Hello, everyone! Welcome to the first ever Newgrounds Audio Portal Bingo Contest! 1f1n1ty is excited to be hosting this new competition idea with everyone.

This is the discussion thread for the competition. Please feel free to discuss and ask questions about this event in here. When you’ve finished your submission, go to the submissions thread, read the rules one more time, and then post!

Best of luck to all participants! <3

Hey guys 1f1n1ty is here!

Sorry for the confusion, NG didn't let me make a second BBS thread in time to paste the link into the first. KaixoMusic just happened to be online so I asked him to step in.

Anyway discussion!

Very tempted to enter, although I'll likely try something in the later half of them month since I'll have the vast majority of my time booked off of work then. Got a few bingo card combo's I'm happy to do.

Looks super interesting, I love the concept! :) I've got a bit too much going on at the moment to be able to participate, but to those that enter, good luck and have fun.

It has been a while since I have done something like this, but I should be able to participate! I accept the challenge!!

Very much looking forward to hearing the entries!

Also, glad to see that "cello" is a bingo spot. Caesura was also a clever one.

Looks really neat! I'm gonna enter into this and I wish early good luck to all the other participants. Hopefully my secret recipient of my secret CHIPS santa gift won't mind if the thing I give them is a little under par... :p

One question, though: do diagonals count as lines we can do?

At 12/1/18 03:42 PM, SplatterDash wrote: One question, though: do diagonals count as lines we can do?

Yes! You'll see on the bingo board there are labels on the sides:

R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
D1
D2

These are the twelve options you have :)

Here's the bingo board for reference! Sry it should have gone on the first post but better late than never!

At 12/1/18 03:43 PM, 1f1n1ty wrote:

At 12/1/18 03:42 PM, SplatterDash wrote: One question, though: do diagonals count as lines we can do?

Yes! You'll see on the bingo board there are labels on the sides:

These are the twelve options you have :)

Oh ok, didn't see the labels there the first time I saw the board lol. Thanks :D

very excited to be involved with this, good luck to all of the contestants! :^)

If I can finish a track in time I'll have to include a few random bingo squares. I just can't ignore that non 4/4.

Good job on organizing the contest based on my tips, though I feel a few or so rules are unneccesary because NG rules cover them, and it would save you time to say "original song" near the beginning rather than the rule saying "It must be a song not a voice track", sort of pointless. Then again, it took me years before AIM became what it is now.

So, for a start, this is pretty good. :) A bit wordy, but so was AIM in earlier years, still sort of is. Glad to see you could get good people on board for this. I wish you well, and though I don't have time to enter, I'm interested to see how this turns out.

At 12/1/18 06:45 PM, RealFaction wrote: Good job on organizing the contest based on my tips, though I feel a few or so rules are unneccesary because NG rules cover them, and it would save you time to say "original song" near the beginning rather than the rule saying "It must be a song not a voice track", sort of pointless.

Noted for future events. Thanks for the feedback!

Good luck y'all :)

I'm posting this here cause the song's not my official submission. It's a failed attempt at checking all the items on the list in one track and more like an example of how not to make your submission. ;p I made it in less than 3 hours.

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  NGAPBC18 cancelled entry demo

  by CzySzy

  I made this for the compo but along the way I realized it sounded meh

  Song

  Experimental

  131 Views

  PLAY

Here's my board:

At 12/2/18 05:53 PM, CzySzy wrote: and more like an example of how not to make your submission.

Actually this is really nice :3 tbh when you said this I was expecting some kind of like demo-reel-type one-bingo-square-every-3-seconds kind of deal and that's not what you did

you could have had caesura at 0:48

Excited to hear what you'll come up with in a re-do!

Righto, I'm on my way with my song. I'll be done soon and able to upload it.

As a note, for mine, it'll seem weird. I ACTUALLY wrote the song in 3/4 time. BUT!!! the drum beat is a 4/4 beat for the most part. I've gone for the first column, and a song in non 4/4 was in that bingo list. Does it count as a non 4/4 song if the beat is 4/4 but the song is written in 3/4?

At 12/3/18 08:00 PM, AlphaStorm73 wrote: As a note, for mine, it'll seem weird. I ACTUALLY wrote the song in 3/4 time. BUT!!! the drum beat is a 4/4 beat for the most part. I've gone for the first column, and a song in non 4/4 was in that bingo list. Does it count as a non 4/4 song if the beat is 4/4 but the song is written in 3/4?

I'll probably have to listen to it myself and see. Are you sure it's not just 6/8? Either way you'll get credit for completing the non-4/4 square if there's evidence that you tried, even if it doesn't feel like non-4/4.

just so its clear is the rule for the contest that we have to choose at least one bingo line to follow for our contest entry?

At 12/3/18 11:18 PM, RedMongoose wrote: just so its clear is the rule for the contest that we have to choose at least one bingo line to follow for our contest entry?

Yes! Your entry has to show a clear attempt at completing at least one bingo line.

At 12/3/18 11:22 PM, 1f1n1ty wrote:

At 12/3/18 11:18 PM, RedMongoose wrote: just so its clear is the rule for the contest that we have to choose at least one bingo line to follow for our contest entry?

Yes! Your entry has to show a clear attempt at completing at least one bingo line.

all right good to know tyvm

I love doing stuff like this! Although, I did think I was allowed to fill the whole board, but that would be a bit overkill.

At 12/4/18 07:36 AM, JordanKyser wrote: I did think I was allowed to fill the whole board, but that would be a bit overkill.

I disagree! go for it lol

I'm sorry, I consider myself decently well versed in music theory, but I've never heard of the term "5-voice chord", and I can't find any info online. Is this just a chords comprised of 5 tones? If someone can help me out, I'd appreciate it

i know that there aren't really a limit for the length of submission.
but uhh... can you specify what is "too short" and "too long"?

(my good guess is from 1 to 6 mins)

At 12/4/18 12:30 PM, vidu3k333 wrote: i know that there aren't really a limit for the length of submission.
but uhh... can you specify what is "too short" and "too long"?

(my good guess is from 1 to 6 mins)

I'm speaking for myself here. I think 2.5 to 7 minutes is reasonable if you want the numbers, but I wouldn't necessarily remove points based on length. It's possible for a song shorter than 2.5 minutes to sound developed and complete, and it's possible for a really long song to contain enough variation, development, and be of high enough quality to be stimulating for its entire duration.

At 12/4/18 09:35 AM, Towny wrote: I'm sorry, I consider myself decently well versed in music theory, but I've never heard of the term "5-voice chord", and I can't find any info online. Is this just a chords comprised of 5 tones? If someone can help me out, I'd appreciate it

I think it means a chord with 5 different tones, but I can't be sure either.

Also I see I decided to actually be active on here in a good moment, this is a perfect excuse to get back into music making, there are already some bingos I see I could be making :3c

At 12/4/18 09:35 AM, Towny wrote: I'm sorry, I consider myself decently well versed in music theory, but I've never heard of the term "5-voice chord", and I can't find any info online. Is this just a chords comprised of 5 tones? If someone can help me out, I'd appreciate it

Yep! That's basically what I was meaning when I wrote that square.

No need to be sorry! If anything it's my fault that it's not clearer :)