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Please don't make a new thread every time you do an interview. You have the one thread, just update the title when you have something new going on.

Sounds cool but I don't think you should make it tournament-style/bracketed. Just do a weekly compo like PRC.

We generally do not allow threads that advertise services. If you want to do that, put the pertinent information in your signature and be an active, contributing member of the forums.

Please stop speculating. v6 will be out when it's out. Also please stop answering questions in this thread.

Split the Wind Waker discussion to a new thread. Remember folks, for specific game discussion, create a new thread. This thread should primarily be about the Wii U hardware and ecosystem.

i am on the clouds now http://soundcloud.com/darkesword/

Really dreamy. Short but sweet. Not too interpretive but enough personalization to keep it fresh. Middle section is pretty. Nice performance too. YES

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Cleaned up this thread a bit, removing most of the rude stuff. The first post clearly states that this is a song is for non-profit, non-commercial use. Negotiation over rates is obviously part of any work-for-hire arrangement as well, so there's no reason to come down hard on someone making an offer to pay for a request. People don't complain about fulfilling requests for free in the requests forum. If you're interested in helping Rico out and making some spending money, shoot him an email or express your interest here. If you're going to rant about the nature of for hire work, there are blogging sites for that kind of thing.

This is clearly a job listing, and if someone is hired to work "under the guidance of [the] music composer, Jake Kaufman," then communication in the context of two professionals working on a game is not an issue. Those are the parameters set by the employer, and your personal experiences are not relevant. The listing clearly states that the sounds should fall under the artificial limitations of a 16 or 32 bit game, so SNES/PSX. The developer is not looking for existing sounds, and has clearly allocated money for a sound effects artist to create original sounds consistent with the sound design of the rest of the game (hence working under the guidance of the music composer). That's not for you to determine.

Don't post pictures that stretch the page.

TOOOOOOO short. A nice take on the source but like Vig said, it sounds like an intro. You've gotta develop more. NO

Not really hearing any egregious muddiness. Lofi sound is cool, a little iffy on the kicks. Nice arrangement. Really groovy. Interesting soundscape. YES

Point of order: whenever mentioning OCR, use the following: OC ReMix OverClocked ReMix OCR ocremix Not: Overclocked Remix Ocremix OCRemix OCReMix OC ReMiX

Already funded, but here's a Kickstarter for AW YEAH COMICS!, a really cool kid-friendly/all-ages comic book from the writer and artist of Tiny Titans. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1197720703/aw-yeah-comics

Yeah the difference with steam is that it doesn't actually make you jump through hoops. Steam makes things very easy. I can't see that kind of level of execution happening on a console.

Hardcore dungeon crawling RPG with cartography elements. Quite difficult, but also quite good.

Not a big fan of either Ennis or Moore, tbh. To each his own I suppose.

It was really really good.

Comixology had an Artifacts sale last summer; it was a Top Cow book that unified all the different Top Cow properties like Witchblade, The Darkness, Lady Magdelena, etc. Give it a shot, it's pretty good. Speaking of Top Cow, check out Madame Mirage, by Paul Dini and Kenneth Rocafort. Awesome book.

"Where to start" is a bit like asking "what sort of music should I listen to?" What do you like? Under appreaciated but worth your time? American Vampire should, in my opinion, be much more popular than it already is. Actually let me just quote something I wrote for thewingless on Facebook; he recently asked about comic book recommendations as well. Please keep in mind that I am primarily a DC superheroes guy. If you ask me for Marvel recommendations I can only really tell you about the Ultimate Universe, not 616 (i.e. the main Marvel universe).

I see it like this: anything that isn't 12-bar blues in this piece is essentially just original writing. Rough estimate puts this mix at ~135 seconds of actual 12-bar blues material. The thing about a 12-bar blues jam is that it's characteristic of that kind of music to just play the "head" (the basic melody) once or twice and then launch into an extended solo section that could take up much more than simply playing the head once or twice at the start and once more at the end. If you and I got together and played C Jam Blues we could riff for like 8 minutes just going back and forth with solos, but that song that we're playing is still technically C Jam Blues if we play the head a couple of times at the start and the end. Brandon's woven the head of the piece throughout this song, carefully reminding us, despite all the soloing and riffing material, that this is a remix of Brothers Bear. There's enough material here that sticks to the original chord progression to keep the piece on target, and the main melody does show up a lot throughout the piece. It's a good point to consider, but I don't think the ubiquity of the chord progression is grounds for rejection. Soloing and riffing is a staple of the genre. I think it's alright here. All that said, I think it's a solid track. Good playing, good balance between elements. No complaints here. YES

Comixology, as Larry stated earlier, is essentially the Steam of comic books. Nearly every single publisher, with the notable exception of Dark Horse comics, makes their titles available on Comixology. When you buy a comic book on that site, it's tied to your account and viewable on any device, be it browser or iOS/Android app. Dark Horse comics runs their own digital distro service that works similarly. Practically every publisher also synchronizes their digital release with print releases, so there is no waiting for digital books to come out. Speaking of comics, we have a comic book chatroom on espernet: #comicshop. Come and join us. Also I don't mind if this turns into a "Ask Darke about comics" thread.