Lemonectric

My apologies! I've been working an exciting new excavation site with an unfamiliar team*. I'm cut off from the outside world unless I make the trek to a nearby village and ask some traveling merchants to carry letters for me**, so it's been difficult to maintain contact. It's rumored that deep within some nearby ruins, there sleeps an ancient technology*** that would allow me to communicate with you all at any time. I'll do everything in my power to recover this artifact and return it to its rightful place in the lobby of my mansion.
In the meantime, I believe Professor Rocket has contacted the project's current members.
Hoping you are well****,
Professor Lemon

*New apartment, new roommate
**I have no computer and don't feel like typing much on my tablet
***Willpower
****I am a poo poo

You can send it to hylianlemon at gmail dot com.

Just letting you guys know I started working on my track and I already have a 1-and-a-half-minute rough WiP. Will send an update in next week, or next week-end depending on my work schedule.

Awesome! Great to hear an update on that. Hylian and I have been a bit busy ourselves with ye olde life but we're still discussing how to best approach things like recruitment and project management so there's no rush, thank you for still having interest in joining in on this.
 
Also, might I add that both of our current mixers have done a superb work on their tunes so far, I can't wait till the day everyone can hear these.

So, I get a call that a package showed up at home. I didn't recall ordering anything, and I even checked my eBay and Amazon orders just to be sure. Nothing.
 
When I asked who it was from, all she said was "some video game place".
 
I had no idea what it could be. It would be about all day before I could even get back to see what it was, but I put that thought aside and went back to work. (well, not work, per se, but close enough).
 
But all day, my thoughts kept returning to that package. Game place? I should have asked more questions, but I couldn't call now, she wouldn't be home and I was supposed to be busy. But a "game place"? What could it be?
 
I racked my brain over and over, trying to think of what it could be. Did I order something, forget about it, and somehow miss the order during my search earlier? Did I accidentally order two of the same item, and one just now happened to be shipping (not the first time that has happened...)? Was it a glitter bomb? Did I piss off someone enough to warrant a glitter bomb? Probably, but then it was a question of who would bother sending it? None of the usual cheapskate bastards, that's for sure.
 
But then, for some reason, another, much better thought struck me: what if it was a gift? And not just any gift, a gift from a game company! Of course! The box wasn't from a "game place", it was from a game place, a place where they make games. Oh god, what could it be? Who could it be?
 
The list quickly narrowed as I went through it. Not Sega, as I don't own any of their stuff. Can't be Sony, they have a restraining order against me. Can't be Microsoft. Nor Gearbox. Not EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Valve... None of them make sense, as I don't really have any connection to them. Everyone, from A to Z, big to small, all of them didn't make sense.
 
Then it hits me. There is one company that might have noticed me. I bought some games and systems from them over the years. I've been involved in several fan community things over the years. Maybe... maybe they noticed me and sent me some sort of gift because... because... because REASONS! Yeah, some random exec saw my name and said "this guy... this guy right here, give him a free (insert product name here)! He deserves it!"
 
And I knew it could only be Nintendo that did it. Sweet, wonderful Nintendo. Their benevolent gaze swept upon me, and they saw I was just and deserving or some kind of crap, and they saw fit to gift me... something!
 
Lunch came and went quickly. I don't even remember eating. I was just trying to think of what they could possibly send me. A new Poképmon game? There isn't one any time soon, and even then, how would I get a copy so early? A New 3DS? Nah, too expensive, and why would they send a system? Some sort of non-game merchandise? I can't think of what, though. A poster? Boring. A soundtrack CD? Got it already, most likely. An Amiibo? Why would they send an Amiibo?
 
By the end of the day, I had deduced it could be only one thing. Only one thing that was new enough and big enough that they would (for some reason) decide to let me have it, for free, as a token of their appreciation for whatever it is I have done for them. I knew it had to be... a copy of Tri Force Heroes! I got home the fastest I have ever made that drive (without getting pulled over).
 
The box was just the right size for a game, with some room for padding to protect the sweet, sweet content. Maybe there was a Link Amiibo or something wit it! GET THAT BOX OPEN, my brain screamed. IGNORE THE PAIN, OPEN IT, it shouted. The tape on the box gave way to my desire to see what incredible treasure this cardboard box held.
 
...
 
It was just some Mighty Number 9 stuff. Some shirts and a plush cube thing. I guess the first part of my Kickstarter swag shipped, and it didn't show up in my email. Not as awesome as a new Zelda game, free from Nintendo itself, just for being a customer and fan.
 
TL;DR: My interest in Tri Force Heroes drove me to think I was getting a free advance copy of it from Nintendo, because my brain is stupid like that.

A little update to talk about album artwork! We're interested in having an Indiana Jones grail diary style of artwork for the project--essentially, little sketches of puzzles, traps, maps, and ancient carvings from various games with notes jotted around them. Like this. There could be some mixed media applications if you want to cook up a real thing and take a picture of it on a desk, or you could just do it digitally. We're open to ideas. At this point, the artwork isn't a high priority yet, but that's the kind of stuff we'll be looking for!
 
Of course, we're still looking for music. I'll jump in once I get a better sense of which games aren't getting claimed!

I want to play your levels, OCR people! Let's share level IDs here so we can find each other's maker profiles. (Some kind of search functionality would be a nice update for the game...)
This is my first one, made with mostly day-one materials:
Goomba Falls
D60C-0000-0019-D75A

Hmm, I get you. We'll see how it goes. More than two weeks seems a little long to me, but extension could be a possibility down the line if necessary.

Thanks, you two!
 
"Too chiptune," though? That's like saying you want less ice cream! 

Ahh, excellent! The original tracks are two of my favorites from the game, and this does supreme justice to the source material.  Funny enough, I never even noticed the common motif thread between the two until I heard them blended together here.  Nicely done!