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Location: Toronto, ON
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I am somebody who likes to tell stories. Stories through writing, drawing, but most importantly music. I hope you will take a moment, and listen to one! Pic made by LadyArsenic. Pure awesome. Banner by Mydnite, also pure awesome.
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Latest Flash Reviews
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Slow mo headshot FTW X'D
why thats worthy of even Korean cackling!
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Seriously too funny, very well animated, very well synched, good rips, humor at every turn. FAV'D!
Author's Response:
THANKS !!!!!!
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"Whale Retarditis... serious business D:"
I felt badly for Melinda too... man you're good with these freaks, and a nicely executed pun on Jerry, I feel the same way. The real tear jerker for me on this one was where Melinda is being tossed around to dance on stage like a puppet. I don't know why, but you have this knack of making me feel bad for these freaks. I'd adopt one, but... well i'll just give you 20 dollars, to keep em alive a bit longer :D!
Good for Melvin too, good luck wherever he's going! *nowhere good apparently?*
Keep up the good fight, well animated.
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I loved the first one, and the second one is only better. For those who don't like the negative filter (I think thats what it is when you put alcohol on the arm wound), I whole heartedly disagree with you :D!
That screaming, sudden flash of white intensifies the action so much more. Lets you know you've done something... painful. It does lag when that happens, but even THAT helps in my opinion, slow mo of the damage you've done. Think about it, alcohol on fresh muscle tissue? Oooof, the very thought makes me quiver.
The multitude of tools to use were awesomely awesome. Stitching was made more difficult, and the difficulty factor went up several notches. This I felt was a really fresh breath of air. I liked the first one, but found myself wishing it were more difficult. Here the added pressure of having a certain amount of time to save the person, with the tools added to making things more interesting. Measuring how drunk you need to get the guy to comfortably get by is another interesting factor.
Another idea to have is perhaps have gray stars randomly on the wound, or near the gold starts you have to press. If you accidentally click on one of these gray stars you damage the patient, and complications occur. That would really make things more difficult.
All in all, a brilliant game, good stuff jmtb02, good stuff indeed! Now i'm off to cut my leg again because it's every medic's dream to grow up to have to cut off their own appendage. That way patients can go "You're hurting me!" and you can go "I know >:(" and they won't know what you mean.
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Latest Audio Reviews
Hey TT!
Wanted a review, so here I r!
First this song loops flawlessly, so hats off for that. I'm excited to hear you have such an excellent opportunity to try your hand at some game development work! The experience will leave you all the wiser I assure you!
It would be easier to give you tips/suggestions if I knew what exactly this song was designed for. I know it's a practice piece but from now on every practice piece you make, you should have a goal for it. It's no longer enough to just practice, as a potential game composer you must take all sorts of visuals and weave them into your music to compliment the imagery.
From this piece I get a sense of village. A home of sorts. The flute and strings give me a more rural vibe then an urban one, so I assume we are in some kind of village. I also don't know if DS has the ability to play high quality samples. We're probably thinking some kind of advanced midi? If that is the case you've got your work cut out for you TT, making midi samples are difficult in the sense you can't rely on textures and timbres of instruments, more so just their sounds alone.
In terms of suggestions... hmmm. You've got good melody here, I wish I could offer you more criticism, but this little snippet is very straight forward, with no real flaw to it. I'd love to take a listen to other works you're developing and help you out there, just be sure to provide as much info as possible so I can make the suggestions as relevant as possible!
Keep up the good fight TT! Keep em coming!
Author's Response:
I shall now take your advice (as i always have) and start weaving specific images
into my songs.
As for a goal for this specific piece, i was trying for just an orchestral piece, cuz i had just gotten done watching august rush for the third time (my favorite movie of all time) and wanted to see if i could pan the instruments and alter the velocities to get it to sound like a small symphony was being recorded. As with my last techno song with the filter experimentation, this was more or less an experiment with instrument location and volume levels, trying to create the illusion of insrument location. through headphones i think i've come pretty close, but as always there's room for improvement.
It means a lot that you came by and dropped a review XD I always look forward to hearing what you have to say about my music because i basically hold you high above all other composers on the internet in my books XD
Thanks for the advice my friend! I shall take it to heart and mind and pracitce diligently for time to come at painting specific scenes and images. and even if its for the DS, im sure nintendo would try to offer him a Wii or gamecube version alongside it. If its been good enough to make companies turn and say "wtf how?" then im sure he would not be entirely limited to one gaming platform XD
Thanks again my friend!!
~Twistedtechnology!
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"Neat vibes, good percussion, good melodies :D!"
An interesting beat for sure :D! If I am not mistaken you are using Slayer for the guitar work here?
The beginning was something familiar as you already pointed out, so I wasn't too impressed by it, however after that you got quite creative with the piece!
Everything but the kitchen sink? I'm pretty sure there was some kitchen sink around 1:20, for I fear my kitchen sink and that part was somewhat scary D:
The song transitions somewhat awkwardly. You seem to have a rather good concept of making a segment, the weakness lies in tying them together. It is not easy, often really hard especially when you have as many moods and vibes as you do in this piece, jumping from one end to another.
Good percussion work though.
I didn't quite like the panning going on for the most part. It seemed a tad distracting, however I know some people who would love this kind of effect so I guess it's more of a personal preference then a technical one.
All in all, good stuff TWM! Keep up the good fight, and keep em coming!
Author's Response:
Yeah this is a slayer guitar action kinda song...messed around alot with presets and stuff ;P.
Haha, yeah the transitions, they started out as me trying to make them smooth (the first one) but after that I almost tried to take pride in how rapid and immidiate they were (a good example of this is between the heavy metal and the triplet based part, and between the bass part and the end).
OH MY GOSH..Just realized I didn't remember to put percussion at the end >.<.
Thanks for the compliment on percussion, that part more so just comes to me (being a percussionist).
That darn panning..I know it's only when I used the guitar preset on slayer called something like "Leslie" which had just the sound I wanted, and didn't know that it panned back and forth until the day after I submitted...because I had left my headphones at school. But yeah, some of my friends LOVE that it does that, while others don't care much for it.
Thanks Maestro, I'll do my best to keep putting stuff out ;P (hopefully at a quicker rate then 1 every 4 months).
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I've been listening to this song ever since you pointed it out to me, i've had little time to review but today is the day I keep my silence.
You've got an incredible voice for sure, and I think this songs strength shines out really at 1:40. Your voice really expresses itself well here, and the cello added some much appreciated bass layers to the song, and even though I felt it was powerful, I also felt myself wishing that there was just a bit more you know? I'm thinking swelling Double Bass strings, or perhaps even further louder cellos. Why? I felt this song's timbre was slightly too treble based. I'm using bass oriented headphones right now and still I feel there was a slight lack of bass.
Remember these are all personal opinions, let me tell you know technical wise, structure wise of course, there is no fault in this song.
Swelling cellos at 1:38, ace man, +30 respect points!
And then of course my own orchestra voices begin to speak and I wonder what this song would sound like with some further instrumental additions. In the original I felt the lonely few instruments were what made it strong, the additions in this song take away from the lonely feeling, yet do not fully give me a satisfying full experience.
I'm talking some fuller string sections, violins thrown into the mix, perhaps even a small solo with the main theme pure orchestra, some low brass, some ever gentle flutes, some sorrowed oboes...
it is definitely an inspiring cover, as well as an inspiring song...
Always rooting for you Jazza, keep up the good fight! You will be missed severely by at least one person when you leave for your service.
Author's Response:
wow man, one of the best reviews ever lol. a lot to learn from, and a lot to be thankful to hear from you, so thanks for taking the time
as for adding more, yeah i probably could have done more. i don't think i was expecting the reaction this got, i recorded vocals and piano at once, and the song only tool 2 hours to record.
thanx a lot man. i LOVE your music, i have u as one of my 3 favs if you didnt notice!! lol
thanx man
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