to each bracket (I'll try to adjust if needed in order to compensate for individuals that have personal scheduling conflicts). [*]Individuals in each bracket will remix two songs over the course of this competition. [*]Example: If 16 people signup then brackets will include (5,5,6) individuals. 32 songs will be created in total. 16 in all 3 bracket's round 1. 16 in all 3 bracket's round 2. Participant To Bracket Assignment Prizes ($540 total) The winners of each round will receive. (You will be contacted if you win, so please provide a paypal account etc to receive your prize. I can do money orders too. They are guaranteed by the post office and I can confirm delivery as well.) 1st Place) $45 2nd Place) $30 3rd Place) $15 Prize Delivery Status - Legend (Pending | Sent (Receive Issue) | Sent) Round One Hylian Lemon Gario Cosmic Sounds Cyril The Wolf Nutritious Garpocalypse [*] MushroomSword Ghetto Lee Lewis Jonathan! Round Two Signups Anyone can signup. Please PM the competition organizer or post here to signup and your name will be added to the roster. Please title the PM "AAC 2015 - Signup" with your preferred artist name in the body of the message. When mixing please remix solo with no outside help to simplify payment to winners. I need a minimum of 9 people in order to start. Please tell your talented friends! Submission PM the competition organizer no later than Sunday 12:00AM EST (Saturday midnight) at the end of the remixing week with a link to your remix. You can host on Dropbox, Soundcloud etc. I prefer MP3 format. Please use the following format to name your song. Format: "Remixer - Your Title (Source Game - Source Track Name).mp3" Example "shadow24 - Flood Gates (Mercenary Kings - Dam II).mp3" Voting Vote in the proper voting threads no later than Sunday 12:00AM EST (Saturday midnight) at the end of the voting week. Choosing songs. (Participants Of The Respective Bracket Only) You cannot choose the same source twice. You get to pick your own song from all these sources. (This can be abused if you are not a procrastinator / bogged down) [*]Voting on remixes (Everyone) The organizer can only vote in order to tiebreak. Voting should be based on asking yourself the following questions. Is at least 50% of the source material used? How well is the remix composed, arranged, produced, and mastered? How well do you enjoy the remix? [*]Please vote for your top three choices. [*]Using the artist's name or song title both work when voting. [*]Example [*]Counts for votes go as following (1st => 3pts, 2nd => 2pts, 3rd => 1pt). [*]Remixers cannot vote for the song that they made. [*]Any remixer in the competition who votes will automatically receive 3pts towards their entry because they voted. [*]Voting Threads (Everyone) Voting Thread - Alpha Bracket - Round One Voting Thread - Bravo Bracket - Round One Voting Thread - Charlie Bracket - Round One Voting Thread - Alpha Bracket - Round Two Voting Thread - Bravo Bracket - Round Two Voting Thread - Charlie Bracket - Round Two Downloads Alpha Bracket - Round One Bravo Bracket - Round One Charlie Bracket - Round One Alpha Bracket - Round Two Bravo Bracket - Round Two Charlie Bracket - Round Two Bonus Artwork Album Art (Template and Example) PDN Template (Character art taken from DeviantArt artists spacemanstrife (Freedom Planet) and gsilverfish (Tiny Barbarian)) Sigs (Template and Example) PDN Template (Freedom Planet) (Character Art By DeviantArt Artist spacemanstrife) PDN Template (FTL) (Ship Art By DeviantArt Artist MeckanicalMind) PDN Template (La-Mulana) PDN Template (Mercenary Kings) PDN Template (Shantae) PDN Template (Shovel Knight) PDN Template (Tiny Barbarian) Please see Hylian Lemon for the all in one sig. (I had to remove it here due to a 10 image post limitation.) Hylian LemonGariosupercoolmike [*] Nutritious Cyril The Wolf gercr [*] Brandon Strader MushroomSword

Cool, Thanks guys. I think you are right. It seems like all the songs I make have basically the same core problems. Structure / Focus. I'll work on those. Does anyone just do the structure and composing before messing with sound design / effects? It seems boring but more effective if I were to go about making a song that way. Is that something that you would recommend?

Bump. Any feedback is good. I'll take comments ranging from 1) You suck. to 2) It's awesome please submit it. Thanks again.

About: (WIP) Remix of Death Mountain. Game: (SNES) Legend Of Zelda - A Link To The Past Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVHoVIyjldU Key: C Natural Minor Current Version: https://soundcloud.com/darrencsmith/death-mountain-wip-9 Older Versions: https://soundcloud.com/darrencsmith/sets/death-mountain-wips Hey everyone. Just curious to see what everyone thinks about this. Depending on the feedback I may work on it or move on to another project. Please critique. Thanks in advance. ~Dare

Here's my WIP. It's far from finished. Thought I had another day. https://soundcloud.com/darrencsmith/lun-attic-disposition I think Esperado is the official mixer this round though. Gotta go to work now.

Yeah we're already in the top 3. Woot Will there be a perfect dark / mickey's magical quest bonus track as well?!?!? Stay tuned.... same bat time, same bat channel

I'd like to try again. How about this song? Dark Souls OST - Moonlight Butterfly / Dark Sun Gwyndolin The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse - Dark Forest I can always go rogue and just mix for two weeks without a star again. Doesn't bother me either way. PS: Hey Esperado "TAJ Represent"

Just got back from a business trip in NM. Just wanted to give a big shout out to my teammates and say you are awesome. Also wanted to thank Darke for hosting these competitions every so often and for the support, help, and banter from all the other people involved in this competition. You know who you are. Twas fun

Awww, Don't kill our wittle creative spirits :/

http://www.khinsider.com/midifiles/nes/mega-man-6/ending-and-credits.mid Found this guy too ^. Haven't heard it yet but assume its the right one. Edit: Ok, It's correct and starts at 3:52

Hey all, Thanks for the advise. I was speaking to Brandon yesterday and he was pointing me in the right directions. I have Level99's guidelines now and know where to start a project / recruit people and what is ultimately expected. I'm still trying to figure out if I can even be a director... In the least I'm gathering information together (Like song lists and links to the original sources). I'll do more on Sunday. I'll just start with the first game if I decide to do it. Thank you all for the advice!

Bump.... So no advice / interest? Noone wants to be one of the 108 Remixers Of Destiny?

If he is the one that inflicts zombie status on you and instantly kills your aeons I agree as well.

Good job KT Usually I don't care for lyrics but yours works quite well. Enjoyed the story you rapped

Just because you didn't get a vote doesn't mean it isn't good. Don't expect perfection in unexplored territories my friend although if this is a first attempt then its a very good one

Happy birthday you grim reaper you

It's funny they redid the stretch goals. Me thinks that the "making of documentary" isn't as enticing to fans and they didn't want the funding to dwindle down anymore...

And let us thank Team Ninja for spear heading this effort.

Auron is a totally awesome badass, but I must say I always smile every time Rikku death strike mugs an enemy and says "Oopsie!" On another note was Lulu just unpopular? I don't know why they axed her for Paine in the sequel that was a much harder game IMO

If you rush through the game it can be very challenging. I'm not disagreeing with you there. Let me clarify it a bit. FFX is extremely easy if you exploit weapon / armor creation and the sphere grid only 10%. I'm the type of player that appreciates a good story but cares way more about the gameplay. If I played FFX again I'd just use Rikku and say slap some ridiculous status effect on her weapon like death strike or petrify. Place it on her capture weapon. You can put a lot of touches on them easily too. Just doing that makes non-bosses a walk in the park. The english voice actress for Yuna left alot to be desired. Let's hope at least in the sequel this gets rectified... The difficulty of RPGs that wait for user input is only limited to the user's choice and their patience (Grinding for levels or items). Bad decisions and you die. It's not like this is an action game where split second timing counts. You don't really need to level up everyone anyway. Except maybe Kimarhi for his solo battle on the snowy mountain. You could just use Tidus, Wakka, and Rikku since they can do underwater combat. I really like FFX don't get me wrong. Especially the sphere grid and customization. I'd just rather see something new from Squinex. FFXIII saddened me. We all know they can do better. It's sad we have to look forward to re-releases instead of their new games.

FFX is way to easy to beat. I love the battle system but don't know if I can put up with the whiny / weakness combo that is tidus and yuna. I'd rather square put forth effort and make an original game. I personally do not want to play a game I have already mastered and know everything about already. This would bore me. Now for people who have never played the original it is great. Square needs to innovate. Innovation is what built their company and saved it when the first final fantasy was made. Don't get me wrong I love nostalgia but I'd rather have something fresh and new. Games like Lufia 2, Legend Of Legaia, Suikoden, and BOF5 Dragon Quarter are good examples of successful attempts at innovation. PS: How to totally own everything in the game. Make a weapon and put Double AP and AP to Overdrive on it. Put Auto-Haste on some armor. You will get uber-powerful so quickly.

How old is the husband and wife team "Bun Bun"? They still alive? They would be a much better choice if you ask me I think they composed Solar Man last.. which is fairly recently I do believe.