DarkeSword   Administrators 🎮

Source usage SHOULD trump production. That is the main criteria people should be considering when voting.

Don't forget to vote people. Voting closes on SATURDAY at 2PM EDT. I don't want to hear people whining about how their vote isn't counted because they voted at 2:05PM. In other news I got permission from the Nana artist to use her image. She is also a fan of OCR apparently, which is cool.

Search around for "hooge" fonts. Those are the pixel fonts I use. Make sure you turn off any kind of smoothing in Photoshop, and use the right font size so that you don't get weird lumpy resizing. Concerning the Nana art, I've put a link to the artist's DeviantArt in the first post underneath the badges, and I've also sent her a message on DA asking her if it's alright that we use her artwork of Nana. If she comes back and says "no," I'll change the neutral badge to another character with official art if I can't find good official art of Nana. Anyway, back to the tournament.

I actually didn't know it was fanart. D:

There isn't actually any debate about that.

caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake

Oh also before I forget, I'm really impressed with this first round of remixes. Great job guys.

I think the musical notes look really bad in your sig design. Also your text looks like it's using font smoothing but you're trying to use pixel fonts. They end up blurry. Look at the badges; all the text is clear, sharp pixel fonts with very little in terms of effects. Don't use serifed fonts either. Using so many blending options on fonts like for the remixer's name doesn't look good either. I don't know why anyone uses embossed text anymore. Don't go overboard with that kind of stuff. Also there are jpeg artifacts all over the maverick official art. City backgrounds don't look good either; there's a little too much noise on top of them too. Don't put a one pixel black border around the sig either; put a white one pixel border that's one pixel inside the border and change the layer from Normal to Overlay, Screen, or Soft Light. Nana's badge is the bracket-neutral badge for the entire tournament. There will probably be one more badge for the final round but I didn't decide who I want it to be yet.

Please make your thread titles something that actually has to do with the topic, not just a vague feeling like 'curious.'

Inadvertently made voting threads for non-battles. Those threads are gone now. There should only be 4 battles to vote on this round. Edit: I agree on Prophecy's track. Had to check 2-3 times to make sure I had the whole wave file.

Remixes are up in the first post and voting is live in the social group. Please make sure you all adhere to the voting guidelines in the first post, as well as the Competitions Code of Conduct outlined in the stickied thread in this forum. Please note that voting ends on Saturday, not Sunday, at 2PM EDT. Make sure you vote. Remixers should also keep in mind that match-ups for round 2 will be devised by scrambling the pool of winners from round 1. Please don't bother trying to predict the outcome of your battle in order to get a jump on next week's remixing.

Imminently.

Badges are up. Art style this year will be heavy saturation, annoyingly vibrant colors. Try to work in a swoop like in the badges.

Zero Bracket matchups are up.

I have 10 out of 16 remixes. There are still 4 minutes to go.

Badges are not the same as sigs. The badges are the 200x200 images I make for the brackets. I'm going to make the logo and bracket badges. I just want people to hold off on making sigs so that they can match the visual style I come up with.

Everything is going to be consistently styled. Logo, badges, etc.

I was playing around with some ideas last night, but scrapped a lot of it. Going to try again tonight.

Too laid back for what I'm looking for, but thanks anyway.

That's right. This time around you won't be guessing who you're up against next round just by looking at how the voting is going. Once votes are tallied, winners are placed in a pool and I will generate the match-ups again based on that pool of winners.

Doing something new this year. Match-ups in bracket will be scrambled every round.

That one's fine.

Any track, although I prefer tracks that are SPECIFICALLY from those games. So say, the Dreamland theme from Kirby would be okay for Smash Bros., but Master Hand's theme would be better.

Hey guys. Posted about this a while ago in the Recruitment forum but I didn't get a lot of response. We really need tracks for this project and I'd like to get the music done in a very short time. I know you guys can bring really great music really quickly so I'm putting out an open call. The Apex 2013 album is an official album produced by OC ReMix for the Apex 2013 event here in NJ on the weekend of Jan 11-13. It is, as I'm told, the largest Smash Bros. Tournament event in North America. There are more games that will be featured there: Super Smash Bros. (mikeaudio) Super Smash Bros. Melee (radiowar) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (darkesword) Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition version 2012 (neblix) Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (phonetic hero) Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (jason covenant) Persona 4 Arena (darkesword) Soul Calibur V (oa) King of Fighters 13 (willrock) Pokemon Black/White 2 (theguitahheroe) I need ONE remix from EACH game. Primarily high energy, groove-based. I have Radiowar doing Break the Targets from Melee, and I'm going to be doing the main theme from Brawl. I really need other mixes though, and I need them FAST. Like, in two weeks fast. Hit me with your best shot guys.

I was very disappointed in the shutting down of Tabula Rasa. Seems like Guild Wars is the only thing NC really has going for it.