SimonViklund

Hi everybody, and thanks for the responses! I've emailed the head of the crew that arranges the marathon twice but haven't heard back from him. I'm starting to suspect that the VGM remix prize isn't happening, but I'm trying to get a confirmation on that. We weren't in contact the last month before the marathon should start (it started about 23 hours ago, as I'm writing this) so maybe I dropped the ball - but we had been in contact since last summer and I've been discussing the collaboration idea with AGDQ enthusiasts on their forum and everyone has been psyched for it. Maybe we can make it happen the next time they arrange a marathon (they do two each year). I'll keep you all posted, and I'll send personal answers to everyone who's PMd me. Thanks again! /Simon

Hi everybody, My name is Simon Viklund and I'm a music composer/remixer/interpreter who has been working in the game dev industry since twelve years back. Some of you my recognize my name - I've done some work for Capcom (the Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack being my most acclaimed piece of work). I've gotten in contact with the videogame speedrun community Speed Demos Archive and they run an annual charity fund raising speedrun marathon called Awesome Games Done Quick. The first year they raised $22,000 and each year they've been more ambitious and raised more money - last year they raised $149,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation! I wanted to help and somehow make video game music remixing a prizes for the live stream, to entice and motivate people to donate more money. What I came up with was this: People can attach text messages to their donations, so we encourage donators to write down their piece of videogame music. Winners will be chosen by determining who made the most generous donation by a certain time limit during the speedrun marathon. The winner then gets the honor of having his/her favorite music remixed by talented videogame remixers! Remixing has to be done while the marathon takes place - I would suggest that you try to be finished with your remix in 12 hours or less so that there isn't too much of a delay from when the winner is appointed to when the prize is distributed - and the final song has to be mp3 encoded and sent to the marathon organizers so that they can put it up on their site while the marathon still goes on. The winner's remix prize will be a free download for everyone who visits the site. If you have a web camera and can stream an image from your working environment as you're creating the image, that would be wonderful! Streaming the creation of the art live would go so well with the internet and "live stream" concept of the entire event - people will be able to see videogame speedruns live, make charity donations, win prizes, see their prizes be created by the artists in live streams! It'll be cool! Do you want to be a part of this? Contact me immediately on this forum! The marathon starts on Sunday the 6th of January 2013 and goes on for one week, day and night. Let's help fight cancer!