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My younger sister mastered the craft of WASD 360 moves (as in she could strategically use them in a real fight using WASD). Always wiped the floor with me using Zangief on X-men vs Street Fighter... so yeah, it's doable. Sadly, that's even my preferred style of controller. Nice hack, but I don't think my poor internet could handle the download

It isn't that simple, dude. You are allowing the publisher to take your work and distribute it as they please (which is good for you, since you get far more exposure and, in turn, more sales) at the price of your monopoly over your own creative materials. In the end (if all turns out well) everyone will benefit, since more sales for your material suddenly becomes more profitable for both parties than if no one cooperated.As for your position, Meteo, I'd just ask the publisher if that was alright, if you can. It's more than likely that they'd say absolutely not to any free distribution (for obvious reasons), but they might be alright with what you want to do with it (sell it for a price outside of their publishing before it's published). At least then you'd have a clear-cut answer about the whole thing. It's probably in the contract, though, like Mustin said.

It's alright. We all start somewhere - just don't lose heart. It takes time to get these things down.

Happy birthday, you two... One is talking about something random, and the other is a New Mexican home boy, so you're both awesome . Continue being awesome for another year, guys.

Ahhhh... Due to weather problems my normal plans were wrecked this week, so I said what the hell? This is an OHC week, for me Wonderful, as always.

It's probably been up there for a while, but I just noticed that the WOW remix is to be posted, so I guess there will be some relatively avant-guarde music up here soon .

Ahhh... Soft-synths. I like them, but I'm positive there are better, free VST's out there, so go look for em'. I use Reason, primarily, so I don't know of any good ones out there, off the top of my head (Reason doesn't use VSTs). If you use poorer quality instruments than are available out there then OCR will immediately reject the music without further evaluation. The music is very, very conservative, and it's going to take a lot more than changing the drum track to fix that problem, if you plan on submitting this. You play the source note-for-note without changing the structure. I would suggest rewriting the entire track, except play with the structure, change the harmonies, improvise with the melody a bit, etc., until you can hear your own voice interpreting the music rather than reorchestrating it. Overall, it's not bad, though. I personally like the sax (although, again, better sounds to represent it on the internet, I'm sure) - I feel that gives a sweet sound to the whole thing. You've got the source spot on, now try playing with it a bit and reinterpret it. It will not make it on OCR as is, so make the changes to fix that or work on something new. Now let's see if my interpretation of the same source will make it on there . Funny coincidence that you remixed the same song as I did . Good luck.

I don't think this was written with OCR in mind, Rozo - it IS in the 'originals/other' section Yes, better samples would, most likely, improve the sound rather than nullify it, since the real charm of the piece comes from compositional aspects (not from the timbral aspects), so I'm not against making a good piece better by using better samples (hell, there's a deal going right now for a free EWQL set - check it out and see if it helps). On the other hand, whenever writing for your own enjoyment it doesn't really matter that much. That's how I take it, right now, so I'm not going to hammer you for sample quality. If you're writing for publicity or for a project of sorts then better samples would be a boon for you. Still, it's a nice piece

Ah, original writing using themes from other games... This is pretty good (aside from any 'midi' sounding effects, of course). It sounds like you took mostly from the OoT music with a hint of LttP, motivically speaking. It's fun to do things like that, and enjoyable to listen to the results. Good job.

String quartet, eh? Basically, anything goes when remixing something like this (except a string quartet remix). Interesting, I'll see what I can do... I've gotta start the decade right, here.

Hey, if you ever miss judging stuff you can always go to the WIP forum and tear those pieces apart - everyone there'll appreciate it

Wow... well OCR won't be the same without you as a judge, Zircon - you will be missed. As long as this gives you more time to write awesome remixes for the site, though, I won't mind (*hint hint*).

Happy birthday, and never stop posting weird ass shit. It adds... spice... to the OCR forums.

The NES series of Ninja Gaiden... Really, although the first game has some love on this site (thankfully), the second game only has one song remixed from the second game (with a single exception from Silent), and the entire third game is unremixed, entirely! Underappreciated, for sure.

Well then the thread I posted is a great example of that I do know who Ligeti is, strangely enough - I had a college do a study on a solo cello piece of his, I think.

Here's a (relatively) avant-guard remix that was it the WIP forums a while back on Tinker-Town from WOW. It's pretty good - check it out. Actually, I don't know what people mean by 'Avant-guard' - it's supposed to mean the front of what's being produced today (sound-art being pretty up there, along with advanced timbre focused music), but most often people actually mean music that uses Forte-like set models for the music (which is over 100 years old). The example above is the latter in design.

Hmm... well, I didn't really care much for the update, myself (I was really looking at ladder reset, personally), but adding respecs to the system really makes me a little sick. Who knows, I'm most likely alone on this, but the fact that you really needed to plan your character out from the very beginning was one of the things that made the game stand out for me. With respecing, that's no longer an issue (even if you can only do it three times - it still takes the bite out of early leveling). On the other hand it'll open up some more interesting possibilities with early/mid/high builds, so I guess there's still some experimenting to do. The patch isn't finished, so there's still some room for improvement before it goes live (perhaps TPPK'ing will still be fixed?), but a small patch, nonetheless. Meh, a small patch, for sure, but who cares? It's not taking anything away from anyone, so what's the big deal?

Congratulations on the job, man! Always great to see people from the community succeed The title of the thread's coming off as strange to me, atm - I've been living in a place with an Irish woman who been calling fecal matter 'jobbies', so the Id UI Artist wasn't the first thing to come to mind, for me. Very weird coincidence.

Damn, I missed the actual birthday of the site. Meh, better late than never. Here's to ten years of exponential success! At least I managed to get fairly drunk for the actual birthday, even if it was for a different reason.

Yes, an amazing theme. Someday I must remix it in all of it's oddly timed glory, but not now not now... I still have your remix floatin' around here, strangely enough, BlackPanther. Also, yes, I believe the track is being remixed on the Kirby Album project, so be patient

Yeah, I've been hammered for that very thing a while back, but again it didn't effect anything, so no harm done

As I expected, Divine Wrath has trumped my ass (mine was not too great, imho). Good going there, and I wish you the best for the last compo of the year!

I'm indifferent to the new design, there (It's Squaresoft - what'd you expect?), although I'll miss the good ol' 'just-out-of-the-shower' look that Maxim used to have... Just watched the video, and I'm pretty stoked, now. Great graphics, a new battle system (to replace the dated one from the series - it worked then, but I'm not so sure it would now), a revised soundtrack, a revised story (hopefully it will remove the 'Fix the Bridge' story mechanics and use more organic story devices), CG movies... Yeah, needless to say, this looks like it's going to be perfect. Gotta play it to find out, though - here's looking forward to the 2010 release!

I'm guessing the last one didn't do so hot on the panel, eh? I didn't see it on there the last bout, so did I just miss it or did it even get on? I was sure it was at least re-sub category, last time. Onto the music... No sword sound effect?! NOOO!! That was my favorite part... I'm guessing the J's said take it out. I know, what they say is law, if you're looking to get on here, but still... I've noticed that you've made the style more homogenious than last time. Making the sound more similar than before is a step in the right direction, but I think you went overboard on that. Now I can't tell where I am in the structure of the music. Add some different textures and such to vary the sound a little bit more. The main lead you use sounds a bit like a square wave playing a kazoo... I'm not really feeling that too much for this song. It doesn't help that it's in the song so often. No key changes this time? I'd consider putting them back in there, since that gave the song a bit more variety and helped keep the interest high (for me, at least). I liked the song before, and I like it now. I think it was more interesting before, though - do you suppose there's any way to include the variety from the last version you posted and keep the stylized sound you've added? If you could do that you'd have a winner, here. And get the sword sound back in here. *SHW-ANG!*

... as you know, I've been out of the loop so I didn't get that memo. *sigh* Alas, that's life. Well then see you all next year some time, then