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I think it's a good idea to mention those kinds of things and at least try to urge people to think along those lines . It is a theme based competition after all. It's hard to say how you'd judge 'production' when you can have something that's just straight recorded from a gameboy/famitracker ect. versus something that has post processing on it or uses a DAW. Perhaps we can leave it to the description of the song by the artist to tell what they used briefly to make the tune and judge production from there? I'm not trying to start a "Fake bit/post processing" V.S "purist chiptune" debate here as it's been done so many times, Nor am I demanding that it be mandatory that artists tell us what they used and how. Just that getting the most out of a tracker in it's raw form VS (mastering) a track with more modern effects to give it more punch are two different types of skill from my point of view. I'm sure everyone has different views on that type of thing. I do think that in general the more we know about the process of the creation of a track might be as important as the end result when judging it's production. I think it would be beneficial for those who care about those details so that they can more accurately rate production accordingly. Urging musicians to think along these lines when voting, as well as share with us what they used to create it could really prove to be a great thing in the future if  it is done well.  Again, like 8 Bit Rex I think these things may not be as important until this compo grows a bit, but I like where this train of thought is going very much .

Cool! Welcome aboard man .

I admire the music of a chiptune artist sure, but since I know next to nothing about them as people I don't have enough information about them to become "star struck". Then again, I was never one to be star stuck by celebrities in main stream things either. It's more like I enjoy this artist/actor/band because they have skills I'd like to pick up on a little . However, in their personal lives I have no idea what kind of people they are so it is a bit illogical  for me to get all hyped up about a perceived image that may or may not be true . In any case there are awesome "known" and unknown artists all over the place. I listen to the music they make and I like what I like. It's as simple as that.

So wait...did I just win due to default? I'm not really sure how to feel about that one...

LOL!

Yeah, that was my thought too. Either way I had lots of fun, and I'll most likely be down for next week's theme as well . Maybe I'll dust off famitracker next time .

Congrats 8-bit-Rex!