SimonViklund Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Hi everybody, My name is Simon Viklund and I'm a music composer/remixer/interpreter who has been working in the game dev industry since twelve years back. Some of you my recognize my name - I've done some work for Capcom (the Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack being my most acclaimed piece of work). I've gotten in contact with the videogame speedrun community Speed Demos Archive and they run an annual charity fund raising speedrun marathon called Awesome Games Done Quick. The first year they raised $22,000 and each year they've been more ambitious and raised more money - last year they raised $149,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation! I wanted to help and somehow make video game music remixing a prizes for the live stream, to entice and motivate people to donate more money. What I came up with was this: People can attach text messages to their donations, so we encourage donators to write down their piece of videogame music. Winners will be chosen by determining who made the most generous donation by a certain time limit during the speedrun marathon. The winner then gets the honor of having his/her favorite music remixed by talented videogame remixers! Remixing has to be done while the marathon takes place - I would suggest that you try to be finished with your remix in 12 hours or less so that there isn't too much of a delay from when the winner is appointed to when the prize is distributed - and the final song has to be mp3 encoded and sent to the marathon organizers so that they can put it up on their site while the marathon still goes on. The winner's remix prize will be a free download for everyone who visits the site. If you have a web camera and can stream an image from your working environment as you're creating the image, that would be wonderful! Streaming the creation of the art live would go so well with the internet and "live stream" concept of the entire event - people will be able to see videogame speedruns live, make charity donations, win prizes, see their prizes be created by the artists in live streams! It'll be cool! Do you want to be a part of this? Contact me immediately on this forum! The marathon starts on Sunday the 6th of January 2013 and goes on for one week, day and night. Let's help fight cancer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Mokram Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 My name is Simon Viklund Holy crab, Simon Viklund posting on OCR! Thank you. My life is now complete. I'm a huge fan of your work and of SDA as well. Can't believe this is happening while I'm without my music gear, or I'd have joined in a heartbeat. You'll most likely find a lot of talented people here on OCR, ready and able to assist you with this noble endeavor. Good luck sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett Williamson Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Hi everybody,My name is Simon Viklund and I'm a music composer/remixer/interpreter who has been working in the game dev industry since twelve years back. Some of you my recognize my name - I've done some work for Capcom (the Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack being my most acclaimed piece of work). I've gotten in contact with the videogame speedrun community Speed Demos Archive and they run an annual charity fund raising speedrun marathon called Awesome Games Done Quick. The first year they raised $22,000 and each year they've been more ambitious and raised more money - last year they raised $149,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation! I wanted to help and somehow make video game music remixing a prizes for the live stream, to entice and motivate people to donate more money. What I came up with was this: People can attach text messages to their donations, so we encourage donators to write down their piece of videogame music. Winners will be chosen by determining who made the most generous donation by a certain time limit during the speedrun marathon. The winner then gets the honor of having his/her favorite music remixed by talented videogame remixers! Remixing has to be done while the marathon takes place - I would suggest that you try to be finished with your remix in 12 hours or less so that there isn't too much of a delay from when the winner is appointed to when the prize is distributed - and the final song has to be mp3 encoded and sent to the marathon organizers so that they can put it up on their site while the marathon still goes on. The winner's remix prize will be a free download for everyone who visits the site. If you have a web camera and can stream an image from your working environment as you're creating the image, that would be wonderful! Streaming the creation of the art live would go so well with the internet and "live stream" concept of the entire event - people will be able to see videogame speedruns live, make charity donations, win prizes, see their prizes be created by the artists in live streams! It'll be cool! Do you want to be a part of this? Contact me immediately on this forum! The marathon starts on Sunday the 6th of January 2013 and goes on for one week, day and night. Let's help fight cancer! Well hi there! Geesh, wow! So the idea is that we send a remix starting the 6th for a week and one person wins and money goes to cancer patients (or something of that sort... I really hope I'm not sounding rude... I'm just trying to make sure I have this right) and the winner gets his/her remix made a free download on the site? Slightly confused on the rules. If I got it right, then cool. I'd like to be a part of this. But of course, I probably wouldn't win. But I'd still love to contribute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyRiderX Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I'd love to sign up for this! My only question is how do find soon do we find out what we're remixing? Do we wait until the time period is up and then start remixing? As for doing it live I could do that too, I'd just have to know what kind of stream they want- skype, livestream, etc? Also do you want it to be a stream of the program to show the progress of the song or just us making it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argle Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Sounds kind of interesting but the deadline is way too fast for me. Good luck though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexstyle Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I tend to work quickly, or at least I have the ability to do so. Messaged you, Simon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannthr Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I'm into it--12-hours is a tight deadline, can we choose what day is good for us? My mom just died of cancer a few months ago, so any way I can use what I do to help raise funds for this would be of great meaning to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonViklund Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 Hi everybody, and thanks for the responses! I've emailed the head of the crew that arranges the marathon twice but haven't heard back from him. I'm starting to suspect that the VGM remix prize isn't happening, but I'm trying to get a confirmation on that. We weren't in contact the last month before the marathon should start (it started about 23 hours ago, as I'm writing this) so maybe I dropped the ball - but we had been in contact since last summer and I've been discussing the collaboration idea with AGDQ enthusiasts on their forum and everyone has been psyched for it. Maybe we can make it happen the next time they arrange a marathon (they do two each year). I'll keep you all posted, and I'll send personal answers to everyone who's PMd me. Thanks again! /Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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