The Bi-Weekly Competition Thread {OLD THREAD} (Page 9 of 18)

We're on the voting stage right now.  You'll have to wait for the next one.  You can still vote however!

Ha, now you are a guy who I would love to see enter this compo HPizzle. I hope you do get motivated for whatever the next theme will be. I am pretty sure I will participate in this next one too.  I think 2player has got this one in the bag, but either way I had a good time .

It would be cool if we could somehow get enough members to work on a soundtrack for an entire fictional game someday. Get a nice story for a game and have different things up for grabs. Like put different people down for different things. Someone does a Title song, someone does a cave level, ice level, forest level, boss music ect. In fact, getting a pixel artist to make a cover for that type of compo would be all kinds of rad too like 2 player mentioned. Of course, that may be a bit too ambitious of an idea for now. But I was thinking about in the future .

Or, how about this? I was just thinking how even though everyone composes for the same setting the end results come out sounding so different. It would be cool to maybe have an album someday that showcases the best of this compo after it has been going on for a while. Make it a free download with some cool pixel art cover. In fact that could be quite an interesting incentive for winning! If you happen to grab the most votes for a theme, that song could be featured on a collection album entiled "Bi-weekly compo volume 1!" after there have been like 12 compos or something. Have a 12 song album for the work of 6 months of bi-weekly compos complete with cover art, maybe even artist bio's or something? Ha ha ha, I don't know I'm just spewing out random ideas for the future. I mean well, I swear . Long Live BWC!!

It would be a nice idea to work on during the voting weeks.

I thought about creating little competitions as well along the lines of challenges.  I'm a huge fan of limiting myself during my composing since It's a great way to learn.  Unfortunately it may have to be specific to LSDJ as I'm not sure how many other mediums work haha.

Ex:

- Write a 1 minute tune using only wav and noise
- Write two very different 30 second tunes, then combine/alter them to make a coherent single tune.
- Write a tune without any notes sustaining more than 2 ticks in a phrase.  (would more or less sound like beepola)
- Write 1 minute tune, then swap the PU1 and Noise channel chains/phrases and create a new coherent tune with them.

Another somewhat unrelated challenge could be emulating a specific sound (ex: crackling fire, frog ribbit, certain spoken words, etc.) without the use of Kits.  Would just be a quick like...10 second file to upload and have other hear the combination of channels come together.  Much like the tiger growls and shit from Megaman. 

Doing little challenges like this are almost like playing chess tatics (basically the chess game is started in an already developed board and you have a certain number of moves to checkmate in) and I find it to be fucking fun as hell.

Let me know what you guys think.  I'd be all about starting something like this on the side since it wouldn't take nearly as much time as this current competition.

I'll set that shit up tonight at some point then!

I think it'll start as just lsdj or famitracker for now and we"ll see how it goes from there.

If only I were an LSDJ guy, I just haven't gotten into it somehow.  Something about tracking with a D-pad and buttons drives me crazy. . Would famitracker with the famicom disk system channel acting as my "wav" channel be close enough?