Feb 22, 2022 at 8:03 AM
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Geetings fellow denizens 
It's been a while since there's been an extensive community event of any sort, and I've already been sitting on this idea for longer than I wanted to. The premise works thusly: We create an array of original ORGs and attempt to fill out an entire OrgView with one entry per person(s), in a way that encourages even those fairly new to music production to get involved, thereby offering a fairly clear/convenient goal uniquely suited to our fandom of choice. Desiring to achieve that end, but still keep the stylistic options very open, I happened upon something of a solution - whereby the intention is for each contributor to work with a style that they already find comfortable, and allow works to be completed with minimum stress but no loss of substantiality.
Hopefully it's fairly self-evident what I'm aiming at here; I'm not averse to anyone getting fancy if it's is your thing and you're used to it, just that the point is not to try to be as full-on intense with the production as possible. This won't be meant to be an "ultimate exhibition" type of showcase, everyone can use what they already know to get the most number of quality tracks together in good time. There's no other particular theme or condition for entry, outside of a few limitations which I will outline henceforth:
-As stated, the idea is to have brand new compositions, meaning avoidance of transcriptions/remixes/reworkings of old ORGs.
-My preference would be to have all submissions be Cave Story-compatible, i.e. base instruments and no custom org waves, again to keep things straightforward and also maintain that true classic feel (no need to have to use OrgMaker 1 though).
-Submissions should be a length appropriate for casual-ish listening (potentially on loop), mostly meaning very desirably nothing very short or very very long. Nothing partly-finished either.
-I'm firm about keeping it to one entry per person initially. Members are welcome to collaborate if they want to, particularly if they're less-experienced, but these will still count as their only entry. Filling out every slot this way might be a struggle, but I also think we could hit at least over half very easily and I want to keep my options open until then.
Additionally, those more artistically focussed on the visual side of things (or both) are welcome to submit art for the OrgView itself. The images I believe have to be 320x240 to fit, and also some sort of properly Cave Story-related, not necessarily directly about music but something nice to look at while listening (think more in the vein of say, this, as opposed to this). Don't worry if someone else has already submitted, there's no competition here and I've got plans for what to do with them.
There will be some minimum expected level of quality, for both the music and the artwork. Anyone with very little experience is welcome to practice elsewhere in our facilities before submitting, I doubt there'll be any rush. I'm assuming there's probably going to be some more conversation about how everything should be handled before operations are finalised, but it should be alright to get started now based on what's already here. With 36 to try to compile, there's probably not a whole lot of point trying to figure out how to put them together until we've got a good number already.
Preemptive answers for some FAQs that haven't been asked yet:
Where do I submit my file?
Here in the thread is the best spot (feel free to try out our ORG tags), or you can send it to me somewhere else on the forums or on Discord, basically just make sure that I see it or any updates to it so I can add it to the collection.
Where can I ask for help with it?
Again, here should work as there'll presumably be ongoing feedback. There's extra information and discussion here in the rest of the Music subforum, and all of our main Discord servers have a music discussion section, most notably the OrgMaker Discord itself.
Noooo I didn't make it in time and now there's no space left!!! *literally dies*
Don't worry!! It will be easy to continue building on the compilation. Honestly that could be part of the plan, this is something that anyone could make a submission for and it could more or less grow indefinitely. Then if it this goes well enough, we can try it again with a different focus or format. At the moment I mostly want to see how it's going to work out.
Can I change or update my submission?
Yes, but I'd prefer not to have to do it too many times. Remember that the intention is for participants to work within their comfort zones
It's been a while since there's been an extensive community event of any sort, and I've already been sitting on this idea for longer than I wanted to. The premise works thusly: We create an array of original ORGs and attempt to fill out an entire OrgView with one entry per person(s), in a way that encourages even those fairly new to music production to get involved, thereby offering a fairly clear/convenient goal uniquely suited to our fandom of choice. Desiring to achieve that end, but still keep the stylistic options very open, I happened upon something of a solution - whereby the intention is for each contributor to work with a style that they already find comfortable, and allow works to be completed with minimum stress but no loss of substantiality.
Hopefully it's fairly self-evident what I'm aiming at here; I'm not averse to anyone getting fancy if it's is your thing and you're used to it, just that the point is not to try to be as full-on intense with the production as possible. This won't be meant to be an "ultimate exhibition" type of showcase, everyone can use what they already know to get the most number of quality tracks together in good time. There's no other particular theme or condition for entry, outside of a few limitations which I will outline henceforth:
-As stated, the idea is to have brand new compositions, meaning avoidance of transcriptions/remixes/reworkings of old ORGs.
-My preference would be to have all submissions be Cave Story-compatible, i.e. base instruments and no custom org waves, again to keep things straightforward and also maintain that true classic feel (no need to have to use OrgMaker 1 though).
-Submissions should be a length appropriate for casual-ish listening (potentially on loop), mostly meaning very desirably nothing very short or very very long. Nothing partly-finished either.
-I'm firm about keeping it to one entry per person initially. Members are welcome to collaborate if they want to, particularly if they're less-experienced, but these will still count as their only entry. Filling out every slot this way might be a struggle, but I also think we could hit at least over half very easily and I want to keep my options open until then.
Additionally, those more artistically focussed on the visual side of things (or both) are welcome to submit art for the OrgView itself. The images I believe have to be 320x240 to fit, and also some sort of properly Cave Story-related, not necessarily directly about music but something nice to look at while listening (think more in the vein of say, this, as opposed to this). Don't worry if someone else has already submitted, there's no competition here and I've got plans for what to do with them.
There will be some minimum expected level of quality, for both the music and the artwork. Anyone with very little experience is welcome to practice elsewhere in our facilities before submitting, I doubt there'll be any rush. I'm assuming there's probably going to be some more conversation about how everything should be handled before operations are finalised, but it should be alright to get started now based on what's already here. With 36 to try to compile, there's probably not a whole lot of point trying to figure out how to put them together until we've got a good number already.
Preemptive answers for some FAQs that haven't been asked yet:
Where do I submit my file?
Here in the thread is the best spot (feel free to try out our ORG tags), or you can send it to me somewhere else on the forums or on Discord, basically just make sure that I see it or any updates to it so I can add it to the collection.
Where can I ask for help with it?
Again, here should work as there'll presumably be ongoing feedback. There's extra information and discussion here in the rest of the Music subforum, and all of our main Discord servers have a music discussion section, most notably the OrgMaker Discord itself.
Noooo I didn't make it in time and now there's no space left!!! *literally dies*
Don't worry!! It will be easy to continue building on the compilation. Honestly that could be part of the plan, this is something that anyone could make a submission for and it could more or less grow indefinitely. Then if it this goes well enough, we can try it again with a different focus or format. At the moment I mostly want to see how it's going to work out.
Can I change or update my submission?
Yes, but I'd prefer not to have to do it too many times. Remember that the intention is for participants to work within their comfort zones
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Username Org Name
Infinityβ Crimson Fang
2DBro Fifteen Reasons
IdioticBaka1824 Log Cabin Etalon
StarlightChaos A Mere Journey Through The Cosmos
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