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[Guillak]

This is a simple game: get your musical portrait drawn by MD population. How do others see your character?

~ Rules ~

• By entering the game, you gain access to the list of all other participants.
  
• You assign a single tune (YouTube link only) to all participants you know, including yourself. Choose the song that you think best portrays the participant. Anything is allowed: don't hesitate to put up songs in other languages than English, purely instrumental pieces are even strongly encouraged; the music itself is more important than the lyrics in my opinion (although they are supposed to be related). Avoid putting the music that participants are using in their papers ...
  
• Wait for others to do the same ...
  
• ... and enjoy your "musical portrait" by listening to the songs that have been chosen for you. All songs are anonymous, so you don't know who chose what for you!

That's it.

Rewards:

• You get to know how people view you, in music!
  
• To be happy, surprised, disappointed, etc., and hopefully to have fun.

You won't get any shiny thing, and I kindly ask any potential generous sponsor NOT to propose any reward. In this game, you just receive as much as you give.


~ What if there are participants I don't know? ~

Stalk them, find them, meet them, talk to them, (R-)play with them, learn about them! By entering the game, you should be ready to go meet all the people you don't know yet, young or old.


~ How to start ~

To enter the game, just go to Awiiya's way, check the Oak Log, and say "Musical Portrait". Everything has been made automatic in the clickie. It is just a matter of typing a short description and copy/pasting the link of the song, just like with the mood panel. Note that for storage limitations reasons, all fields are limited in length—use the "share" links of YouTube if possible.

Warning: the first time you activate the script, you are automatically added to the list of participants. This means that your name will appear in all participants' list, and the interface will invite them to assign a song to you. Don't do it unless you're really willing to participate. There is no "give up" button, but I can remove you manually from the list of participants if necessary.

Under the list of participants and songs you have chosen, you will find the list of anonymous (unless they are "signed" ... Well you can try to guess) songs that have been assigned to you, which obviously is empty the first time you activate the script. You can see your own list, but not that of the others. For each song, you can leave a short comment in return for the person who chose it for you, and it will appear next to your name in his/her list of participants.

The clickie has been well tested, but if you notice anything strange, don't hesitate to tell me!


~ I can see everything ~

I have access to all data obviously, and I can find who submitted what. But I won't spend my time monitoring everything, I don't have time for that. That said, if you find some inappropriate or badly unpleasant content, just tell me and I'll remove the content, or even the participant. If it is serious, it will be forwarded to the appropriate MD authorities.

Please keep it enjoyable, I don't want it to become another reason for bickering ...


~ Many thanks to ~

Brulant for discussing the initial idea, Burns for discussing the final idea, Chewett for answering all my questions on MDScript, Awiiya for allowing the use of his clickie, MD Council and Rendril for allowing the use of consequent data storage, and all people who helped testing the clickie (your entries are still there, btw)!


Now go and have fun! There might be a second part in a couple weeks.


Edit: YouTube links only, and I finally use multiple storages as Council and Rendril allowed me.

Edited by Guillak, 12 February 2012 - 04:54 PM.

[Maebius]

This was a lot of fun. I'll go re-add some links to all teh new folks who will most likely pop up in "The List" now.
Kudos for an awesome idea!

[Nightbane Strongarm]

next stop awiiyas way, this sounds too good to pass up

[Princess Katt]

I quite enjoy trying to guess who has posted songs for me. Great job, Guillak!

[Brulant]

Guillak, this is absolutely amazing.
It take all of the things I love about MD and wraps them up into one neat little package. I can't help but smile at and appreciate the songs people have picked for me thus far
Thank you, everybody (especially Guillak!).

[ChildOfTheSoul]

I really enjoyed finding songs for everyone. It took a little bit longer than expected, and I might go back and change some of the songs... but it was really fun. I'm glad everything worked out so that you could make this.

[Guillak]

Glad you like it!

Note that I may have to restrict the size of allowed input data if there are too many participants ...

[Maebius]

If it gets too big, I can offer an external server and give you access to mySQL for backups.
(If such is possible via mdscripts... I'm testing that myself this week for my own nefarious plotting)

[Atrumist]

How long will this last since I'm in Tribunal and probably me will have to learn to fly like bird and sing a song to the Oak tree

[Passant the Weak]

When the kid Guillak first showed me that, I thought "hey cool". Now that it is set up in public, I have changed my mind:

This is not cool ! This is hot! One of the hottest things in the realm for a while.

Guillak, I just love it.

- the idea is fantastic
- the location is great: will entertain Awiiya and make MDA crowdy
- there is more depth in the game than one could expect (for example, we can play the game "who put that song on me", we can enter into song wars agaisnt each other...

Thank you very much Kid!

Edited by Passant the Weak, 08 February 2012 - 10:30 AM.

[Guillak]

@Maebius
If it gets too big, that would be nice indeed; that was the solution recommended to me by Chewett. But for simplicity I'd like to keep everything inside MD as long as it is possible. And as you point out, I haven't seen any way to do so from MDScript ...


@Atrumist
A couple weeks, a priori, so no worry!

@All others
Thanks a lot!



On a side note, I'm still modifying the clickie a little, so strange things might happen. That said, I back up everything regularly, so don't worry [too much]. I'm using my own data for testing, so if some data is lost, it'll probably be only mine ...

[phantasm]

very awsome idea. Am loving it

[Phantom Orchid]

Guillak!

Such a wonderful gift, thank you.

PS. Whoever posted the Amber Asylum song - I *love* her. How did you know?

[Krioni]

Wow. Just..wow. This is so awesome, it is neat to listen to the songs people have already assigned me. Thank you so much for this!

Krioni

[Hedge Munos]

Can we see who picked what song for us?

Hedge

[Seigheart]

Amazing idea!


Awarded with a WP.

Edited by Seigheart, 11 February 2012 - 09:39 PM.

[Guillak]

Hedge Munos, on 11 February 2012 - 09:34 PM, said:

Can we see who picked what song for us?

Nope! That's the point. Only me can see, and I won't tell.

When it is over, I intend to make all "portraits" public if all participants agree (second part I suggested in initial post).

And eventually, if all participants agree (again), either just make the song pickers visible to you in the clickie, or make "reversed portraits" public (display all the songs you chose, not those chosen for you). We'll decide this later! For now, everything's anonymous.


@Seigheart
Hard to say no ... Thanks a lot! I wish I was alive to be able to enjoy it. X-)

[Seigheart]

Well, wake up so I can give it to you...

[Guillak]

I've made some modifications to the underlying storage strategy.

=> Two good news:

• the length of data you can input has been extended to 100 characters;
  
• up to ~400 participants supported now (~60 until now, it was about time). Hopefully that will be enough.

=> And a bad one:

• From now on, you will have to save your modifications for every single line you change. There is now a "Save" button on each line; use it or hit the return key on your keyboard.

Hopefully there is no bug, but as before, if you notice anything strange, don't hesitate to tell me. Thank you all for your participation!


Edit: save buttons are back.

Edited by Guillak, 13 February 2012 - 05:11 PM.

[Guillak]

(Sorry for the double post)

I've just realized that a couple URLs you guys entered (copy/paste) were broken after I replaced them automatically by the corresponding video ID. My mistake, sorry, and I have just replaced the backup I had by a more recent one (thus containing the broken IDs), so double mistake, sorry.

There are very few of them, so no worry. You can easily detect them just by looking over the video thumbnail in your list. If your browser doesn't display an image, then the ID is erroneous. There are several workarounds, but the easiest solution (for you and especially for me) is to use the URL given by the "share" button below the YouTube video:

http://elisakreising...-yt-videos1.png


Thank you!


Edit: bellow => below

Edited by Guillak, 12 February 2012 - 09:16 PM.