🎮🕹️ MISSION: #LevelSelect 🕹️🎮 Reality is crashing. Collectable cartridges are humming. Somewhere in cyberspace, a secret level has opened. Will you select a stage… or get trapped in the loading screen? XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX Step 1: SELECT YOUR GAME Choose a video game, any video game. Nostalgia and obscurity encouraged. XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX Step 2: LOAD THE TRACK Create your game-inspired masterpiece. You can remix an existing track, reinterpret a game theme, or just ride the established vibes. Instrumentals are especially encouraged, but lyrics and samples are all welcome too. The more recognizable the energy, the better. XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX Step 3: DESIGN THE COVER SCREEN Your cover art should be based on or inspired by the game that inspired your music. Consider: 🕹️ Characters 🎮 Environments 👾 Enemies 💾 Retro interfaces ⚔️ Boss battles 🌌 Game worlds ✨ Power-ups Interpret, remix, re-imagine, mutate. Pish inclusion optional. XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX Step 4: BONUS LEVEL - MAKE IT MOVE Animate your cover. Create a fake game trailer. Lay down an imaginary let's play. Create a pixel-art animation. Make a ridiculous arcade attract screen. Extra points for making the song seem like it is actually playing inside a game. Tag your creation with: #LevelSelect You can also add this to your lyrics or track description: ==========🎮🕹️🐟========== Made for #LevelSelect A video-game-inspired music challenge. Press START and check the link for more details. https://gooddocstudio.com/listening?party=102 ==========🎮🕹️🐟========== XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX Step 5: INSERT CREDITS Be ready to give a rundown of your inspiration. What game inspired your track? Bonus points for telling us what level, character, location, boss, mechanic, or moment inspired it. XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX And that's it. Game on. INSERT COIN to CONTINUE? 🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙 --------- C.I.A.’s barkin’. Callin’ code red. Into digital exile I go instead. “D-d-d-d-debug mode active…” Ever watch a Pish get buried in claims? Borrowed a few thoughts, now dey want me detained! Thought “parody” meant everything’s free Now there’s a bounty on da head of dis Pishie! (Why me?...) So I dive headlong through da arcade, Where reality can’t catch me With subpoena grenades! (WO!..) Memory card buzzin’, Screen goes green, Secret menu’s open So speak to da machine! LEVEL SELECT! W-W-WARP ME A WORLD! Gotta finda place where reality’s unfurled! LEVEL SELECT! P-P-PICK A STAGE! Gotta run, run, run Through deez streets of Rage! Gimme quests! Gimme bosses! Gimme somewhere to flee! Boot a universe So I can swim in da scenery! Gimme castles! Gimme jungles! Gimme oceans made of light! Make it classic! Make it retro! 8-BIT’S IS ENOUGH, RIGHT? Sticky skin’s dissolvin’ Into polygon sparks, As I delve in da dungeon Fulla rat sharks! Twenty-seven Tamagotchis Transformin’ into terrain! Ice level’s warp gate glitched DAMN! Pretty lame! LOAD! LOAD! LOAD! Any digital destination! LOAD! LOAD! LOAD! No more basement incarceration! LOAD! LOAD! LOAD! Send me somewhere new! Quick, blow in dis cartridge We can disappear into! Maybe you remember A muddled mansion maze, Or jumpin’ over junipers In a pastel haze! Maybe there’s a bitcrushed kingdom Moored inside your mind, Where gravity gets cheesy And the stars are mis-aligned Or a glitchy city beat-em-up Fulla sentient NPCs You know, da one you loved When MP3s lived on CDs! I DON’T CARE! SEND ME THERE! Just give me somewhere else to go! I’m way too sweet for prison, So KONAMI THAT CODE, YO! GIMME LEVELS! GIMME WORLDS! GIMME SOMEWHERE TO RUN! Build universal nonsense! Make it dangerous! MAKE IT FUN! GIMME LEVELS! GIMME STAGES! GIMME ONE FOR DA AGES! Reality’s crashing in I prefer PIXEL CAGES! Gimme racers! Gimme fighters! Gimme monsters! Gimme flight! LEVEL AFTER LEVEL AFTER LEVEL AFTER LEVEL! P-P-P-PISH PARADE TONIGHT! Gimme rhythm-based raspodies! Gimme submarine towns! Gimme haunted shopping centers Where undead uglies chow down! Gimme disco battlefields! Gimme farms upon da moon! Gimme underwater castles With a synthesizer goon! Dump me inna de-sert desert! Flop me inna fungus forest! Bop me inna city builder! Build a boss with twelve health bars The more 'diculous, da better sir! Make a level with no lawyers! Make a level with no cops! Make a level where a dead chicken Runs a giant battle-bot! “Wait, what?” “Never mind!” SELECT! SELECT! SELECT! SELECT! SELECT! LOAD IT! LOAD IT! LOAD IT! GIMME LEVELS! GIMME WORLDS! THERE’S NOWHERE ELSE TO RUN! Build another stranger sun! Make a world completely unhinged! Make a mode with physics Dat make you cringe! GIMME LEVELS! GIMME STAGES! Keep da loading screens alive! Emulate an atmosphere Where a little Pish can hide! Gimme castles! Gimme races! Gimme planets made of pie! Gimme anything but lawyers With a warrant askin’ why! LEVEL-LEVEL-LEVEL-LEVEL-LEVEL-LEVEL-LEVEL-LEVEL! SELECT! “L-l-l-loading…” “...New level detected…” “…Oh, come on....”
