Punchfest 18!

[SnappleMan]

PUNCHFEST 18 is scheduled for SUNDAY AUGUST 12st AT 2PM EST(11AM PST)!

THIS WEEKS THEME IS:

1995

GAMES RELEASED IN 1995

Originally Tibone had selected a fantastic theme for PUNCHFEST but I want to save that one for yet even another time (TRUST ME TIBONE NEXT TIME WILL BE IT I SWEAR!).

Any game on any platform that was released in 1995 is good. No re-releases and no ports! This is the first in a series of "year" themes that I'm gonna stagger around the next 10 or so PUNCHFESTS. Winner of a year theme picks the next year.

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NEW TO PUNCHFEST!? Basically it's a video game remix/arrangement/cover/yourmom contest that's held on the date above and follows the rules below.

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To participate, install an IRC client (mIRC works well) and come into #punchfest on irc.esper.net!

IF WE'RE GONNA PLAY THIS GAME, WE NEED SOME

RULES

- The time between now and PUNCHFEST is just so you can find a song you like. DO NOT START WORKING ON IT UNTIL THE PUNCHFEST BEGINS!

- You will have 6 hours to complete your song once we start. Do whatever you want once the thing starts, but when the 6 hour time limit is up you must have submitted something.

- You can use anything you want musically. Live instruments, just MIDI, trackers. Just make sure you submit an MP3 file of whatever it is you did.

- No minimum song length requirement.

- Submission is not anonymous!

VOTING

- VOTING IS BACK!!!! That's right! Voting is back. I realized that when we had voting, I cared a lot more and I worked a lot harder. When we got rid of voting I found myself wasting 5 hours of PUNCHFEST playing games or whatever and then spending the last hour crapping out some lame entry. I have a feeling that a lot of you feel the same way, voting will surely light a fire under our asses!!!

{:-> BONUS <-:}

NO BONUS THIS WEEK AS WE ARE VOTING AGAIN AND ALL THAT.

[OceansAndrew]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_in_video_gaming

hope some people here have the fortitude to enter! I am trying to clear my schedule so I can make it.

[Rexy]

I'm going in too! I sure hope I won't be distracted by the Olympics' Closing Ceremony though.

[EDIT: Wut... voting is back in? I don't know... I liked the idea of being 'me' in these compos rather than having to worry about what everyone else thinks. Now I feel really scared... ]

[OceansAndrew]

Now I feel really scared...

If you are scared, don't enter.

[SnappleMan]

If you're scared you make yourself enter and try to get over your fears and have an awesome time.

[Jamphibious]

Hmm, I'll be on the way home that day and I dunno when I'm getting in, but hopefully in time to do something for this.

Sounds like a super fun time. Gotta find me an awesome Sega Genesis soundtrack or something.

[Gario]

On a Sunday afternoon, eh?

... Sounds awesome. I'm in, for sure.

[Ethan Rex]

Wait, Chrono Trigger AND Earthbound came out in '95?

Got damn if Sunday wasn't move in day...

[Xarnax42]

Wait, Chrono Trigger AND Earthbound came out in '95?

Got damn if Sunday wasn't move in day...

Yeah, not to mention Lufia 2, Secret of Evermore, and Terranigma. Not quite equipped to compete right now, but I'll throw out a couple reques-*ahem*-suggestions for anyone looking for a source:

Worms

You Don't Know Jack

[Phonetic Hero]

Sunday the 12st, huh?

Too bad I'm stuck at drumline for like, ever D:

[Ethan Rex]

Sunday the 12st, huh?

Too bad I'm stuck at drumline for like, ever D:

Make your drummers play your music.

If they ask questions make them do pushups because THAT'S THE POWER YOU WIELD.

[jnWake]

Oh, this sounds so fun... But I'm busy on Sunday

How often is this held?

[Garpocalypse]

What the heck is this? Wish i saw it earlier.

I'm really tempted to give it a try.

So once I find a song to work on i'm on the honor(sorry, honour) system not to do anything with it until Sunday? Or is there something on IRC that will guarantee no one cheats?

[Prince uf Darkness]

By the way, I'll be there.

[SnappleMan]

What the heck is this? Wish i saw it earlier.

I'm really tempted to give it a try.

So once I find a song to work on i'm on the honor(sorry, honour) system not to do anything with it until Sunday? Or is there something on IRC that will guarantee no one cheats?

Yes, honor system. The point of this is to hone your skills and have fun going crazy trying to put a song together. The time limit of 6 hours is plenty of time for some people to get a complete song done, for others it's not even enough time to get 30 seconds of basic tracks done. In the end all that matters is that you have fun making music with a bunch of people. We thoroughly enjoy every song we listen to, and to this day I don't think anyone has cheated, since that takes away the very essence of what PUNCHFEST is about.

But I mean, if you're someone who takes months to get a 3 minute song together for some OCR project and you give me a complete 3-4 minute song in 6 hours, I'll be suspicious.

[Garpocalypse]

Sounds like fun. Love the title too.

Turns out 1995 was an awesome year for videogames, though to be honest i don't remember it too well since the Genesis was nearing the end of its life and i didn't have a psx yet.

I think i have something i want to do, i'll try my hardest not to think about it tommarow.

[Jamphibious]

Looks like I wont be getting home until 2 or so hours after it starts, but hell I'll gimp myself and work on something anyways in the time I have.

[ad.mixx]

stupid question stupid question. i have reading comprehension problems obviously.

Looking forward to this. It'll be short and fun.

[Obtuse]

Hmm, I'll be on the way home that day and I dunno when I'm getting in, but hopefully in time to do something for this.

Sounds like a super fun time. Gotta find me an awesome Sega Genesis soundtrack or something.

[Garpocalypse]

I loved my genesis right to the end but man that game was hard! I love a challenge to! Back when I picked up Sonic's Genesis collection i tried to play it again thinking there is no way this is going to be as hard as i remembered it being. It was.

[Garpocalypse]

Awesome Punchfest to those who were there.

I had no idea i could complete anything within 6 hours. Still a long ways from a one hour compo.

For those that couldn't make it here was what i did. Fixes to come and it may or may not go up on youtube.

http://soundcloud.com/garpocalypse/magicknightrayearth-bossremix

Looking forward to the next one.

[Gario]

Was going to be there, but then I blew my monitor. Go figure - hope the turnout was alright, regardless.

[SnappleMan]

Spectacular PUNCHFEST! as always! Thanks to everyone who made it. I was really busy today doing 10 different things at once but I still managed to get a song done. I should have a finished version of it up within a couple days.

Anyway, thanks again, and if you were new to this magfest I hope you "caught the bug" and will be back for more.

[Xarnax42]

Are the entries being centrally hosted anywhere, or do we just have to hope participants link they're tracks from here? Or maybe they'd be in the chatlog?

As several people mentioned, so many great games from 1995; I'd love to see what was covered and hear everyone's work.

Would have loved to participate, too. Stupid Afghans and their messed up clocks and internet and stuff.

[Rexy]

There's the original zipped archive. And he also took in Demonstray's entry in the last minute.

Strangely, after playing all the songs, Snaps decided to call the voting off because he loved clansmaneddie's song THAT much.

So, all that flustering for nothing