New Matters for TheTestTube

[thecreeper]

Donnie and I have been talking about this for awhile, and we've both agreed it's time for a bit of a change. Starting soon, we hope to have 2 new large additions to TTT.

1. TTT Original Music Competition - This idea has been brewing for months, but it looks to finally be a reality. This will be hosted here, and the rules are that anyone can enter, but the song must be more than 2 minutes long and some element of the song must be performed live on an instrument. More details will be coming soon, as soon as the website for it is ready and a final few rules are ironed out. The competition will be announced formally soon, and the songs will be due in approximately 6-8 weeks, shooting for an early november release. there will be a judging as well, but those details again will be revealed with the website.

2. TTT Presents VGLIVE - VGLIVE is a project that Donnie has agreed to host here at thetesttube that is the realization of a site called rock-out.net, a site that was designed to be dedicated to artists that covered video game music with real instruments (instead of just tracking them, for example). when rock-out fell apart last year and the domain was lost (it's now a porn site), a large directory of artists was lost. TheTestTube will now have that directory here, and while new threads need to be approved in that forum, anyone can post replies about artists. each new thread will be dedicated to a particular artist, and there will be a main page directory classifying the artists and what they happen to play.

i will have more information soon, but I thought it was about time to let everyone know what's going on. With any luck, we will be seeing new faces and hopefully a new direction for TTT.

EDIT: The Music Competition site is nearly ready. http://music.thetesttube.com
EDIT2: VGLive 1.0 is a bit rough, but up nonetheless. http://vglive.thetesttube.com/

[GT2000]

Yup, I liked the idea of the vglive shit when creepuh first mentioned it...of course, I'll have to keep my eye on bandwidth eventually (that's what killed rock-out ain't it?), but we'll see what happens.

[GT2000]

While creeper is working on that stuff...in the spare time I can manage, I'll be doing a few other things, mainly forum design since that's always been my forte' (stfu!), just added a few forums a few minutes ago...want to add a few mods (some people need not apply), and I'm also looking at a few other hacks that I might add.

Also, currently trying to find someone (think I found them already but they lack time atm), who can implement a timed forum...
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Insomniacs Forum, OUT!

[Jesse]

It'd be sweet to have that forum back.

[thecreeper]

edited first post, new music site is about ready.

[raublekick]

zach, now that i don't have a job in el web programming anymore, i'd like to help out with el vglive if there's an opening.uh... after i work on good-evil that is
<_<

>_>

[Mr Biglesworth]

time to dust off the ol' beatbox stylie

[johnny]

oh come on, thetesttube has been half-dead for so long that you're just not allowed to try to make it better anymore!

[thecreeper]

zach, now that i don't have a job in el web programming anymore, i'd like to help out with el vglive if there's an opening.uh... after i work on good-evil that is
<_<

>_>
show us what you got, bitch. it's gonna be a lot of work.

[Jesse]

What exactly is vglive?

[thecreeper]

it's hard to explain exactly, but it will be a resource for artists who perform music based on video game music. there was a previous version of this out on the internet that was very popular, but died when rock-out.net died. this aims to be more comprehensive. each artist will get a thread and users can discuss whatever they want about it. a rules thread is coming soon.

[Jesse]

Ahh.
Neat.

[thecreeper]

updated the first post again, the VGLive site now has some content.