BogusRed Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Hello OCRemix community. I just wanted to let you know about a bit of exposure that OC Remix got recently. Google hosted a small Game Developer's Conference after-party yesterday to celebrate the launch of their video game iGoogle themes. Most of the music played during the event was OC Remix music and, while I wasn't there to witness it first hand, I heard from Googlers who attended that the music was very well received. Everyone enjoyed hearing a different spin on familiar tunes from their favorite video games. I even heard some people started to dance when a Zelda remix started to play. I'm just glad I got the opportunity to introduce the organizers of the event to OC Remix because they had no idea what music to play. They were all like, "hmmm. what kind of music to gamers like? house? techno?" and I was like... "OC REMIX BABY!!!!" +1 to all the remixers! Your music was well received! -BogusRed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big giant circles Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 that is awesome! thanks for the good news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Hello OCRemix community.I just wanted to let you know about a bit of exposure that OC Remix got recently. Google hosted a small Game Developer's Conference after-party yesterday to celebrate the launch of their video game iGoogle themes. Most of the music played during the event was OC Remix music and, while I wasn't there to witness it first hand, I heard from Googlers who attended that the music was very well received. Everyone enjoyed hearing a different spin on familiar tunes from their favorite video games. I even heard some people started to dance when a Zelda remix started to play. I'm just glad I got the opportunity to introduce the organizers of the event to OC Remix because they had no idea what music to play. They were all like, "hmmm. what kind of music to gamers like? house? techno?" and I was like... "OC REMIX BABY!!!!" +1 to all the remixers! Your music was well received! -BogusRed Awesome; wish I was a fly on the wall! Thanks for lining that up, Susie! Hell if anyone at Google has requests, I'm pretty sure folks here would hop to it. Gimme some more backstory on how you got us in there when you have a chance; I'm always interested. I gave you some Twitter pimpage: http://twitter.com/ocremix/status/1398497237! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasfen Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Wow, I didn't know there was such a cool OCR-related backstory to the iGoogle game themes! Thanks! Here are the themes, for those interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogusRed Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Thanks for the Twitter pimpage, Liontamer! A little back story... I was working with the project manager on creating some promo graphics related to the iGoogle game themes. The PM was asking his event staff what they wanted to do for music at the event. They weren't sure what to do so they added me to the email thread since I was into games. At that point they had no idea I was a Remixer or into VG music. I became extremely excited and told them all about OCR. I basically gave them a copy of a bunch of OCR music I had on my hard drive and they created a playlist from it. I never thought my passion and knowledge of video game music would come in handy at Google! I'm so glad I got added to that email thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcana Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 It's kind of neat where you'll hear OCR music played nowadays. I heard a few OCR songs played in the Nintendo Store in NYC actually, and asked the salespeople what song it was. While the person didn't know what the song was he directed me to OCR. Nice to know where the community pops up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 It's kind of neat where you'll hear OCR music played nowadays.I heard a few OCR songs played in the Nintendo Store in NYC actually, and asked the salespeople what song it was. While the person didn't know what the song was he directed me to OCR. Nice to know where the community pops up! Supposedly they play music from OCR all the time - I remember when a bunch of us from a December NYC meetup went there ('06?), we heard several OC ReMixes there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Yeah, Nintendo World has been playing OC ReMixes every time I've been there - it's pretty cool. They've even played my stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palpable Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 They've even played my stuff. I guess when there's only ~2000 songs to choose from, you've got to get to the dregs eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anosou Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I guess when there's only ~2000 songs to choose from, you've got to get to the dregs eventually. I lol'd Also, good work with getting OCR to some public ears I'm thinking about burning a few cd's with best of-mixes and dropping them off at some local gamestores just because I can. Everyone should do this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skummel Maske Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Agreed. I've done that a couple of times, and I play OCR-stuff at work quite often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Some guy once proposed to his girlfriend on-air over broadcast radio to Blue Skies Over Guardia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I lol'dAlso, good work with getting OCR to some public ears I'm thinking about burning a few cd's with best of-mixes and dropping them off at some local gamestores just because I can. Everyone should do this! Ah yes! At one point, I went to the GameStop at the Baltimore harbor and I heard some music that sounded familiar. They were playing tracks from Voices of the Lifestream! I asked to speak with the manager, whom I then asked about the music. He said "Oh it's this great stuff from OverClocked Remix!" (or something to that effect). Then I told him that I actually directed VotL and that pixietricks was my girlfriend (she was with me at the time). Really cool guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Some guy once proposed to his girlfriend on-air over broadcast radio to Blue Skies Over Guardia. Ha! You ever hear the footage of that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Unfortunately no. The story is linked in the review thread for the mix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 I didn't hear it, but during one of the NYC meetups we went to the Nintendo store, and Bahamut and PP pointed out DS's Ancient Hero being played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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