Tune Contest March 22 - 29

Ghormak · Mon 22/03/2004 00:11:54

Victory is mine! Tune contest is yours!

Your task is to create a "travelling theme" for an old-schoolish fantasy RPG. You know, the "walking in the forest" kind of music. I even have an example to show you, it's a "cover" I made of the theme from the old C64 game "Wizardry". Click for inspiration.

The only restriction is that you must have fun. OBEY THE RESTRICTIONS!

Peter Thomas · Mon 22/03/2004 09:16:03

yessir.

psst: By old-school, does that mean you want to hear the almost midi-feel that was present in your cover. Or are 72 part orchestral suites okay? (well...not really...obviously...really...)

Ghormak · Mon 22/03/2004 10:44:01

The sound doesn't matter. I'll be judging the melodies and overall feel of the tune rather than what instruments you use (or don't use).

Ben · Mon 22/03/2004 22:56:26

I decided to update my entry with real isntruments and a few random changes:

EVEN BETTER Dragon-Warriory Music

Direct Tripod Link

AND teh ORIGINAL! :

TOTALLY OLD-SCHOOL Dragon-Warriory Music

Direct Tripod Link

Ghormak · Tue 23/03/2004 00:16:27

That'll do just fine, Ben. I'm not picky about looping. Great work.

(Also, remember that you don't have to use nostalgic instruments, you can do symphonic arrangements that sound just as old-school)

loominous · Thu 25/03/2004 20:48:09

Been ages since the last time I used a tracker, but for these things, they re unbeatable.

Entry

Edit: Some notes: I m aware that it s repetative (I would add some other parts to it, if I had sufficient ambition) and I m also aware of some dissonant parts that might not please the ear.

Peter Thomas · Sat 27/03/2004 10:45:54

ATTENTION!! NEW UPDATED FILE!!
No...this not cheating. It's still the same song, just a better recording of it, seeing as my previous one had some background noise. With this, you can hear certain instruments (like glockenspiel/harp) more clearly, but it's still the same, so it's allowed...

[fake english accent]

Hello there, little boys and girls...

Come and listen to The Jolly Little Forest of the Kingdom of Love!!

[/fake english accent]

Yes.... the name IS meant to be that corny. The scene I image here is the 'hero' wandering through the garden of the castle, hopefully to meet the beautiful princess at the palace gates. Hence the corniness.

And yet I still think it has an almost... niceness to it....

Oh well..... make up your own minds.....

P.S - don't mind some of the 'clatter' noises at the very very very end. As I was recording through a microphone, it's hard to eliminate the background noises, so just run with it.

Peter Thomas · Wed 31/03/2004 10:59:32

And the winner is?

Ghormak · Wed 31/03/2004 14:25:03

Whoops, for some reason I thought I wasn't supposed to judge it yet, and now I'm 2 days overdue!

Right, I liked them all. They were wonderfully nostalgic. But if I had to choose one winner (which I have to, because this is a contest after all), then I'd choose:

Ben!

Congratulations and celebrations, there's just something about that tune that sets it slightly above the other two entries (and just now I remember that I had a hard time choosing between your tune and Fuzzpilz' in a previous old-school themed compo I judged many moons ago, and I chose Fuzzpilz. So it's about time you win, I guess.

).

I won't go into any in-depth review of all the tunes, because the three reviews could be summarized in one word:

Awesome

Ben · Fri 02/04/2004 00:16:51

Hippo!

The entries were all great. Hope we can have more great tunes in the future..