Amateur Game Composers Reviews

[Nikolas]

I know that this's been mentioned once (at least) before in this forum, but after 1 year and 3 months, it doesn't hurt to mention it again, right?

http://www.freewebs.com/amateurcomposers/

This is a site, dedicated to reviewing amateur games music. Run by Mark Rosenberg, the site is great in all truth. His reviews are always (as far as I've seen) on spot and Mark is doing this in the best way possible: with lots of enjoynement!

Bookmark it and support it, any way possible.

[Dualnames]

He just added you... that;'s why you tell us.. No kidding looks awesome that 4.5 stars on Ben Jordan 3 makes me wanna scream..

[m0ds]

It's a very cool site, and I really enjoy his reviews - which seem to be very fair. I've been bugging him to update, as the site has been extremely quiet for about half a year now. But it looks like he's added a review for The Great Stroke Off yay! The site is a very interesting resource for anyone with interest in AGS game music. So I agree with Nikolas, go read, go support But then we would say that, we're ags musicians :p

[GarageGothic]

I think he's a good reviewer in general, but it seems a bit strange to critique game music out of context, and I found his review on the original Shivah soundtrack a little mean. I downloaded the midis and I recognize all his points, but I don't recall that the music ever bothered me when playing the MAGS release of the game. In fact it suited the mood quite well.

[m0ds]

What do you mean by out of context? Listening to the music by itself rather than within a game? I suppose that is a little odd, but I used to listen to FoA, DoTT and other soundtracks constantly just on MIDI player, even at work. I'd even take MIDI music on tape with me when I was younger cos some of it I just loved so much. And I wasn't even thinking about the games, I just loved the music

[GarageGothic]

Yeah, that's what I meant. And I agree there's plenty of game music that is worth listening to away from the computer (back in the day I recorded the end theme of Golden Axe (C64) to tape so I could play it on my walkman). But while some game soundtracks, just like some film scores, stand strong on their own, I still think it should be judged on whether it fills the purpose it was created for.

[ManicMatt]

I thanked Mark for his lovely review of the music in my game Secrets, and gave him the link to my free album which he seemed to enjoy!

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Well, he listened to my soundtrack for Mind's Eye before he played the game and rated it more highly after playing, but he didn't feel the same way about The Shivah.  I'm not sure if you're implying that he isn't fair by listening to the soundtrack separately, but since he rated mine based on how it fit the game's mood I'd say he's pretty fair.  Also, it is just his opinion (which he's entitled to), and you have every right to say you'd rate something higher.