The new intense battle theme for you guys to use as a soundtrack for your aggressive in-game outbursts is out.

GO CHECK IT OUT NOW.

Not really, but I am back from my month and a half of absence from the Internet. My college finals have really proven to be an extremely time-consuming obligations, but with some sacrifice, they're finally out of the way! Meaning I can finally get my hands on some creative work. Hopefully you guys will see some of that in the soon future. Keeping my fingers crossed for inspiration to rear it's ugly head.

And yes. Inspiration's head can be friggin' ugly.

100 Fans
As of today, 100 people have added me to their favorite artists list, and DAMN, does saying that feel good!!!

All of you people out there who have supported my work by either reviews, votes, favoriting or pretty much anything else: THANK YOU. Seriously, folks, your constant appreciation of my work here on NG really means a lot to me. Thanks a lot!

Other things...
College has really been bringin' me down lately... Still have a week left, with three final exams to pass. Hopefully, I'll get rid of those obligations and finally get some time for a bit of creative work! It's pretty damn obvious I haven't been submitting a lot lately, but there are other reasons for that, too. To be more specific, I've been working (and still am) on about three projects that are due within a month from now, and I seriously couldn't find a lot more time to write anything else. Let's hope that'll change soon.

MyBrute
Also, for people who don't know about it, MyBrute is a free on-line game I've been playing lately. If any one of you has five minutes to spare, I'd seriously suggest checking it out. It's a nice little gadget that doesn't require a lot of dedication or time, so it's pretty cool.

So, if someone feels like trying it, give my character a nudge, and enjoy the brawling!

NG Beer 'n' Ale Club
Feel as though the people around you don't appreciate beer enough? Your fancy friends believe wine to be the king of all alcoholic beverages? Well, join the recently formed NG Beer 'n' Ale Club and find even MORE arguments to prove them wrong!

- enjoy discussion about different types of beer
- find some new, sexy beers to try out at your local pub
- post your favorite beers for others to drool after
- and much, much more!

My Brute
Well, I found out about this site a tad too late, but I find it pretty amusing! Kinda like a random-happening turn-based RPG, with a whole lot of variety! It's really pretty fun, and the best thing is, it doesn't require money or a lot of time!

So yeah, hit my character up and give it a try!

Username Change
Wow, to my complete amazement, within 24 hours of my request, my username was changed!!!

I simply removed the numbers from the ending of the name, but I still think it's quite a big difference. Thanks a lot, Tom!

Passed the 50!!!
Well, I must admit that probably no-one is happier than I am at the moment, due to the fact that I currently have more than 50 fans of my work in the Audio Portal! Also, my songs were favorited over 230 times, all in all!

Hey, it might not seem to be a lot to many of you out there, but I'm sure that any fellow NGAPortal artist will agree that this isn't bad at all, seeing that my first song was submitted less than a year ago. ;D

I'd like to take the chance to thank any and all of you that have added me to their favorite artist list, favorited, reviewed, and downloaded (or at least listened to XD) my songs and generally shown any sort of support for my creative work!!! Seriously, guys, it really means a lot!

New projects on the way...
Even though I have been slacking quite a lot lately, I do actually have a few projects that are (seemingly) nearing completion! They don't exactly have names yet, but the working titles are here:

1.) Boss Battle Theme WIP (around 80% done)
- in similar style to my most popular song so far, Judgement Day

2.) Schizo WIP (around 90% done)
- a sorta happy random song; started making it as a way of depicting a schizophreniac's brain on a good day, so it contains a lot of different instruments and genres

3) Cool jazz WIP (around 40% done)
- started making this one a while ago, but just decided to get to work on it lately; hopefully, it'll see the light of day soon, as I'm really eager to hear comments from some talented people out there...

4.) Happy Electro WIP (around 20% done)
- another one in the list of my genre-experiments; it's kinda fun to work on it 'cause I'm not exactly used to writing this sort of music, so we'll see how it turns out

5.) A ton of other projects stopped around 10%-ish XD

So: I hope that I'll finish at least one of these in the soon future, seeing that getting feedback on my work is basically what drives me to create more!

I want to take you to it.

It really is, isn't it?

Well, the dead-line has come and gone, and most of the Aura sections have been completed (actually, the Fab submission is a bit belated due to some technical problems). I must say that all of the groups have really done a great job on their stuff, especially seeing that a whole bunch of artists from each group had to fit in the group's two minute limit, which is quite a stressful thing to work with. This resulted with five sections (well, four, for now), each around two minutes long. You can check out the submissions following these links (in order of completion):

Neutral part: Teh Neutral Collab (caps!!!)
Dark part: Aura of Darkness
Evil part: Evil collab Final mix
Light part: Light Aura FULL MIX
Fab part: Pending...

You'll see that truly, every group had their own view on how this thing should be done, which resulted with five (four) excellent, and completely unique sections.

As for the progress of the collab in general: currently, we're all waiting on the final piece to be submitted so we can get some able-bodied flashers to work on their ideas of how the whole thing could be animated. Of course, first we'll have to mix everything together, but more about that later.

To check out (or even join in) the general discussion, check out the Main Aura Collab Discussion thread. All comments are welcome, as we need a whole lot of ideas to make this as kickass as possible!

OK people, here are the rules of the Aura Collab for the time being:

EACH AND EVERY OF THE INDIVIDUAL AURA GROUP HAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT (00:00, NG TIME) NEXT SATURDAY (THE 18th) TO DO A VOTING FOR THEIR THREAD LEADER. THE LEADER IS THEN TO DECIDE WHICH PEOPLE ARE IN THE COLLAB, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THAT NO GROUP CAN MAKE OVER 2 MINUTES (120 SECONDS, FOR THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY SUCK AT MATH) OF MUSIC. THAT WAY, THE ORDER AND TIME GIVEN TO EVERY PARTICIPANT IS TO BE DECIDED SEPARATELY WITHIN EVERY GROUP.

Should the thread leaders decide that a participant has at any point stopped contributing, made a section that definitely doesn't fit with his Aura group, or in any other way halts the progress of the collab, they are free to notify me to remove him from the list of collab participants which will be put up in this news post as soon as it's finished.

To make life easier, here are the links for the discussion threads:
Neutral Thread
Light Thread
Evil Thread
Fab Thread
Dark Thread

Any additional ideas on how to improve the rules set up so far? Feel free to comment. That's what the nice little button is for.