Fifty.
drops mic, it plummets through the earth’s crust, the mountains ripple, maga goes out for ice-cream
I would stay up until midnight to get my songs, except that your midnight is my 3 AM, and I have work tomorrow…
Also note that it says you’ll get your songs before the end of April 10.
…this is true. And also directly related to why I’m not staying up until midnight.
OK, everybody should have their songs at this point. If you don’t, drop me a line. (And you can still sign up if you want to join in late.)
Three questions:
- I’m 95% sure this is the case, and it’s desirable. But is it OK for authors to get their games tested May 1st, by anyone, whether they’re in the competition?
- I’d be interested in helping test games after May 1st even though I’m not part of this. Can I get in the tester treehouse to help randomly test games, or is it restricted just to writers?
- How would testing from someone not in the writing pool affect judging?
Looking forward to what people come up with, in any case.
- Yes, it’s OK.
- I’ll probably be setting up some kind of tester exchange; all welcome.
- Not at all. Voting will pretty much be a free-for-all. You can vote for yourself, or for a game you tested, or whatever.
Can we “thicken” the songs chosen with another song by the same band (which isn’t on the list, I should add). Some of the songs I got are pretty promising, but sorta thin and abstract.
You can do whatever you want as long as it’s in some (perhaps vanishingly slight) way inspired by the song.
“Can we “thicken” the songs chosen with another song by the same band (which isn’t on the list, I should add). Some of the songs I got are pretty promising, but sorta thin and abstract.”
I think you can also pick more than one song on your list; that could help you to add some weight to your work.
Neil
For those of us already anticipating May 12, roughly how long will the judging period be? (I’m assuming the exact answer will depend on the number and size of completed entries.)
I was thinking a week or so. That may no longer be adequate. We’ll see. Three weeks, tops.
Cool. Thanks.
I would like to toss my name in for the tester pool. I didn’t enter because I didn’t think I could make a game in such a short time, but I have been following this comp with great interest and can hardly wait to see how the games turn out!
Okay, FULL LISTING GUESSING GAME.
Out of 50 intents and 400-some songs, there were 32 musical acts chosen by more than one person. (Only one song, though, which was in many respects the Perfect Shufflecomp Song.)
YOUR TASK, O Reader, is to guess ten artists on that list (ten, and exactly ten, per post). I’ll respond with a score out of ten. The goal is to be the first to score 10/10. (You can keep guessing if you so desire.)
The list includes:
- four comedy-oriented acts
- five British bands firmly in the Rock Canon
- two Pacific Northwest so-damn-indie bands
- eight female singer-songwriters
- four production-heavy acts at the alternative edges of hip-hop
and also a bunch of others.
I’m up for this!
- They Might Be Giants
- Lonely Island
- The Beatles
- Joanna Newsom
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Tom Waits
- REM
- The Rolling Stones
- The Who
- Yes
For special bonus points:
I’m guessing the song picked by multiple people is Stand by REM, right?
5/10. A strong start!
No!
- The Beatles
- Johnny Cash
- Eminem
- Tom Waits
- Pomplamoose
- MC Frontalot
- OK Go
- Weird Al
- Michael Jackson
- Pink
Here goes!
- Jonathan Coulton
- MC Frontalot
- Sleater-Kinney
- Sarah McLachlan
- Tom Waits
- The Beatles
- Massive Attack
- Tracy Chapman
- Beastie Boys
- Tegan and Sara
- The Smiths
- The Rolling Stones
- The Who
- The Beatles
- Dar Williams
- Sarah McLachlan
- Sheryl Crow
- Jonathan Coulton
- They Might Be Giants
- Death Cab for Cutie
P.S. Having survived 3 days working a booth at PAX East, I have earned today off. Today, I am gonna sit down and work on my ShuffleComp game. Because this is how I roll.