This is a simple note of appreciation to the site i've visited nearly every day for the past 4 years. To the place where everything started for me, to the great friends that have come and gone, and to great friends yet to be.

This site has changed my life and I often forget that in between rants about what needs to change and what is broken. Forget change, I have based my career, built everything using here as a platform.

So to the staff, to the regulars, and to everybody else. This simple note is for you ^____^.

no homo... except for you AlmightyHanz, full homo for you :3

So last weekend was Global Game Jam 2010. For those who are not aware of what teh Global Game Jam is about, LINK

http://www.globalgamejam.org

Essentially you make a game in 48 hours. I participated as our school wanted a shot at it. Strangely enough in our game dev program I was the only one who was doing audio so I had to do everybodies audio needs. 4 projects, 48 hours, full audio treatment? Hellz yeah! Bring out the big guns!

I slept 4-5 hours collectively since it started. About 14 of us guys got together and we locked ourselves in this pretty little class room with our computers, and we slept there and worked there and it was awesome.

Only 2 games came out enough for displaying but those 2 hold huge potential and will be sold on XBox live arcade soon. The two games for those interested are

Timmy in the Well

and

Make it Rain

I'm very proud of the work I was able to do for both these projects and the potential they both hold. You should go play Timmy in the Rain especially, the song for that one is so ridiculously epic it sits way off base with the game itself, which was part of the plan.

Too tired to keep writing, 5:30 am and no sleeps yet means I r dead tomorrow. I'll update later then.

(also votes for those projects would be so awesome ;D!!!)

If you haven't seen it yet. DO IT NOW. That movie is DEFINITELY something that has to be seen on the widescreen and in 3D.

Seriously.

One of the most amazing movies i've seen in a looooooong time. Music was pretty damn sweet too. James Horner. Never fails.

well now you can!

As part of our promotional efforts regarding the launch of NG's own freelance audio team Symphony of Specters we are currently busy creating a Producer's blog where we intend to create an inviting and fun place to geek rage about all things audio.

One of the things we will create is a step by step video demonstration towards taking any image/video and creating an underscore for it.

And this is where YOU, the artist gets involved! I need a picture to create a score for! So if you're an artist and you ever found yourself going "man I wish there was a song dedicated for this pic!" you have to speak up and show me your art!

The picture I go with will then be taken through this process with a finished song at the end dedicated to it's honor.

The artist will of course be credited and linked to in the description of the blog concerning this video as well as any other venues in which the video is put up (YouTube, even here on NG we want to make a tutorial collection of sorts)

Some things note.
- No abstract art. There's no way to even remotely give any credible tips for scoring to those.
- No crappy MS Paint pics, the more inspiring your picture the better the song will turn out and in turn the better the video will be.
- No "standing there" pics. All pictures should have an action or situation associated with them. Like, this man is dying, or, this thing is about to violently explode, or even this spaceship is flying through space. Character stills of them standing there looking at me does not inspire a good and relevant score.

Thanks for reading, and a big thanks if you decide to throw your hat in the ring!

It's only been 2 months, but really it felt like an eternity! I'm FINALLY BACK. And hopefully this time for good. I've quit the job, and now i'm returning home. Time to take things back on my terms and let no one else dictate otherwise!

Which brings me to my next point!

Symphony of Specters has launched today! It's a freelance business where a small team (all NG members) and I go off to conquer the 6 servers of the internet. We've gotten some pretty cool jobs and I have high hopes that this will in turn provide all of us a means of doing what we love on our own terms.

As promised, all my songs are back up, and new songs will be uploaded as time permits! I look forward to sharing with everybody once again!

As by request, the other NG members of the team are as follows.

DarKsidE555
pgegen
SinJim
Rig
RenoakRhythm

Our web master has an NG profile but I forget it now, I think he only made an account to insult my mother via pm. I'm certain he uploaded his own music. It's on the tip of my tongue it's killing me i'll update this when I remember or get the info from him.

A day I thought would come much much later.

Soon Newgrounds, very soon.

Strangely non of them are spartan related. But all are hilarious.

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He's a pretty awesome guy, sadly we were unable to destroy the free world as I was hoping to accomplish in the 4 hours he was in Toronto.

Next time.

Locating all my links here for ease of reference and so I don't have to maintain a thousand pages in the long run.

Epic War 2 Soundtrack
Epic War 3 Soundtrack
5 minute orchestral/techno fusion
Lots of war/heroic songs