Messages

The end is near! Repent!

I'll judge tonight. Anybody else want to submit something?

I do see your point, but in fact the tendency to use General MIDI for music in AGS games (or for any sort of music, in fact) is one that I for one would love to see die out entirely. MIDI is neat for interfacing and device-independent storage, and I suppose it can be good for planning out compositions as well, but using General MIDI for actual user-side playback? Ugh.

However, these are my views, and maybe I shouldn't let these enter into this so much. Which means I should judge MIDIs equally. Sorry.

Because it's your entry, not mine. It's about your skills in creating and/or manipulating sounds.

You probably weren't serious about the recording your MIDI song through your speakers thing, but just in case anybody is thinking of it, don't be silly. There's no point unless you're doing any interesting soundfont-wrangling.

I have nothing against submitting MIDI files along with proper versions - being able to examine it more closely is a good thing, I definitely agree with that. However, I also think sound design is a very important part of music, and the potential for that is zero with General MIDI. I won't kill you or refuse your entry if that's your only option, but I'd like to see something different if it's at all possible.

(thanks, Arch - I'll comment when I judge)

Yay I'm in ^,^ btw, does no time signature count as an odd time sig? Could I have, say, a third of the piece in 5/8, then a third in 4/4, then a third freestyle general instument bashing against walls?

Sure, that's good too.

Two questions:

1) No MIDIs? What then? MP3s only or module tracks are fine too?

2) What -uh- excactly are "time signatures"?!

1) Well, if you can't use a proper format because you're not familiar with any software that allows you to, then sure, you can submit MIDI files.

2) I don't have time to explain now, look it up. If you make music, chances are you know them, just not that "time signature" is the English term for them.

...and the relevance of that rule for modern Christianity is questionable as well. Are you interested in outlawing shaving one's eyebrows in mourning, or shearing the firstborn of one's sheep? Do you want to force people to build railings around their roofs?

This week's topic:

WRATH!!!1

Music that illustrates all kinds of ire, anger and fury. From adrenaline-fueled nihilistic rage against ostriches to annoyance over broken dishes to divine retribution, complete with smiting and locusts.

Odd time signatures for at least half the duration of your track, please. If you hate, say, 7/8 and it makes you want to smash things, so much the better.

No other restrictions, but do try to avoid submitting MIDI files if you can. The crappiness rather tends to spoil the mood, I'm afraid.

Yayness! Thanks. I'll start the next one ASAP.

And as a treat, here's the song I would've entered (even though I made it several months ago.) http://www.eviltrailmix.com/lemondemon/downloads/Correctional%20Facility%20Food%20Sucks.mp3
It's total ear-rape, although it doesn't quite match MrColossal's friend's song.

That is the best thing. I'd have loved to do something more like this, but I just don't have enough different sources for samples, at least not while my TV card doesn't work.

Seems to be 11/8. I didn't pay much attention to that, though, because I was concentrating on hearing the awesome in it, which is in quite abundant supply. Nice to hear somebody try a completely different angle, although I have to say it ends up sounding rather jazzish and non-weird.

I didn't feel like submitting another if nobody else was going to, but since they did now:

Save the children! Again!

Making the other involved a lot of cutting up long recordings and stuff; this one is 99% live. Hurrah!

I tend to listen to albums rather than individual songs. I'm without music right now, but while working on a synthesizer yesterday I noticed how well Autechre's "Incunabula" goes with programming.

I've been meaning to participate in the tune contests again, and it'd feel horrible to let this one pass by.

Save the children!

Something I whipped up in an hour or two... if I have time, I'll do a more interesting one later. I wrote a lot of the software I used myself, if that counts for anything. (given the topic, I think it should, but obviously no one could call me unbiased on this )

And since Mexico and Canda are still foreign markets to the US, the phrase "More and more of our imports are coming from overseas" is still stupid shit from a very powerful retard.

I wouldn't say retard. I'd say spoiled rich boy and dry drunk.

Here's a still bigger version of the map. I can even spot my own city on this one.

As for the Russia thing - isn't it just because there are so many more people in the Western part of the country?

No, Day of the Tentacle is what you'd call a sequel. There's a place in DOTT where you can play the original Maniac Mansion, though.

Apparently (as 30 seconds of googling told me ) the usual dimensions are 5.25 inches (133 mm) by 7.5 inches (191 mm) for the front/back cover, and half an inch (13 mm) for the spine.

I don't think it's enough of an issue to necessitate that much messing with established names; there aren't so many script functions that forcing them all into one scheme would be worth it. Beginners would have to do a lot of looking things up in any case, so why break a working system?

Before I had a problem with SetCharacterView versus ChangeCharacterView. One worked, the other didn't. But why the two seperate commands for what seems to me to be the same function?

They're quite definitely not the same at all. Check the documentation - they're intended for entirely different purposes.

That's great. There's a bit at about 1:00 where the rings very visibly pass through each other that I didn't like, but otherwise it's brilliant.

I have the exact same recording of that Satie piece (which I think was a very good choice for the music) on a CD here, interestingly.

I can't say that I know a lot of my family's history, and what I do know about it isn't that interesting.

My mom's last name, Geier, was thought to be the german word for "vulture" (I looked it up in the german dictionary... apparently not true...)

But it is. Odd dictionary you have there.

This thread is over.