I am on a team making a total conversion MOD for Half Life 2 called AGCT (Anime Girl Catfight Tournament) please hear me out before dismissing this though, as I know that sounds a bit sleasy
The thought behind this fight was really that we're a team of coders, modellers etc that work for free to make something that (we hope) others will enjoy playing. Much like you guys do with your music. The way we see it, it's a perfect match
Recently we have been looking at other full conversion teams and we have felt quite overwhelemd by them and their high status. the reason is not that they have better team members than us, we are confident in our modelling, texturing, coding etc. We have been looking at them with jealous eyes because they have theme songs. and we do not.
we too wish to have a theme song in our mod. But none of us have any talent when it comes to the musical arena.
That's where you guys come in. I've been a fan of this place for a while, and recently most of my playlist consists of songfights, so I know the raw undeniable potential this place has of fulfilling our wettest dreams.
I have no idea how many contributions a sidefight like this can generate, maybe noone really thinks this sounds interesting at all, but if we can get as many as the average songfight, that'd be a great fight.
Specifics:
First of all, how will the songs be used?
Well, asuming we get any submissions, the winner's song will be used at the title screen of the game. so basically it'll be playing while you select options, start a server, before you join a game, etc.
This song and the rest will be released on the AGCT site ( http://www.agctmod.net ) as a virtual CD... This will either have the winning song as a title track, or use the in-game soft drink name "Anime Smash!" as the title (in which case the "cover" will look something like this:
)The details of the "CD's" name have yet to be decided.
What about the actual song?
Apart from the final date of the submissions, there really aren't many rules.
there are preferences, but as I mention these, keep in mind that we consider you the authorities on music and as such we trust your judgement better than ours in the making of the music.
We would like it to be high paced.
We would like it to have a Japanese feel to it. wether this is using a gong, sampling speach from seven samurai or emulating a J-Pop** song, we will leave up to yourselves.
(** J-Pop is a common abbreviation for japanese pop in the west)
Your song can be all instrumental, completely acapella or anything in between.
There is no set title for this fight.
I can only give my suggestion, which would be "Anime Smash!" (like the soft drink
) but using that as the title of your song will not sway the decission one way or the other.How will it be decided?
The AGCT team will have a vote on the tenth of may (the day after the final date for submitting songs).
What is this half life 2 mod about?
AGCT is a high paced deathmatch game, pitching wellknown Anime girls against eachother to the death. Much like the students in Battle Royale.
It will contain various game modes, but in every one of them it's mostly about getting the other guy's health down to zero before he does it to you
What is anime?
Anime is the common name for Japanese cartoons in the west. In Japan it's just cartoons.
What's with grown men watching cartoons?
It's fun
Sorry, I have no excuse
I guess 23 isn't exactly a grown man though.. I'll go with that.
I've seen that stuff.. You're making a game about cartoon girls with enormous eyes and breasts, aren't you?
I assure you, this is being handled in a most respectful way. The choice of using anime girls in this mod is intended more ironically than anything, and all the girls in our mod will be (and stay!) fully clothed at all times.
Final Info
If you have any interest of joining this fight a bit down the road, please do tell us so either in this thread, in the mirror thread on our forum, or by sending me a mail. We'd love to see what interest there is for a thing like this.
Any of these three places will also do for questions regarding anything I might have missed in here.
the last day to enter this thing is in three weeks. so May 9th.
Alright, if you've read through all that, and still feel like you would like to help us out, please submit your music to:
mac@twisted-irony.com
and Clicky here for the thread on the AGCT forum
And if trying your hand at Japanese lyrics attracts you.. more power to you. We're happy either way 
