Ow. I think this counts as cruel and unusual punishment.
Speaking of:
Also, while we are being excellent to each other, an important subheading:
I’m at six songs!
Songs and pseudonyms ready to go when the flag drops, Chief.
(Edit: Pseudonym? Psuedonym? Spuedonym? Youdospym.)
What’s going to happen to all those unused songs? Can participants bundle songs up, or make more than one game?
Also, how will you handle multiple people submitting the same song? Just ignore it?
To the second and third questions: yes and yes. To the first: by default, nothing, but if you know that you won’t be using certain songs, you can return them to me, and I’ll put them back in the second pool for distribution to late arrivals.
If that happens - which I hope is unlikely, because you will all, I hope, be planning to pick songs that your recipient may very well not have heard before, because otherwise what’s a mixtape for? - then I’ll quietly drop it and go to second-pool songs. Or if there isn’t a second pool available, just make sure that the beams don’t cross.
The pseudonym thing brings up a related issue: my former assumption was that the list of songs you received would come with (submitted by John Doe) bylines. It’s nice to know who to thank, or who to blame, for introducing you to cool new stuff.
I think I’m still going to be doing this, since the pseudonym thing is not intended to be super-serious, but if anybody has qualms about it, now would be a good time to air them.
If we’re handing out the pseudonyms with the song lists, I don’t see how bylines for the songs could matter, unless you’re worried about some variation of the old riddle about the two barbers going on. I don’t see that as a problem unless membership is really low and/or a lot of people double up on songs.
While I’m still here: what is the policy on really long songs? I’m considering adding a song to my list that’s almost 30 minutes long. Would that be kosher?
Permissible, sure - there’s no obligation for recipients to listen to all the songs all the way through! Which might not make it the most pragmatic choice, particularly if it doesn’t start to get really good until around 18:25.
Where are we submitting these? I may have missed that.
Submissions aren’t open yet: they’ll begin once I’ve broken the back of the XYZZY-organising work. Late March/early April. This is just a thread to crowdsource my scheming.
While we’re crowdsourcing, what are your thoughts about a time limit? I feel as though a strict time limit like EctoComp’s would be very stressful, which is probably the reverse of what’s intended; in my EctoComp I was constantly clocking in and out and trying to check whether I had burst through the three-hour limit (which, I must confess, I think I did by one minute) so that the time limit became A Thing. I feel as though something like “You have two weeks to submit your game for playtesting after you get your song list” would be more user-friendly.
JUDAS!!!11
Oh, god, yes. Probably 3-4 weeks coding, 1-2 weeks testing.
I’ve had a lot of fun and made some OK games in true SpeedIF events in the past, but I’m personally kind of over them - partly because I’m not nineteen any more and no longer have the level of focus required to code at full tilt for several hours at an inconvenient hour of night, and partly because, well, if I’m going to organise an event, I’d like there to be a decent chance that it’ll lead to a higher-quality game or two.
Great idea.
Is Spotify acceptable as an alternative music source? Anyway we could make a spotify playlist post-comp.
I’m not really Spotify-fluent. You need to make an account to use it, no? That’s acceptable, I guess, but more awkward than ideal.
Dammit now it’s getting changed and I gotta find out what Spotify is. How bout we just keep it as it was please?
Yeah, I hope I don’t need to use this new-fangled Email nonsense and I can send a floppy disk to the organizer.
Despite your predictable snarkiness, we WERE discussing a YouTube shufflecomp, not spotify.
I do not want to make a Spotify account, and I’m not even sure all my songs will be on Spotify.