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Questions! Sticky

A topic by Lone Rabbit created Jan 16, 2023 Views: 302 Replies: 13
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Host

Feel free to ask questions about the jam here!

Can we compose original songs instead of medleys, tributes, and covers?

Host

Hi! That’s actually for our main event, OST Composing Jam. You can check out the previous one here: https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-5

This jam is kind of like a spinoff for medleys, tributes, and covers, so no you cannot compose original songs for this jam sorry! If you’d like to be notified for future OST Composing Jams you can join our Discord server or subscribe to our Newsletter!

No problem! Thanks for the info!

Can we compose a remix that came from a music album?

Submitted

It has to be from a soundtrack, so if you mean an actual music album, probably not (I'd imagine some of the licensing stuff would get more complicated if we could do that but idk). I also assume that, like in the pastime jams, covers have to be of songs that were officially released (someone else can correct me if I'm wrong), but other than that, your choices are pretty flexible! Hope that helps :)

Got it. thanks!!

Submitted

Which type of submission would a cover of a song from one game in the style of music from another game fall under? Would that be considered a remix or a mashup?

Host

I would consider that as a remix/cover as it doesn't incorporate melodies/extract from the other game, but ultimately it's also your choice.

Hope this helps! ^^

Submitted

Okay, thank you!

Submitted

Are the results for the jam going to be made public? I know for the Pastime ones they weren't, but the jam page mentions that this one was going to be ranked - not sure if I might have misinterpreted what that meant!

Submitted

I don’t think the results are public, I think the ranking thing was just meant to refer to which songs will be on the compilation album. I’m still new but in the last jam (where the results/ratings were public), the rankings showed up on the same day the jam ended, which didn’t happen here, so I’m assuming the rankings don’t apply to anything else in this jam. Hope this helps :)

Submitted

Ah, I just checked in the Discord (which I probably should have done first, whoops!) and there's a message from the organizer there saying there will be public rankings, just not immediately as there are more checks to do than usual :)

Submitted

Ah ok! Good to know :)