Wiki, Discord, Sim Selections, unfinished music.
Sometimes the Discord integration isn't that smooth or obvious, nor is the route from Patron to game server info and whatnot. Most of this is due to Patreon's design (which would probably be overcomplicated if it allowed me to customize things this much, to be fair).
I was thinking of just setting up a simple wiki page with this info on it, and anyone can have access. Yay?
Sim Selections is an awesome tradition some Discord members are starting, and it's a great way to learn and sharpen your writing skills. This month the Orica competition would have made it confusing to be addressing all of the songs at the same time, but if you're a musician and not involved, you should be!
Finally, I have loads of unfinished music and I was thinking of either having that being part of Sim Selections, or just posting it in bundles as I organize it. Basically remix-packs of sorts. Obviously anyone would be able to use these assets for anything they like and can credit me if they want, but I think I may not even care about attribution unless y'all thought it would be an interesting bookmark. Think...like...treating music like open source software and branching out different versions? Attribution would just be an organizational reference.
Let me know your thoughts!
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This is the first post that comes up if you search for "discord" in here, so leaving another comment here: the "Join server" link under https://www.patreon.com/bennjordan/membership doesn't work - I tried everything reasonable and I'm starting to suspect the problem isn't on my side...
I also cannot seem to join from the membership details discord link.
Did anyone find the discord link?
Same. I haven’t received an invite to the discord server. How do I join??
Please help, I can't find the discord server
Benn I cannot find a link to the discord. HALP
Treating music like open source software and branching out different versions? Isn't that how music and art already is, and always have been? Historically, humans haven't really bothered with attribution but there wasn't really any reasons to until capitalism came and try to block that natural flow.
I like it. I only make one kind of song, so if you want to hear your track turned into a downtempo dub groove, you know what to do!
Me and my band are quite busy prepping for a festival, but I can't wait to enter these awesome creative endeavors with you guys!! I've been wanting to for a while. Thanks for all you are doing, its great stuff!
My favourite type of contest (for want of a better word, I know SS isn't a contest) is where everyone gets a sample pack and has to make a track using it, I love hearing how different all the results are when starting from the same source, so I love the idea of using these unfinished tracks in that way. Even better is the open source nature of it allowing people to use and share and publish the work they've done with it, which is often missing in these sort of events run elsewhere.
I'm going to say more in the discord, but I somehow mistakenly interpretated this to mean asset bundles announced/showcased as part of Sim Selections and now I love that idea. Otherwise, asset bundles in any form would of course be amazing.
I think the remix packs would be a great idea for both Sim Selections and posted as bundles!