• Collaboration is encouraged.
  
• There is no limit on the number of submissions.
  
• The winning tracks are picked by the community through rounds of polls.
  
• Contestants are encouraged to defend their own pieces in the forum, before and during the polls, to win the community votes.
  

• Submissions cannot be published before.
  
• To be included in the game, the piece should comply with Xonotic's GPL practice. Specifically, one must provide reasonable sources (project files, scores, etc.) so others can build upon the work.
  
• To submit a piece, reply to this thread with a link to a new thread in the Music and Sound Development forum, and title it with "[soundcon] The Name Of The Soundtrack". The first post should always have the link to the latest version of the piece, as well as a description explaining why the piece is suitable for Xonotic.
  
• The contestants are encouraged, but not required, to discussion work in progress with the community before the deadline. The discussion should happen in the same thread of the submission.
  
• Check out some technical details on this Wiki page.
  

• The community will determine whether a track is suitable for Xonotic.
  
• It may be helpful to read through some of the early discussion on what people expect. However, you are encouraged to think outside of the box!
  
• The soundtrack can be for specific maps, for general gameplay, for menus, or for titles.
  
• There's no restriction on styles. Be creative!
  
• Common etiquette applies.
  

(05-29-2015, 01:26 AM)BuddyFriendGuy Wrote: Thank you so much, @Totally_Cool. The sound/music forum has been quiet for a while and I was worried that no one is even interested any more.

If we go with the popular vote to decide soundtracks for maps, as opposed to having a small committee, then everyone, including the organizers, can submit their works.

The map contest is May 1 to Aug 1, so I imagine the winner will be out in August. Does that align with your free time window? Or are you making generic soundtracks, as opposed to score to specific maps?

(05-24-2015, 12:01 AM)BuddyFriendGuy Wrote: The poll result supports the idea, so I think we should go ahead and make this happen, @Totally_Cool.

These are some rough ideas, up for discussion:

Participants and Judges

• It's more fun to have more candidates, so I think we should allow multiple submissions from the same participants.
  
• The forum community will pick the winners by voting.
  
• The winners' tracks will be given to the core team for the next step (release, ask for technical modification, etc.).
  

Submission

• Submissions cannot be published before.
  
• Submissions should comply with Xonotic's GPL practice. However, while it's an ideal way to fulfill the GPL spirit, I'm prone to relaxing it a little bit. For example, if @Halogene wants to improvise, we'll accept just the recording, instead of requiring a transcription.
  
• Each soundtrack should have its own thread, with the prefix [soundcon], for community discussion.
  
• The participants can choose whether or not to discussion work in progress with the community, before the deadline.
  
• Since this contest is to go with the winning maps, please specify which map the piece is written for. (However, considering the number of the maps we are likely to get, perhaps we should relax this rule and allow a generic submission.)
  

Styles

• There are some guidelines/suggestions somewhere in the forum (can somebody help dig them out), but I think we should just be very open and allow out-of-box thinkers to surprise us.
  

Prizes

• Shall we ask for donations?
  
• Perhaps a pair of high-end headphones?
  
• SoundCloud or some music membership sponsorship?
  
• A frame to put the CD in to hang on the wall?
  

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The following is the original post, as a record:

(05-24-2015, 12:01 AM)BuddyFriendGuy Wrote: I was suggesting that we run a soundtrack competition along with the map one. The idea is to score for the winning map(s), and more importantly, the winner track will get released officially. There have been a lot of submissions in the past, but there was no process to make anything official so the momentum kind of died out.

There are several issues that I'm too new to know how it's been done, such as:

• Do mappers, or devs, or the community, usually have the final say about which soundtrack to pick?
  
• Should this competition judged by popular vote, or a smaller table of judges?
  
• Is it guaranteed that the winning track will be included?
  
• etc.
  

Can unfa or somebody more experienced here help get this competition going?

(06-17-2015, 07:27 AM)Mirio Wrote: I don't know how the core team is able to make it "official" or how would it help?
Cpuld you elaborate what you expect from them?

(06-18-2015, 03:02 AM)Mirio Wrote:

BuddyFriendGuy Wrote:I think some voices from the core team to ensure that this competition is supported by the core team will encourage people to participate.

Ok I posted here Point 1 solved.
Anyway, we like to see contests, tournaments, etc. for a good cause and those have full support per se.

(06-18-2015, 03:02 AM)Mirio Wrote: I guess it would make sense to merge this thread into the competition thread, so there are not X threads about it floating around?

• Sound track competition for the map competition
  
• this current looking-for-support one
  
• the poll
  

(06-18-2015, 03:02 AM)Mirio Wrote: I moved the thread. You should finalise the rule set from Post #6 and edit them into the opening post. (might as well copy+paste rules from the mapping contest as they are similar)
Actually once you have done that, I could make a post at Xonotic Facebooks page about it.

(06-18-2015, 03:02 AM)Mirio Wrote: it's a pain to go through and find all the files (sometimes you don't know if it's supposed to be for Xonotic etc.). I did that once, never again.

(06-21-2015, 01:58 PM)Archer Wrote: Cool, I'll try to make something soon

• aa
  
• Totally_Cool
  
• Cobra_Fast
  
• Archer
  
• BuddyFriendGuy + Halogene