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I find "video game" music is way too vague a category. It has like orchestral movements, racey-trance and chip tunes in it. I've never liked being told something I've written sounds like video game music.

Cala has a point. VGM is so diverse nowadays that finding anything specific there would probably be a pain in the ass.

Atleast branch it off into oldschool (Chiptunes and otherwise low bit sounding stuff) and newschool(lulz GoW ala classical, metal, technobeats) would make it a great deal mroe efficient to check through.

VG is just chiptunes and midirips anyway.

At 8/1/11 09:26 PM, SBB wrote: VG is just chiptunes and midirips anyway.

I haven't checked the VG list for a good 6 years so I wouldn't know. But I'm not surprised if that'd the case.

Chiptunes shouldn't have existed after 1996, therefore should not get their own genre on NG.

At 8/1/11 09:39 PM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Chiptunes shouldn't have existed after 1996, therefore should not get their own genre on NG.

Dubstep shouldn't existed after the first use of wobble basses within the genre, yet it got its own genre on NG.

See what I did there?

At 8/1/11 09:45 PM, B0UNC3 wrote:

At 8/1/11 09:39 PM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Chiptunes shouldn't have existed after 1996, therefore should not get their own genre on NG.

Dubstep shouldn't existed after the first use of wobble basses within the genre, yet it got its own genre on NG.

See what I did there?

This is the most true statement on NG.

ALL PRAISE BOUNC3, WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS JOKING!

At 8/1/11 09:45 PM, B0UNC3 wrote:

At 8/1/11 09:39 PM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Chiptunes shouldn't have existed after 1996, therefore should not get their own genre on NG.

Dubstep shouldn't existed after the first use of wobble basses within the genre, yet it got its own genre on NG.

See what I did there?

Still waiting for the redesign... lol

At 8/1/11 10:57 PM, Sequenced wrote:

Still waiting for the redesign... lol

its coming out next week - along with josh's ng chat.

At 8/1/11 09:45 PM, B0UNC3 wrote:

At 8/1/11 09:39 PM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Chiptunes shouldn't have existed after 1996, therefore should not get their own genre on NG.

Dubstep shouldn't existed after the first use of wobble basses within the genre, yet it got its own genre on NG.

See what I did there?

dubstep you hate

At 8/1/11 09:39 PM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Chiptunes shouldn't have existed after 1996, therefore should not get their own genre on NG.

Classical shouldn't have existed after 1830, therefore should not get it's own genre on NG.

The AP should have seperate sections for a lot of things but I feel like it could have the negative effect of creating more of these really clique-y little groups for each particular genre. Who knows!

At 8/2/11 12:43 AM, LaForge wrote: Shit, I actually got a spot in the NGADM... wasn't expecting that. Guess I'll have to write a masterpiece to beat nubbinz.

U BETTER WOW ME.

At 8/2/11 12:43 AM, LaForge wrote: Shit, I actually got a spot in the NGADM... wasn't expecting that. Guess I'll have to write a masterpiece to beat nubbinz.

or just pull a spikrodd and flyup the ranks as every single competitor systematically chickens out and you move up by default :P

Lately I've been going to the submit content page and clicking random audio entry and reviewing them. Thanks to that I've found great submissions from years ago and discovered an amazing artist by the name of audio-star.

Even though I don't make about any chiptunes at all, I agree with the notion of having a genre for itself, because I look around the VG portal, and see all possible genres on the AP.

I think they should add a chiptune genre to the portal, but has anyone brought it up to liljim or anyone?

At 8/2/11 02:18 AM, J-Rex wrote: Does my song SELFADVERTISEMENTSELFADVERTISEMENTSELFAD VERTISEMENT count as a chip tune? If so then they should have their own category. I mean if rock has sub genres then why not have a chip tune category/genre.

Fixed.

At 8/1/11 11:45 PM, midimachine wrote:

At 8/1/11 09:39 PM, LogicalDefiance wrote: Chiptunes shouldn't have existed after 1996, therefore should not get their own genre on NG.

Classical shouldn't have existed after 1830, therefore should not get it's own genre on NG.

I beg to differ....

At 8/2/11 01:40 AM, dj-Jo wrote: Lucky you :P

lol, the farthest I got in the contest was 2 rounds before the semi finals I think

Oh the good ol' days!

If it makes you feel any better, I did nominate you in my own nominations. Just sayin'

I didn't mean to self advertise even though that is. but is it chip tune?

At 8/2/11 02:46 AM, J-Rex wrote: I didn't mean to self advertise even though that is. but is it chip tune?

I don't think it's chiptune, since there's no chipping. I might be wrong though, I don't let myself into that genre much.

If it's not chip tune is it just plain old video game music?

At 8/2/11 03:42 AM, J-Rex wrote: If it's not chip tune is it just plain old video game music?

Well actually it's just a random melody created with a cliché 8-bit synth, but since that's not a genre here on NG, it would best fit under VG.

So what about a synth genre then for synth stuff. We could possibly eliminate industrial, new wave and other categories though which would take some time to re categorize those submissions that would fit better in the synth category then their original.

At 8/2/11 04:13 AM, J-Rex wrote: So what about a synth genre then for synth stuff. We could possibly eliminate industrial, new wave and other categories though which would take some time to re categorize those submissions that would fit better in the synth category then their original.

Synth stuff? I'm not following you there. Also eliminating genres will never, EVER happen (I think), because that would cause major problems with songs of that specific genre.

synth stuff isn't a genre. neither is guitar stuff.

Well I didn't really care about a synth genre. But does anyone think there will ever be specific genres such as ballads, songs for clubs, songs with real instruments, songs with programs, made for film, or any other specifics like that?

What you're talking about is meta information that is almost completely irrelevant to genres ;)

Also if your song was made with 8-bit or 16-bit hardware OR you made the song to sound like it was made with such stuff then yes it's a chiptune. I didn't listen to yours though.

At 8/2/11 04:22 AM, J-Rex wrote: Well I didn't really care about a synth genre. But does anyone think there will ever be specific genres such as ballads, songs for clubs, songs with real instruments, songs with programs, made for film, or any other specifics like that?

there will be tags.