I don't feel like writing code for everyone to submit their ideas for musical themes. So how about we come up with a list togother here. Everything isn't set in stone yet. Once we have a list of themes everyone votes on their favorite three. Then we anounce the three picked by Playas and there is a 48 hour period to compose and enter a song/tune for the selected themes.

here are some of my theme suggestions --
racing
battling
exploring
in a dungeon
in a town
dead
victorious

not sure, but should there be a difference between

"battling" and "Boss stage" ?

well, yes...

there is also

'miniboss stage'

water level
you just beat the game
title screen

Cool themes are: Victorious, Dead, Titlescreen / Introtune and Boss-Stage are good ones ;) So can't wait 'til 3xTheme Chip begins.. ;) here a little foretaste for an Introtune ;) :) :0<br><br>
<a style="text-decoration:none; font-size:30px" href="http://rattenrudel.gmxhome.de/files/ruggedsid.mp3"><b>Rugged SID</b></a><a style="text-decoration:none; font-size:7px" href="http://rattenrudel.gmxhome.de/files/ruggedsid.mp3"><b>mp3</b></a>
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...but not for this compo. I have released this tune for a C64 game called <b>Juggler</b> at a minigamecompo2006 as Introtune.

Is it additional necessary to know for which style of game a tune is for? e.g.:

Shoot'm Up
Beat'm Up
Jump 'n Run
Arcade
Adventure
Action Adventure
Logic
and so on...

All these suggestions make me "think specifics"

Rio makes a great point

we should really think of the game genre first, then the three categories.

Maybe... we should think of a video game concept first then the categories.

ex. "E.T.'s Revenge"

or "Super Popeye"

"Rally X: deathrace 98"

"Spelunkin' Downunder"

makes sense, no?

where are all the chippers at???

I work off blank's suggestion. Community should make some game titles and people try to create music for that game. Themes could be similiar to D II but as a game shit in your pants=Poopy Pantz Patrol, pirate's pick=One Eye's Burried Treasure. People, within the commuity, could then suggest characters or scenarios for game play ect. What would be cool is someone may write a tune for Detroit Drag-ster and others decide it is better for Awesome Wounded Warrior 6. If not game titles genre would be cool.

ok, a relisting---

intro/title screen
racing
Shoot'm Up
Beat'm Up
Jump 'n Run
dead
found item
battle
miniboss battle
finalboss battle
victorious
exploring / adventure
in a dungeon
in a town
water level
Arcade
Action Adventure
logic / puzzle
"I Won the Game"

Some of these seem redundant like three different types of 'battle'. And having genres listed like 'arcade' or 'adventure' when many of the themes suggest that type of game already.
<b>What do you think?</b>


Rio -- I hope some year I have the time to make an intro for <a href="http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/">minigame compo</a>! VIC*20 rules!!

Blank -- Well, I don't know about keeping all three themes to one type of game or even to gaming at all... a theme could be just an emotion or action like -- happy, sad, dance, lawnmowing, etc... but let's see what the people think! Selecting a genre of game gets Playas more on the same page but it also puts a limit on the attitude of the music.

aClone -- I sent out the usual mass email but I haven't been plugging away at message boards either. Maybe this is like how we thought nobody was going to participate in Detroit II because no one was taking interest in the sample portion of the compo.

DDD -- "Awesome Wounded Warrior 6" is a great title for a game.

But I'll tell you all that I am more inclined to listen to Playas with chipist points about what goes on here rather than the rest of you.

Perhaps we could have another compo in the future where there is a video game title and people could enter music and graphics to be voted upon....

One of the things about this "future competition" may be that people work in teams...those 48 can be lonely. As for list - the genre's are redundant with the themes - you don't need explore/adventure and then Adventure, as you so keenly highlighted. Found item seems to conjure a sound not song.

I would sort the list in two lists, so that people have to choose in 2 steps (but thats only my opinion - really important is the first step)

Theme:
---------
intro/title screen
miniboss battle
finalboss battle
level: jungle
level: dungeon
level: town
level: water
level: evergreen
level: desert
level: ice
level: space
level: foreign planet
level: highlands
level: medieval
level: futuristic
victorious
bonusround
endscreen
dead

genre (aditional, not necessary):
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Shoot'm Up
Beat'm Up
Jump 'n Run
Racing
Arcade
Action Adventure
exploring / adventure
Logic / Puzzle

so then i can choose:

level: ice -> Racing
level: space -> Action Adventure

...but problem is:

miniboss battle -> racing ;)

..because of that, the genre should be aditional.

level: volcano
level: overworld
level: underworld

i don't know if the genre thing is necessary -- we just want three themes -- do we get three different genres too or do we stick with just one? some of them could be levels too!

level: shoot'm up
level: beat'm up
level: racing

perhaps we should stick with just one genre at the moment.

But i do like the idea of having a proposed title...
It reminds of that ATARI documnetary we watched when the programmers were simply given a name for a game and then told "Do it."

ex. "Quest for Peter's pan" title (roleplaying fantasy game)


3 themes (that I would like to hear)

in a town

underwater

boss battle

i'm gonna try to try maybe and i like "in a town" and "dead"

pssst....."underwater boss battle"!!!!

I don't think that genres should be of any primary concern to us.

What will help us most is 3 very vague theme guides so that there will be more variety in teh submissions.

I second DaFuS's 'underwater boss battle' btw

i might be alone here, but does anyone work with the atari .sap format? it would be cool to have that, but that's more of an all around rules/guidelines suggestion rather than themes. are the formats gonna be the same as they were in winter chip I?

i finally looked into that .sap format -- downloaded the <a href="http://asma.atari.org/">ASMA</a> archive and installed a winamp plugin --
this POKEY chip kicks ass!
I knew there had to be something before the Atari ST .. thanx - i'm gonna work it in -- also was thinking of adding Adlib soundcard too

Okay- so "under water battle boss" is in the can, so to speak.

that leaves two left

hmmmm

puke7, look in the marek badkowski folder and the adam bienias folder. those are my two favorites. coincidentally, they are the first two in the "various" folder. marek badkowski's tracks are all good, but "fad face" is way awesome. adam bienias's "bitter reality" set (especially "farewell") and "train" are really really really good. if this format's included in this comp i'll submit a track for sure... but it probably won't be too great.

i say we need more themes like legendary places most kids wish they could imagine like :

skull forest
lizard toast
mechanic duel
squirrel farm
left eye twitch
nothing rhymes with orange

you know... just to name a few!

water is nice... :)

dopeness. does everybody have their little game faces on? 3 days left-o. i hope underwater level and just beat the game get picked.

sure -- underwater would be fun but i really want squirrel farm in there!!

if squirrel farm is picked, i'm probably gonna write it fast. i imagine the music would be fast on squirrel farm

how long we have time to make these 3 themes? I hope more than 48h - 1 week is allright, because i've to work besides :(

one week starting Monday

"one week starting Monday"

are you saying that we have a week to work on these? because in the rules&info page still says 48 hours?

OH OK, i see that it's changed now. thanx

haha
i just did that...
i have been neglectful...
now i hurry up and do code before this thing starts...

is this thing on?

puke7: worst thing ever happened on the entire day....
i cannot change my avatar =( ...get ze mad php errors in my face!

<b>FIXED!!</b>
damn permissips....!

Hmm. this 3 theme thing sounds good :) Yeah, I'll give it a go on my Good old C64 DMC music editor

alright. i put up my 3 tracks. i checked them by hitting download and the file extension came up ".pokey" and should be ".sap". and on the page the chip says "sap" when it should say "pokey". if you reverse them it'll all workout like a gymnist.
gracias,
-captainmarmalade

Man, I just want to thank everyone for being patient with me and my buggy-ass code. I've been rather busy elsewhere and having a hard time staying on top of things... This 3xTheme chip concept was a bit more complicated then I thought it would be.
But,, damn, is it worth it!

Puke7: Im curious, what is deciding what the color of ones aura is? =X

:X

who knows!!!!!

your voting attitude

;X

so lighter colors means you give higher votes?

well, higher than the average vote for that object

So. basically. the brighter color, the cuter and cuddly you are!! :)))))

thanx for the red stars :X . so now im done voting!

my buddy Strobe cannot log into Battleofthebits and is crying .. anyone can fix that plz? :)

what is BotB doing when it doesn't let him log in?
i have to go to work-
will be back in 7&frac12; hours...

I created this account (Strobe), and it works,
but i cannot view certain members profiles :o.
such as tadpoles, kmuland, and Strobe.

this is what it looks like when i try to log on with
Strobe.
http://jaedernaub.ath.cx/botb2.gif

or hey. they only one i can view right now is Puke7 profile. everyone elses is blank for me.

I'm not sure what I did. I had to load some files from backup. Something to do with calling a track object was making the site crash and then the page wouldn't finish loading.
It's all fixed now...

yeeehaaa worx now :D

Now im confused :X should i congratulate Tadpole, or should i go buy myself a cake? :D

Breathe is listed as Number One on the song screen,
but my tune is listed as Number One on Best overall ;D

anyways! splendid compo, and big hugs to everyone!
keep up the chipping!

HaHA-- I hadn't implemented the new vote tally system into the song list yet... fixed!

no! =D its still the same here. *giggles*

Hi Puke7, in the members profile you can see witch "rank" your mods have become in the compos, but witch category is the "rank" row ? I see my Underwater Bubbles have place 6 of 32, but this is the "setting mood" category, it is not better to show the Best overall Rank or the main category ranking ?

Strobe - I looked and yer on top of the song list...

Sly - the rank is incorrect -- by end of summer i plan to do a lot of rebuilding of BotB's guts -- and then the rank will be absolutely correct forever!!

hehehe. puke7...well :X

http://battleofthebits.com/barracks.php?username=tadpole

:D

Not that im complaining about being top on the songlist though :O .....its not like it makes me sad and crying.

@ Puke7, okay sounds good, btw. you do a very great job here ;-)

Thank you very much. ;P

wowzers! i didn't even expect to place in this competition. awesome. there were a bunch of really good songs in this comp. what's the next competition gonna be about?

shh....

it's a usurprise...\

i can made some coverart in pixel from the next competition i dont have any problem! =)
Some of my works (alls in 1)
(http://www.iloveui.com/pixel/pixel.png)

yeah nice site, nice picture. Cool guy on bottom on main side. do you paint all with hand?
if you are fit, i need a gfxian for some projects. What do you think? send me a mail.

Yeah, Ui, your site kicks ass!
I've been thinking about asking you to do some graphic work but haven't come up with anything specific. Maybe we could use some new sets of trophies?

=P thx ^^
Well Rio, i was seeing this site (www.pixeljam.com), check the games (i can made some graphic like this or better) you can say me more by mail.

thx Puke7, say me want you need, i guess i can do it ^^