Bahamut

I'd be down - I anticipated that the MAGFest experience would be completely different with the hotel room issue, and was super frustrated by the hotel booking process/expense (it's bad that 6 nights in central London was cheaper than 3 nights at the Gaylord...), so I rage quit going essentially...plus getting a lot of pile on vitriol by MAGFest staffers when I tried to suggest options to improve the process based on basically every other event I participate/attempt to participate in that have the exact same issues but solve them in a reasonable fashion several months before the atrocious booking process was announced. IMO such a meetup shouldn't be tethered to a con, and should probably rotate locations so as to give a better chance of others in the community to join in, as well as give fresh sights/stuff to do. I also recommend being flexible with dates since ideally we could pick dates that work best for the community/aren't as expensive to travel on. I'd definitely be up for helping out covering some costs & would be willing to fly out to such an event.

Man, its been a while - first off I'd like to apologize for everyone for dropping the ball on this. I could not give this the attention it deserved ultimately, especially after embarking on my career almost 5 years ago. I'm in a good place now, but way too exhausted & busy to do much except maybe build websites, my domain of expertise. I'm glad to see that it has sped up to completion over the past year! I am excited to see what everyone has whipped up .

Heads up @Kanthos and @theshaggyfreak, your gifts will be arriving late.

I just sent out all the matches (except to @Mikayan - enable messages or let me know how I can relay it!) - happy giving!

I'm going to do the matchings a little later when I get home - you can still sign up in the meantime, but once I lock it down, I am likely doing the pairings/sending out the PMs.

Last day to join in the fun! Tomorrow I will do the randomization and match people - for the curious, I open sourced my matching implementation: https://github.com/wesleycho/secret-santa

Bumping this up - got until Wednesday!

Sorry for the delay, but Secret Santa 2016 is on! Here's the link to the form for filling out the info for those who want to be in for this year: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJZjziyf9So7YLJ5wZpwJPGUgadbo1yt1JSe3x0kOB_QGnxA/viewform?entry.1808221956&entry.638850218&entry.1915050529&entry.937992033&entry.1702689183&entry.1855666434 Please fill out the form before November 23rd if you want to be a part of it. An annual reminder - please don't fret too much over spending money for the Secret Santa. Some of the most creative gifts can be free! Please try to be thoughtful though. People participating: Bahamut BardicKnowledge Capa Langley Cosmic Prism DragonAvenger Esperado Flexstyle GSO Hyperion5182 JenZ Kanthos kitty Koriantor Miyakan Obtuse ProjectSpam prophetik music pu_freak Rexy Sixto The Damned The Nikanoru TheShaggyFreak Wiesty wildfire

Damn, Lashmush did Kefka and Lavos? Taking on some big songs there

Informally, you have to create a proposal and send it to staff with a rough estimated timeline, initial artist list for tracks, summary of album concept, and desires for what the album will require. I'd talk with a staff member more versed on these things though, I've been out of the loop for years .

Just note, we'll need a quick turnaround (aiming to have the music 100% done by the end of the ~6 months, will release as is at that point), but I would absolutely love for this to be done - I'm fine with it if you are.

Almost every time I leave a forum tab open and I get a notification, I see a weird character pop up on the title where it should say ([number of notifications]) - this is on Firefox on Windows 10, and Chrome on OS X.

@evktalo: shooting for six 2 month check-ins currently, dates haven't been formalized yet, but expect them sometime next week. @Odai: We had an artist on the project already, but I think we may need another since this is a Square game (which means we need lots of custom artwork).

Just marked you guys down for Danger and @Sagnewshreds for Flight Into the Unknown

@Neblix & @Hipnotyk: done