MIRAK'S PROFILE

Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
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Hello! Thank you for stopping by!

Send me a dm for pixel art, music, video editing or whatever commission info!


I do great pixel art, web design, video editing, music composing and any graphic design task you need help with.

Detective Waka
A community game about RMN members in their first Miristic Theathrical Appearance!

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So, you've got your game document all ready and set up, you've chosen your favorite engine to make your dream game, you have the story planned out, the graphics mostly drawn, BUT! You're lacking AUDIO! And you don't know squat about composing your own music! And you have a bunch of spare change in your pocket that's pulling your pants down! Oh no!

Well, I'm here to help! Get your game that sting of originality that really digs into people's hearts and souls creating an experience that will stay in their minds forever by purchasing an original soundtrack for it made by me!

Now, and for a limited time of probably twenty years, I offer my services with an exclusive price for rpgmaker.net! You won't see these prices anywhere else folks, so it's time to consider this sweet deal!

Please see my services and examples below. Prices are in USD and I charge via Paypal. I also accept payment in the form of Steam Games and Software (info on the second post), or any digital goods you want to suggest that get my interest. The prices below are specifics for developers creating non commercial games. Please email me to discuss pricing for your commercial venture.



Standard tracks are the most economic
option i offer, they include the standard array
of instruments found in your average MIDI
synthesizer and can cover all musical genres.
Chiptune music, commonly known as 8-Bit Music,
is music that mimics the style of old chiptune trackers,
this music is perfect for pixelly, retro games and media!
Base Price: $10 per MinuteBase Price: $13 per Minute
Standard Track Samples
Chiptune Samples
Mixed media combines synths and electronic elements
with standard instruments to achieve a variety of sounds
and harmonious compositions.
Orchestral music, as the name implies,
is music that occupies a variety of real instruments
that create the most epic and beautiful of sounds.
It's use is predominant in epic RPG's and games with
serious undertones.
Base Price: $17 per MinuteBase Price: $25 per Minute
Mixed Media Samples
Orchestral Samples

If the samples are not enough and you want to listen to complete tracks, please visit my SoundCloud for Mixed Media and Orchestral compositions, and my DeviantArt Music Folder for everything else.

CONTACT

Contact me by e-mailing me to patt.ytto@hotmail.com or sending me a private message here, deviantart or twitter, though I check my emails more often. Tell me about your project and what you need and we'll do business! Don't be shy if you're wondering what something would cost, contact me and I'll give you a price estimate based on your needs!

Hope to do business with you!

* = Total price includes paypal tax, calculated using The Fee Calculator.

Have you ever made a trailer for your game? If so, please help.

I'm looking for suggestions for a good video editor that i can use for making trailers and promotional videos for my stuff. I've been out of the video editing loop for about twelve years and no longer know what's the best option to use. I don't even remember the name of the software i used to use to edit videos before but i remember it was very obscure and free and really not very good.

This time i'm willing to spend money for good software, so please suggest something.

Something that is not After Effects if possible. I would very much like to use After Effects but my computer cannot run it (i've tried), so any other video editing software would be nice.

Someone recommended me Sony Vegas but the person who recommended me it has never used it before, so i can't take that recommendation seriously, i need people who are actively using their software to tell me the ups and downs and why they recommend it, because i don't want to spend money on the wrong editor and regret it forever afterwards.

Things that i'm looking for is the ability to put text and images on videos, possibly with effects, the thing i'm trying to do is use video capture software to get some videos of a game, then use flash to make an animation of the logo of the game next to some sprites doing stuff, pass the flash through Swivel to export the flash file to a high quality/resolution mp4 and then use the video editing software to make the actual video, joining both things or making transitions between them on the go, adding music and sound effects and things of the sort.

Thanks in advance.

"Mark all as read" button

My issue is that whenever i'm on one device browsing the forum, and then switch to another device (be it another computer or my smartphone), all the forums appear with the "new" icon next to them even if they don't have any new posts that i hadn't read before.

So for example i browse all forums with my smartphone until visiting the index displays no "new" posts, and then when i open rmn using another device, suddenly all of the forums claim there's new messages in them when that is clearly not true.

This bugs me because i really keep up to date with all the forum happenings and i often keep missing real new posts because i no longer know which forums really do have new posts in them. I know a ghetto solution is to use the "latest posts" thing in the community portal but that thing displays not only posts in the forum but posts site-wide and i don't really care about posts made on gamepages or screenshots that are not from my own games or games i explicitly follow.

It still would be really useful to know if we already have a button that marks everything as read so that when i switch from one device to the other one i can clear out the notifications so that when new posts really do come in i can know where they are instead of having to navigate each of them.

Peace!

Dropbox to eliminate the Public folder on March 15th

This is not news for most people, since dropbox has been methodically emailing threats to everybody about their decision to "upgrade and better their services" by deactivating the public folder for both free and pro users of their system.

What this means: No more direct file hotlinking.

Now you'll be able to make "shared links" for individual files from any folder of your dropbox, but anybody who wants to see that file will have to go through an intermediary page that offers you to download the file instead of you being able to have access to that file directly. This "upgrade" is, of course, only helping dropbox get more ad revenue from making you go to another page to see or download the file. As for the users, they can get fucked.

What THAT means: If you're like me, who used the dropbox public folder as a way of linking to image files that would appear in tutorials and game profiles and resource pages here on RMN and everywhere else on the net, you'll find that all of those links will be broken as of March 15 for free users, and September for pro users.

If i hadn't checked my old email that i used to register to dropbox i wouldn't have known about this until now, so i'm making this thread in case one of you use dropbox for the same reasons i do and didn't know about this, so that you have time to replace all the links you're using on pages on RMN with alternative ones.

In my case, i'm uploading all RMN-dependent files to my locker and hotlinking them from there. This may be obvious for some but i didn't really do it since i wanted to keep that precious locker space free for other things.

I don't know if there are any other services like dropbox that allow direct file hotlinking, so maybe i'm hoping people here will inform me of these alternative cloud services so i can migrate there.

So i finished Dead Island and i have a question (spoilers)

That question being

What the FUCK was the point of Jin's character?
What was her purpose??? So you play this zombie game and there's lots of misery and human horribleness going around right? Then you find this girl whose dear father has just been bitten, so you tearfully pry her away from he father so he wouldn't hurt her once he became a zombie. The game makes a point that Jin is a special character, she has her own model and stuff, and serves as the storage box of this game.

But storywise, the rest of the game all that happens to her is horrible! She get's brutally gangraped, then is left in a high security prison amongst tenths of dangerous and sexually frustrated prisoners all by herself for many hours, then in the end she gets unceremoniously killed in a 5 second scene? What was the bloody point?

To be honest lots of things about the story in this game seem ridiculous and dumb, and i think this even though i played with the special character after beating the game.

WHAT?

Professional Pixel Artists for hire, only at LePixelists!



CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR GALLERY OF EXAMPLES!

• We do not do isometric pixel art at the moment.
• Upfront payment is required for every project, this is not negotiable.

We are Team LePixelists!

Why hello there! We are a group of professional freelance pixel artists for hire.
We love freeware computer games. We love them a lot. A LOT. We like to play them at morning, noon or nightfall, at weekends and at school and at our jobs, and it pains us when a developer has an excellent, addictive game project, but has no money to afford a pro to make awesome art for it, that lowers it's bright and doesn't let it shine as brighter as it could with the proper help.

Our main objective is to help indie game developers with small budgets to get good art for use on their games, this way we'll see AWESOME freeware games on the net, which we can play and enjoy! This of course, doesn't mean you cannot hire us for your commercial project. The prices below apply to indie developers making freeware games ONLY, if you desire to hire us for a commercial project, please send an email to lepixelists@hotmail.com, talk to us about your project, we'll discuss things with you ASAP.

♠♣♥ PRICES! ♥♣♠
The following prices apply to small sprites and are negotiable. Another thing you could do is just send us an email listing everything you need, we’d tell you the price so you don’t have to count it here.

What do we consider a small and a big sprite? Here's a quick visual reference.
Small Sprites

Big Sprites

Gigantic Sprites

Please email us if your order involves these sprites.


◄ Character sprites ►

• RPG Overhead "eagle eye" View Style Character Spritesheets (consist on a four frame front, left and right walking animations, in total they're 13 different sprites)

♦ Four frame walking animation (left leg, stand, right leg, stand)= $20
♦ Eight frame walking animation (left leg lower, left leg higher, left leg lower, stand, right leg lower, right leg higher, right leg lower, stand)= $30


• Platformer Side Scroller View Style Character Spritesheet (this only includes a standing pose, a walking animation and a jumping sprite.)

♦ Two frame walking animation (left leg, right leg) = $10
♦ Four frame walking animation (left leg, stand, right leg, stand)= $15
♦ Eight frame walking animation (left leg lower, left leg higher, left leg lower, stand, right leg lower, right leg higher, right leg lower, stand)= $30


• Character spritesheets, Extra poses (raising hands, blinks, emotions, dead poses, etc.) = $5 each.
• Character spritesheets, Animated Effects (Effects like dissolve, fade, teleport, explode, melt, etc.) = $10 each 4 frame effect, for a higher frame rate price, please email us.


◄ Objects ►

• Animated (glowing lamps, glimmering crystals, ringing phone, gameboys) = $7*
• Static (a table, a bed, hearts for health, power ups, etc.) = $5

*Depends on the amount of frames of animation, base price is for 4 frames.

◄ Tilesets ►
Tileset work depends on the size of the tile and color count, the sizes below are measured in pixels and are by default of 32 colors or less, for any size you don’t see below, please email us.

• Floor/Wall tilesets (static):

♦ 16 x 16 tile = $1 each tile. (A platformer game floor of 9 tiles would cost $9)
♦ 32 x 32 tile = $3 each tile. (A platformer game floor of 9 tiles would cost $27)
♦ 64 x 64 tile = $5 each tile. (A platformer game floor of 9 tiles would cost $45)


If you have any doubts about assembling your order, do not hesitate to drop us an email and we'll be happy to guide you through the process.

We only accept Paypal as payment method.
If you wish to make an order or would like to ask a question, please contact us at lepixelists@hotmail.com and we'll get back to you as soon as we can! Our workspeed is great and convenient, short deadlines are not a problem for us! We encourage you to read our Terms of Service.

Looking forward to work with you!

Regards,
Team LePixelists

Low end PC optimization help

Since this isn't related to game making i put it here, please move if necessary.

So I finally got a job as a lead graphic designer in a brand new stablishment.
The problem is that they did not provide me with a machine for working, they asked me to bring one myself. I don't have a proper machine, my main rig is a desktop comp that i keep at home, my portable device is an emachines netbook that has windows XP SP3.

They still asked me to bring it. So i did. Now, i'm suffering because this laptop is obviously not prepared for this kind of work. It has 30gb of space and 1gb of ram. I need to keep open an internet browser so i can fetch information and download images and fonts as needed, and to keep open photoshop and fireworks as well. This, of course, makes everything lag because i only have 1gb of ram available. Considering this is a heavy job where i need to put out a design every 20 minutes, i CAN'T WORK!

I tried reducing memory costs the way i could. I freed the most space i could and uninstalled everything that didn't seem useful. But when i open task manager i see lots and lots of processes with stupid names like unsecapp.sj windashss and other names that don't let me know what the fuck they're supposed to be and if i can close them.

So i'm in desperate need of assistance.

If any of you know any programs that close down all unnecesary processes, AND also if you know the best lightweight internet browser (firefox is consuming 1/3 of my RAM and chrome no longer supports XP, i need a fast, low-memory browser that has tabs and loads images), or ANYTHING you can suggest to reduce memory costs, PLEASE tell me, i need to quicken this PC as soon as possible.

Thanks!

Your favorite music from the 30's, 40's, 50's

As i was writing a summary of a game i want to make i found myself in need of background noise and i remembered my love for old music.

Post a youtube track of some of your favorite musical records from back when things were not total shit like today's music is. Reasons for posting said compositions are encouraged but entirely optional.

I'll begin with Guilty, by Al Bowlly


I like this song because it doesn't use many instruments.
The lyrics were considered explicit by the 30's standards, even though they may sound pretty mild now.

I specially love male singers that really do tonalize their voices to accomodate a song instead of musing or reciting more than they actually sing.

Mirak's Assorted Objects D'art

Hello! Today i am going to show you people's some of the stuff i make.
Since i'm not going to make a thread for every kind of art i make, this thread will serve as the general dumpster for all of them.

FIRST, a composition i made today.

Piano Pieces No. 1
It is a 1-minute loop. I intend to use this in a project i'll embark myself someday.
Sometimes i like to make piano songs instead of full orchestral sounds.
For previous compositions filled with assorted instruments please visit my soundcloud. (https://soundcloud.com/karimn-d-k-i)

NEXT, some custom Ace sprites i made.





I'll be posting here everytime i have soemthing to show.

Good morning, afternoon and evening!

Hello. I've lurked this forum sometimes but i decided to make an account today, to see where things took me. Aplogies for any grammatical errors, english isn't my first language.

I'm a pixel artist, musician and vector artist. Many years ago i made some games with rpgmaker2003 and gamemaker. Been trying to get into it again although i am no programmer and even engines with premade actions and the like are exhausting to me, moreso when i can't get the darn things to work like i want them to.

So i prefer helping programmers and devs by making music and graphic assets for their games. I hope i can find some projects i can jump into in this place.

Music wise i mostly do pretty decent orchestral and instrumental soundtracks, average chiptunes and 8-bit tracks, and mediocre electronic music.

Pixel art wise i do platformer and rpg sprites, tilework, textures and stationary objects. I can't do isometric pixel art though, it's too hard.

I haven't done much vector art for game design, i'd like to but i haven't found a project where they require it, most people want pixel art for their stuff.

If you'd like to take a gander check my deviantart gallery linked in my profile's website section, i keep everything there. I don't have a soundcloud haha.

Nice to meet all of you.
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