So, our collective will have its first birthday soon. February 28th is the date of the email that started it all, April 9th is obviously the original day of the Rapture, so we planned something big to go with it.

This is gonna be a one month event, starting February 28th, which is a Friday, with a generic release but tied to the beginning of the “C3 Month”, publishing that call to arms email and announcing the month of “festivities”.

VOICES OF THE AUTHORING WORLD

– We want this to really be about the project and its authors. So, we’re gonna hear from the people involved about their relationship with C3.

From you, the authors: how you got to know C3, why you joined, how you work on a daily basis. We want to show the world how hard you work and how thankful the community should be for the hours you put in. We want to showcase you and your talent. Also, this is supposed to be slightly skewed toward how cool the collective is: if you happen to drop a compliment to your fellow authors, excellent. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif”> It’s a self-celebrative thing: we want to feature you and your story but we would also love to show the community how good we are as a collective and how C3 inspired you keep on charting, doing more, etc.

From our community: how our users discovered customs, what’s their best C3 moment, how C3 songs made them play RB3 over and over. We’re gonna have a forum thread for the community to post in and we will schedule blog posts from you, diluted over the month of March.

FROM THE EYES OF THE CREATORS

– We’re gonna have a “from the eyes of the creators” series in which week by week one of the 5 admins (current and former) will talk about C3 and how it started/how it developed/our relationship with the group/etc. We will publish each post on Tuesday starting from March 4th. We’re gonna dig deep in our project’s vault and recover unused Rapture art, old test logos, text exchange on how the project came together, etc.

THEMED MONTH

– We’re gonna have themed releases throughout March, leading up to the big release of April 9th. Nothing fancy or big, but we’re gonna do themed releases that actually remind people of what we did during our first year. In example, a second covers pack, a new Weird Al pack, etc. all with a nice recall on the blog post to the original releases. They don’t need to be v2 of packs, they can even just be collection of songs from artists featured on different weeks, that way we can link back to more old releases. This way we do a nice build up AND we remind new users of what we released. As things stand, this is a tentative content planning:

2 weeks of artists already released

1 week of new FtV material, to recall our FtV output

1 week of old theme/new artists

1 week TBD

Again, this is tentative, suggestions are very welcome, just keep in mind the “retrospective” feel.

ONE YEAR OF C3 RELEASE DAY

– Finally, we’re gonna have a special release on Wednesday April 9th, instead of Friday 11th. We’re gonna release something as true as possible to Rock Band, which means it’s gonna be multitracks only. There’s a fair amount of songs around with multitracks available, if you don’t know where to look ask. We’re gonna keep this a mainly mainstream affair. There are gonna be no restriction on the amount of songs a single author can contribute but we always want to keep an overall 2:1 ratio of mainstream songs:”RBN material”. So if I do 2 mainstream songs, in example, another author can do an obscure one. Again, you, as an individual, don’t need to do 2 mainstream songs to do a single obscure/non-mainstream one, just make sure that when you submit you pick(s) there’s that 2:1 overall balance.

Alright, let’s the planning being, and pitch your multitracks as early as possible! ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif”>