this will be so much fun, hyped, i will do entries for t his

nice

i hav come from the future to tlel you all that this is a good good batol

shape the future - of battle of the bits...

microtone batol [ ]
something else i dont know yet [ ]

puke can i do sideboob again

heres some ideas I have though I cant art, so if you like them maybe you could art them;

Stream of consciousness; - through-composed music (ie no loops). allgear

Amen Sin 3; remix

Etchmodit; 4k, 8k, drawn waveforms only

Cacophony; Dual Stage like detroit. First stage is people submit something in the 'vocal' format. Second stage is remix those vocals only to make a track. You dont have to keep the 48hr rule though for making the track if that makes it easier to create the battle.

Its game jim, but not as we know it; tic80, doom, boom, html5
Make a sci fi game or level

Four Affinity; Only 4 colours allowed, draw a creature. Pixel/draw/visuall

Visual Novel; pc9x-01

Piano Demo; Make something that sounds like it would be the demo track of a piano. MT-32, midi, musescore

Chipscape navigator; make using only your browser. baby-k, jummbox, pixel, draw, wildchip, html5 (if there others feel free to add)

MPTone; make use of a different microtonal/xenharmonic scale. OpenMPT

Soundchip R&D; give the design specs of your ideal soundchip. This can also make use of some of the more soundchip-speculative software out there. wildchip, sunvox, jummbox, klystrack, bytebeat, puredata

yo gtap, heres the first one. thanks for the idea: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/DRAWN+WAVEFORMS+ONLY%21%211/47896/

this battle rulz

@gotoandplay guess who can help on the Piano Demo! ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJDXayM5FM

can there be more than one format in a future battle? the rules say "pick a single format" so for most of gotoandplay's (awesome) suggestions, would someone just be picking one of the possible formats? some of them would be cool with multiple but i could also see that being overwhelming for a month-long major, so i thought i'd get clarification

this is very cool btw, i do plan to submit to both although i'm still formulating ideas

The factory demo song idea is nice, it would make for cool cover art too, as demo song data floppies and patch memory cards often had interesting aesthetics. Some examples 1/2way down this page https://taraswolf.com/yamaha-sy77-music-synthesizer-1989/

Would be down to try and make something like that..

@dami some folks are going to ignore the "pick a single format" rule and that's ok, but it also makes it much less likely for me to pick them as majors since they'll need to run longer than a month and we already have a crowded annual schedule for larger majors

can you submit a battle to either format of this battle? or is there one format that is only the cover of this battle while the other is for the battle ideas? is it possible to understand what i'm saying?

chip battle art is for chip format based battles
mix battle art is for allgear (or non-chip) format based battles

...i guess... :D/

I guess that makes sense, I guess I thought the only reason why Chip battle art was separated was because of the size restriction.

Pxtone is basically a chip, right...?

pxtone is a music-software

lol

Ah, sadly I can't submit my every idea as covers, so I will just put them here.
Maybe I should make an alt for this haha

Ideas:
- Folk Music
- Acoustic
- SUNVOX MEGABATTLE
- HARDBASS YOPTA
- Microtonal
- Make a Synthesizer
- Poetry
- Godot Engine Game Jam
- Traditional Painting
- CRAYONS
- DIY Instruments (including acoustic)
- Photography
- Lomography (lofi photography)
- CGI BATTLE
- URGE TO ANIMATE
- ? (Mystery theme battle)

I may spend my second entry on the folk major so...
If anyone wants to Collab on a piece I am down!
If anyone has some really cool ideas for a battle that they can't draw up for whatever reason, send them to me plz! If they are cool enough, I will draw them up and you can submit them (tagging me as a collaborator)
Especially Visuall type battle ideas (Because I want to see more visuall majors)

metal 7 (or more specifically grindcore major)

Tfw still no Yamaha XG MIDI

missed the deadline :(

Average Score: 24.265

holy crappe

i think we're done with Future Battles II

Vol. III is looking wowowowow

thank you to everyone for participating in all battles
especially this series that lets the botbrs steer their own destiny

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