Eino Keskitalo

The video was fully appreciated by the whole family here! --Eino

Yes, definitely seconded! I'll sit out this round, although it takes mental effort with two good source picks - I have ideas for both, but I should also sleep sometime. (: --Eino

Haha, I remember playing this for a day or two straight with a friend back in the day.. the blisters I got on my thumbs were so bad. I'm a bit sad I don't remember the music so well, the first stage seems familiar, but the two others don't really ring a bell. But most importantly, all are very good stuff! Perhaps I'll get around to paying tribute to this game, the memories are good! --Eino

Wow! Preschtale was one of The Albums for 2012 for me. This sounds like a wonderful continuation - great idea! Thanks for the music! --Eino

Happy birthday to a fellow PRC'er! (: (and congrats on winning #234!) --Eino

Happily, I found the time to vote. Pretty good round! --Eino

Running Out of Time uses Sealed Door, which has 3 OC ReMixes posted. Technically it's against the rules, should we consider this when voting? (I don't personally mind, but am the kind of guy to point this sort of thing regardless ) --Eino

Uploaded mine! --Eino

I have something I find almost submittable, and I should have an hour or two tomorrow to work on it. So we should have at least two tracks. (: Nice work MindWanderer for having already done your entry way ahead of the deadline! --Eino

Link's dead. Ganon rejoices. --Eino

Sounded pretty cool to me! I especially liked the combination of plucked strings and the synths, and the "swingy" feel some of it had, especially the horn thing towards the end. --Eino

My previous compliments apply. The solo piano section seems much more coherent now. It still has a sort of hesitant quality to it, which didn't detract from the piece musically. jnWake had good-sounding comments on improving it though. I agree with this. It sounds like a 90s style looped beat thing to me, which I don't have a problem with, but some more activity wouldn't probably hurt. But I have to say I thought the percussion in the quiet section starting at 01:39 was pretty stiff. Giving it a more humanized feel might work, but if you don't want to go that route, perhaps more processing/filtering, fading that stuff in/out would give it more interest. I think this is a serious problem with the arrangement, you have to bring some of those notes in line with the overall harmony of the piece. Fairly easy to fix though. The bassline and the idea you have about it is cool in itself, and I like its overall sound. I hope you can get a live player on this, it'd be cool to hear! Because that is in the possibilities, I didn't much concentrate on the current sax sound so no comments on it now. Oh, and the flanged shaker is <3 --Eino

It took me a while, but here's a few more comments. Doesn't sound too dry to me. The piano sound seems ok to me as well. I think I liked the real piano sound more, but it was some time ago so I can't be sure. It sounds good enough to me in any case, especially the quieter parts. Of course I can't speak for the judges panel, I think I have a lower standard for production/sound quality than them. I had to turn up the volume on the computer to hear the track properly, so it's a bit quiet on the quiet sections. The loud things are then really loud! Then again, classical music usually has a big dynamic range. I feel like the arrangement gets a bit predictable as it progresses in my opinion, and I sometimes lose focus on listening to it (around 03:30 maybe?). But sometimes it seems just fine. I don't have a concrete suggestion unfortunately. I do enjoy the minimalistic style/feel at the same time. You could see what the workshop moderators think by setting the thread up for mod review. --Eino

Great to see you back on this as well, Dj Mokram. The preview kicked all sorts of behinds, you all should watch it right now! I might as well bite. I'd like to grab Dice-Dance-Days, an awesome, awesome track I'm surprised no-one's taken yet. I should be able to send in the first WIP sometime after new year. I'll send you guys a PM as well with a more aggressive example of my stuff. --Eino

That's great! It looks like I couldn't contribute at this point, but I will be buying the game in the future. Tiny sprites, can't resist them. (I'll have to note that at least one of the trailers I saw didn't showcase their tinines enough - every view of the action was zoomed in. If I hadn't seen zoomed out video or screenshot somewhere, I wouldn't be as excited about this game as I am now. Interesting, huh?) --Eino

Using a MIDI as a starting point is fine. (It's actually a requirement for source tunes in regular rounds that the chooser provides a MIDI). Just personalize it in the process so it's not just instruments changed + drumloop added. I can attest that taking part in compos such as this is a great way to improve your music and get stuff done (or at least started). Good luck! --Eino

Started mine, I'm doing , the latest game from Locomalito - released just on 12/12/12. The music's by Gryzor87.--Eino

Hey, cool to see an update! I'm still enjoying it a lot. I'll try to give it a closer listen later to comment on the reverb and piano sound. --Eino

That was a good round. Great job everyone. Thanks for the feedback to all who voted. I didn't find a moment to vote myself, I might reply here with a little feedback later. --Eino

Gotta give props to the smile your lady manages to pull off. The baby makes the best face though. That takes me back. Wish I'd thought of taking a group shot! Huge congrats! Our daughter (now almost 2) also says hi - she seemed to find the picture endearing as well. (: --Eino

Time to figure out which of the ideas in my ReMix TODO to kickstart with this.. pretty sure many are previously un-ReMixed! --Eino

Haha, thanks HoboKa! (: Uploaded! --Eino

Cool. Interesing news. The trailer looked fun. --Eino

I have a decent start as well, I hope to get some more work done on it before deadline. --Eino

Well, there is one mix, so I wouldn't say it's omitted.. but sure, more Tyrian would be niiice. Magellanic has submitted one mix to the panel recentlyish. --Eino