Contest Remix Contest XI

We are the will of the D.

 

someone should start a cult...
(not actually pls dont arrest me FBI I have sixty-three brothers and sisters to take care of)

 

I should change my name to D-raffe

 

I could be Dachypacso

 

how the f.uck did i place lower than jonas griska

 

also for round two im not working on the detail im making the ride awesome sauce

 

ooooooff still liked the ride loge_0

 

ill get a lot of work done next week cuz school is out

 

also its funny l beat a featured track hehehehehe

 

sorry being cocky

 

also l was born a D cuz my middle name is Dovydas

 

*update* my track in now 121.2 kb and 2 min long, average time will prob be 4 min

 

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/935759-pleasant-ride-3

 

my warm up https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/935734-rcxi-r2-practice-i-guess

 

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/936094-another-place-in-space can some one delete this please

 

Me waiting for feedback being like

 

^this. dont have hard feelings about the ratings, really am wanting to know what you think compared to what you scored weem pssst

 

It's hard to criticize a track that I had as a narrow 2nd. As a veteran, the soldiers in the track made it very endearing to me and the detail felt very alive. I was contemplating tying this for first, but it came down to me simply liking dante's track more.

Despite being last in my rankings, I actually enjoyed the scribbles. It's reminiscent of me when I go in the editor. It shows the frustration of trackmaking. But on the other hand, I ultimately placed it last with a score of 20 (i didnt go below 20 in my rankings) because I felt not enough was added within the confines of the original track. From there, it lacked fluidity and felt like an unfinished idea. I'm open to an expansion of the track, but the additions weren't compelling enough to make up for what was taken away.

 

it seems my point didn't get across exactly. well actually a good portion of it did, but the resonance it had with me didn't. that's okay. been typing up something for an endy thought to respond more in depth to what you're saying here, likely will release that some time soon, along with an updated version of the track. someone else is working their magic on it currently, i won't say more than that. it'll continue being fleshed out.

up until about an hour before deadline i was actually going to keep more of the original stuff! the detail is great, didn't feel a point in spending my days overwriting what already had some fantastic setpieces. mostly, i wanted to get rid of the hard line the box was creating to let things breathe when zoomed out, and take the more oriental theming out since i hadn't followed through with that. the thought behind keeping most of the track was to invert the feeling you have when playing the original while keeping as much as possible along the way, much like dreamscapes feel in the moment of them. containing it to the box felt more and more limiting as time went on, so i made some extra boxes that inevitably spilled all over the place. oopsies! originally put more manga styled things around too, ended up cutting em. didn't feel like they fit stylistically, and not in a good way either. might've tied things together a bit more in hindsight, oh well.

next round is not having the same nebulousness coming together, though i suspect there'll be some questions raised about that one as well i'm not afraid of criticism, discourse provides better ways of describing the truth than i ever could conjure up. but i'm definitely not in this contest to make the same kind of stuff i used to when entering. rc 4 was about showing my appreciation for other's art, specifically in video games. at the time i had a good amount of arguments with my family on what video games were and what they weren't, and wanted to show them how cool those atmospheres were while giving them something of my own to look at. didn't really seem to work! only had it called "the bike game" rather derogatorily and a whole bunch of "why are you still doing this?" kind of questionings. rc 5 became about me looking for a style that was my own, but everyone knows how that contest ended up going lol. i'd made other remixes for other contests and never finished any of them, there wasn't any reason to finish so they weren't finished. but now...

now i'm here because i like it here, i like the community. the people here are some of the most inspiring people i've gotten the digital pleasure to meet, you and weem included in that. the dedication you two have had to come back again and again to a dead little bike game leads me to believe there's more meaning than just making tracks and completing them. i want people to understand how they feel towards their art, and i do consider some tracks here genuine art, shouldn't be the only way they'll feel towards their creations, but the way the feel because they haven't found the _____. any word you find fits best should go there until you find a better word to replace it

best of luck to all the other contestants, i don't want any half measures out there. its cooler to see a rocket blow up on the way to space than it is to see a dude on a ladder with his hands stretched up pretending he's all big and strong, but that's just me!

 

idk I think big and strong dudes are pretty cool