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    MUSICIANS NEEDED: Global Game Jam @ MAGFest (Sat., Jan. 24, 11AM-3PM)

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    Who's the contact person on that? I'm 100% sure there's no malice intended btw. Most likely what they meant was that music made for game jam games has a limited license to be used in said games, not that the developers own the music permanently (i.e. musician can no longer use that music for anything else, sell it, put it on an album)

    Our main people behind it are Chris Totten, Tim MacNeil and Lindsay Grace. try tim.macneil@magfest.org.

    Sorry for the confusion about this.

    OCR02740 - Gunstar Heroes "Rolling Gun Changer"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

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    Not following what you mean about staples of 8/16 bit. What I'm getting at is that the source material is about a minute and a half long, but this mix (and its predacessor) focuses on the first 14 seconds of that source material. Additionally, that 14 seconds is really just 3 or so seconds repeated four times. The rest of the song has great melodies, but they have little focus in this mix. I'm a big fan of those melodies, which is why I do not personally enjoy this mix's approach.

    This mix is definitely a huge production improvement over his old one, So the remixer deserves mad props for that. It just retains the aforementioned approach that personally turns me off to it.

    OCR02740 - Gunstar Heroes "Rolling Gun Changer"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

    Posted · Edited by Nick The Newbie

    Very well produced, but repeats the same mistake of remixer's original arrangement that he made some ten years ago. Too much focus is placed on the source material's 14 second intro section, repeating it over and over again, while the actual melody of the source material is left neglected.

    Edit: Sorry, "mistake" is an objective term that I'm incorrectly using for a personal opinion. Replace that "aspect that I did not personally enjoy".

    BitGen Gamer Fest Aug 10 (Live OCR band!)

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    Posted · Edited by Nick The Newbie

    WUDDUP BIZATCHES.

    If you haven't already heard BitGen Gamer Fest is now an official MAGFest event, and this year's BitGen will be August 10th at Rams Head Live in Baltimore. That's the same weekend as Otakon, and the venue is mere blocks from the convention center, so it's very easy to get to. And BOY HOWDY is it a hell of a venue in a much nicer area than past BitGens.

    We've got a pretty good lineup this year filled with old favorites, and a couple new contenders, the most appropriate to you guys being OverClocked University! Did you know that OCR had a live band? oh.. you did.....? WELL THEY HAVE A DRUMMER NOW. I BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT.

    Anyway, here's the full band list:

    Powerglove

    The Megas

    Random aka Megaran

    OverClocked University (New Band!)

    Rare Candy

    Those Who Fight

    X-Hunters

    Random Battles

    Knight of the Round (New Band!)

    Cheap Dinosaurs

    Super Guitar Bros (New Band!)

    Tickets are available through the BitGen website, or directly through Rams Head's ticketing system.

    MAGFest 12 - Post-MAGFest Depression hits again

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    Well if you REALLY want something official, here's a little info about our badge tiers this year.

    People have been begging for ways to give us more money, so we implemented the "kick in extra" feature to help people do that. No longer is "supporter" your only option for donating to the organization and getting yourself some extra swag. You can kick in with smaller increments than before, and every tier includes all the bonuses of every tier below it.

    The new big feature that we're trying out is a replacement for the super supporter pass, and we call it the Season Supporter. If you kick in to the supporter level, you get admission to all MAGFest events for 2014. This includes M12, bit gen, game over concerts, and magstock. As a special bonus for the debut year of the pass, you'll also get admission to 2013 MAGFest events as well.

    If you guys do your group reg to save 10 bucks, you also have the option of allowing individual group members to kick in to upgrade their badge.

    MAGFest 12 - Post-MAGFest Depression hits again

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    MAG capped at 3000 during the 6-9 days because that was the maximum attendance the Alexandria Mark Hilton could hold, and we hit that cap during MAG 9. Since moving to the Gaylord, there's been no cap that I know of, mostly because there's no earthly way we could ever fill that place to max capacity. The larger individual meeting rooms there have caps of 10000, so all of MAGFest would have to go to something to cap that one room.

    You do have to worry about running out of rooms on the MAG rate, but there's also a lot of smaller hotels in walking distance if worse comes to worse.

    I was GOING to hop in this thread and answer questions, but you people already know everything about the event, so now I'm completely useless.

    MAGFest Presents: Game Over concert series (Austin, TX)

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    MAGFest has a lot of expansion plans going on, including the acquisition of Bit Gen Gamer Fest, a future possibility of MAGWest, and in the immediate future, a brand new concert series called Game Over.

    MAGFest Presents: Game Over is a little miniature touring MAGFest, featuring video game bands, arcades, and other games. The first of these shows will be in Austin, TX on February 3rd, and feature Megaran, Urizen, Descendants of Erdrick, Lords of Thunder, and Doctor Awkward.

    Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/446876298714279/

    Ticket sales ($10): http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=77016&eid=86875

    When a convention gets too big

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    I have been to a few big cons, and I have had a hard time finding things of interest to me at them - it's a wonder how they thrive to me.

    MAGFest is special due to large tight knit communities actively taking a part of it and its central theme/appeal has not been changed.

    Oh, stop, you.

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