Jorito

Wow, that's quite a bit list you've got there. I expected a smaller list, something like 20 tracks or so. I guess most people aren't fully satisfied with their tracks due to deadlines and limited time and expect they'd want to take some time to polish them a bit. With this many tracks that might take a while. Not saying it's a problem, just pointing it out Still gotta polish 2 of my tracks

Definitely looking forward to it! Apart from being my OCR album debut, it's also gonna be my listening party debut

In essence that's what it is. I've done a ton of work with these kinds of Social Media platforms, and conceptually have a pretty good idea of how one should do this. In general it means following the accounts (or particularly for Facebook the Page, for Twitter the account, and for Youtube the channel due to the way these APIs work) find the correct OCReMix post(s) you're looking for, get the comments (potentially with some extra API requests) and store them somewhere. With some glue, rate limit handling, oauth access tokens and (if needed) some kind of strategy to backfill this data for older remixes I think you're good. I could even build it, but the last programming language I touched is Node.js; haven't touched PHP in years. But I'm happy to advice and assist if somebody is up for it.

Cool plan! Unfortunately time doesn't allow for me to albumize it, but I already did some revisions on my track for round 1 and want to update my round 2 track and submit it. So if anyone is willing and able to create an album out of it, I'm happy to shoot him/her these tracks.

Nothing to add to what my team mate Eino said. Apart from being proud that we got to rickroll all of you for 9 rounds and still ended up in third place Lots of fun, thanks for running another enjoyable compo, mr. Darke!

For question one: I think I'm some 10 years older than most people here (28? heh, get off my lawn, youngster!) and that means 2 things in my case. The first being that general life and work stuff takes up a lot more time than it used to do. Back in high school and college I definitely had a lot more spare time on my hands, and I guess that goes for most forum users here too. I think there's quite a few of us past the school/college period and that also probably means a reduced amount of spare time. As for the other thing, being an older person here it also means that the games I played and get nostalgic about tend to be older as well. I grew up with 8 bit home computers and a PSX, and that means a lot of the newer games don't mean anything to me. That also means I typically won't review and comment. And about question 2: I'm not sure if increasing the number of reviews is a useful goal. Personally I don't really care about the number of reviews (of my own tracks). I'd to like to see a more active community here, but I'm not convinced focusing on the number of reviews is the way to get there. It's also something of this day and age I guess, where user interaction is spread between the site and various Social Media. Typically you see something across the board, also in my other niche hobby, but also something in my work (news media/brands). In stead of having one platform (the forum) with a lot of reactions, you now have 4 platforms (forum, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook) where the total number of reviews/reactions is probably not as in-depth as in ye olden days but in total numbers it's probably larger. I think it'd be cool to just pull in the comments/reviews from the Youtube, Facebook and Twitter postings in the forum as well and see what that does. Maybe there's more cases where doing something similar makes sense; currently the site is leading and all Social stuff is based on what's on the site, but the circle from Social back to the site is not there atm. Might be interesting to think about that, embracing all these platforms and combining them in stead of trying to force the audience (back) to the forums. The community is probably still there, just more scattered and, in today's society, also more fleeting.

Include the Facebook comments and Twitter replies too, in that case. Effectively you'd centralize the discussion on the site. Technically feasible because all these platforms have APIs, but if it's a desirable functionality is debatable.

Sweet! An album for a game I actually played Got some good nostalgic feelings for this game! I'm a bit short on time at the moment but will probably be able to jump in later. So if I'm allowed to make a temp claim: Yafutoma Dawn / Eastern Air Pirates (combo track) in spaghetti western (Ennio Morricone) style. Not sure what that will turn out like, but should be interesting!

Thank you for thanking the thanker!

A listening party, cool! Never joined one, but I think I can make it!

We can only hope so Never played the game myself, but I really liked working on the album. And hey, I got to remix Vampire Killer again, so my craving for nostalgia was definitely met

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Looking forward to it! Rather proud of my album tracks and I'd like to see them released And as offered earlier, I'm happy to help out with some stuff if you want me to.

Don't feel soz, only 5 of our 9 tracks had vocals (or 7 out of 9 if you count my vocoded vox too)

Interesting observation you have there. Not sure I agree with you, but you have some points. I can see that a lot of us use the same equipment and instruments (probably because we're all in the same prosumer range) and of course all of us are also influenced by a lot of the same music: game music. That's why we are here on OCR . Using the same game that uses the same genre across its maverick themes would probably cause the tracks to be a bit similar. As for my own tracks, yeah, they sound like me even though they are in different genres. But if I would compare it to Eino's or Tuberz' tracks they are different too, with Tuberz having a bias to guitar oriented rock and Eino a preference for complex cerebral arrangements. So from a production perspective they might have the same production values (mixing, loud, compression, etc), but if you look/listen deeper I think you can quite clearly identify each person's own style. Anyway, interesting observation to ponder on

I have both, but started with Shreddage so I might be a bit biased. Both are good, but I think Shreddage is easier to use; in Strawberry I tend to fiddle more. Strawberry does have strumming, which Shreddage doesn't have, and wrt. to articulations I think Shreddage is a bit more versatile. YMMV though.

Jorito Splash Supafly (Splash Warfly in Sigma Stage 2 [X3]) Hilf Dir (Tunnel Rhino in Sigma Stage 2 [X3]) Temporal Bliss (Magna Centipede in Sigma Stage 2 [X3]) Maverick Astley

Getting one of my remixes posted in the obscure flood was a pleasant surprise for sure. Great to see something different from the more common game soundtracks posted, especially some MSX tracks!

That's hard to believe, since I saw your initial Maverick selection: 1) Crystal Snail 2) Crystal Snail 3) Crystal Snail 4) Crystal Snail 5) Crystal Snail In my case, I never played any MMX game (nor Megaman for that matter), so I didn't have any real connection with these Mavericks. I started out with Gravity Beetle as 'okay, I can work with this' and that hasn't changed that much I guess, since I still find the first half of the track a bit weird and still like the second part Anyway, good stuff, looking forward to the tracks for the final round!

Very cool rendition of a classic MSX game song I grew up with (this might have actually been the very first game I owned!). IIRC I actually picked this source for PRC, great to see it posted! I've heard a number of remixes of this source, but never one in this genre. Love me some psytrance, and combined with a cool source track and a dose of nostalgia, what's not to like? Next mission: getting more MSX tracks on OCR!

I can't speak for anyone else, but while it was a very entertaining and creative run where we got to rickroll the rest of you for 9 weeks (high five to my Maverick Astley bros!), I'm also pretty beat and wouldn't mind a break. And a big shout out to Darkesword for again hosting a cool compo Now all that's left is to vote for the last round, wonder how my team did in the rankings and polish up my songs and submit them before I start remixing some other tracks!

At least you had a few drinks to try and help forget bullets 1-5 Really curious what everybody will cook up in the last round!

Jorito We are Many, We are One (Boomer Kuwanger in Gate's Laboratory [X6]) Beautiful Bloody Bats (Dark Necrobat in Gate's Laboratory [X6]) Gate's Secret Dream Lab (Shield Sheldon in Gate's Laboratory [X6]) Maverick Astley

Yay, welcome back! Just sent an updated (nearly completed) version of my track.

Semantics, schmemantics, if you just say "grow" in stead of "grow up" I think there would be less misunderstanding. Having said that, have fun on your travel learning more cool stuff. Orchestral music is only one of the great things on your path