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Walt Ribeiro - My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Theme Song For Orchestra

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My Little Pony “Friendship Is Magic” For Orchestra

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To read all about this arrangement go here. And be sure to check out my other theme songs.

Class Dismissed

Standardized Tests
Innovation-driven economy? Let’s standardize thinking!

Work Alone
Nah, you’ll never need to work as a team in the real workplace.

Minimum Essay Word Limits
The more words you use, the more of an efficient communicator you are.

Multiple Choice
All problems have exactly one correct answer. Otherwise guess C.

Student Loans

Now that we’ve spent years drilling these lessons into you…
You should have absolutely zero problems finding a not-soul-sucking job.
So you can pay us back for our “help”.

You’re welcome.

STUCK IN A CRAMPED PLANE
PLAY WITH EXPERIMENTAL HTML5 FEATURES

FACE: YOUR FEARS

Are you done with the :the game: series?

Anonymous

Pretty much.

Reimagine :The Game: Post-Mortem

Two things about my infamous Reimagine :The Game: (mid-2011)
1) I’m proud of my work.
2) And I sincerely hate it.

For every inventive game mechanic…
The level design for FDA12-18:TG: (Female Demographic Ages 12-18 :The Game:) building up on clever uses for the power of the Bieber.

…It was betrayed by my unpolished physics engine.
That frustrating Tea Party bounce-in-and-out-the-water level.

For every social issue I wanted to discuss…
Does marketing yourself as not-heterosexual promote LGBT-tolerance? Is it just a sex-sells money-grab? Are those mutually exclusive?

…I feared being preachy, and settled for cheap jokes.
I’m not sure if Ke$ha officially jumped on the bisexual bandwagon with Katy Perry and Lady Gaga.

For every piece of intelligent satire…
Satirizing the TSA mantra, “If you’ve got nothing to fear, you’ve got nothing to hide”, showing Wikileaks turning it against the US government itself.

…I slapped on a meme at the end.
Some rage comic cutscene about bacon.

Note — posting this post-mortem is not to please my profanity-puking critics, people poor with properly placed punctuation.

But wow did Reimagine polarize plenty of people.

I still think it’s a game that worked at the time, and many others think it’s still funny.
But I just needed to acknowledge what my game could have been, and what just ended up dumb.
Acknowledge this, before I do another thing dumb…
like winning another annual competition with Reimagine.

March Onwards

This month,

Reimagine :The Game: took home a Mochi Award at the Flash Gaming Summit.
Four Horsemen came in first place for the Pokki 1Up Contest, winning me $30k and a trip to GDC.
I shook hands with the CEO of Zynga while wearing a horse mask.

This is like the longest setup to an April Fools prank ever.