Joyswag: Win a DS with your songwriting skills!

by Justin McElroy on May 6th 2008 3:00PM

Attention amateur songwriters/singers/lyricists: No longer must your talent be shackled to basement concerts for your cats and stuffed animals. Now, if you enter our "Now You're A Songwriter (or You Have To Write the Lyrics)" contest, your skills could net you fabulous prizes.

Here's the skinny: You know the hit game You Have to Burn the Rope featuring the also hit song "Now You're a Hero," right? Well, we're giving you a chance to re-do the song with your own lyrics about a memorable gaming moment in excruciating detail. All you have to do is get the background music, make your own MP3 and go here to submit it to us. It's that simple. Don't feel shackled though, if you want to bust out some musicianship or editing skill on your submission, go crazy. Be creative.

The best entry will win a white DS Lite as well as Professor Layton and the Curious Village or The World Ends With You. Runner up will get the other game. But, more important than prizes, we'll be playing some of the best entries during the Joystiq Podcast this month, so you'll want to submit ASAP. If you're curious about this sort of thing, official rules are right here.

Download -- "Now You're A Hero (Instrumental)"
Read -- Submit your masterpiece

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Tags: joystiq-podcast, yhtbtr

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Does everyone have to check their email to confirm a comment? I'm pretty sick of it and I don't know how to change it. I've tried logging in and it doesn't allow me to. I get told my password is wrong but I'm still able to post with the same password.

If you get a confirmation email when you post, that means you entered an incorrect password. Your post still goes up if you click the link in the email, though. The password you should be entering is in every single one of those emails, though.

Thanks man, I've got it all sorted out and I even got my own avatar =D

Methinks GTA IV will feature heavily ^^

Yeah, well Me Knows Im sick of idiots using a style of english that should have died centuries ago...

Unless you got ahold of a time machine in the 1800's and decided to come to 2008 and stick around, please stop using methinks. Methinks you don't use it correctly anyways.

And this is not a message to this turd as much as it is a general turd broadcast, to all you turdlingers and turdtastics out there in turd land.

Well, I'm sorry you took offense to what at the time seemed to be a fairly valid point. In future I'll try and only use words that you approve of.

Hey Dick, methinks you used "methinks" the same way that Haggard did. Smart move in making your point.

On the confirmation emails, there should be a password (garbled numbers and letters) and it will say use it in future to avoid the confirm emails - write it on a post-it note and stick it on your moniter.

That said, I have no idea how to get an avatar and such.

click your name, and it will show you your post history, at the top of the posts and to the right it will ask, are you Haggard? if so click here to login, you put in your precreated password, then you can edit your password, profile, and avatar

I was planning to mock the original Turok. The scene after you kill the two jeeps in the cave. Then all the sudden, from the fog, comes a T-Rew with gatling guns, rockets, and a laser eye....

YHTBTR = GOTY 2008

Sorry, but Noitu Love 2 has already locked that award down.

Justin, we're hoping to chat with you about some upcoming stories. Can you email me at editor@pcgamer.com? (Your email addy is nigh impossible to find.)

Thanks,

Kristen Salvatore
(EIC of PC Gamer)

It's a trap!

Hi I'm Justin's er, um, administrative assistant, or, "his people" if you will. Any moneys given in advance for the writting of storeys can be sent to me.
Thanks!
Tim

Wow! It looks like Justin is hitting the big time! You know, PCgamer. What? You've never heard of it? Oh, well that's fair.

GET HER NUMBER, MCELROY!

And then give it to me.

So I can take her out on a romantic date at an expensive, luxurious restaurant and then skip out on the check.

tarp. :|

@deaftly

Justin can't repel job offers of that magnitude!

Kristen: you've got mail.

Big fan of yours Kristen.

Well played deaftly, yours was way better.

No idea what I even did but I fully agree.

"It's a trap"

I meant to put this in the reply to Kristen.

Thanks! That worked =D

I can't write good lyrics. Now, if this were a composing competition, I'd win.

I think I'll write a song about myself. At least that way there'll be one song about samfish and how great he is to combat against the 10 Fernando songs and how awful he is.

Fernando trollers lack both talent and ambition. Nary a song would be made. That, or they'll change it to "You have to burn the Fernando."

Ok, I have my idea, but I guess two questions are in order:

1)Any language restrictions?

2)Are our choices restricted to either use the mix as given or cover the instrumentals ourselves? More to the point, is there anything against remixing the track? The Official Rules leave me hazy on that

They say get creative, then to me that means get creative!

The winner will be the person who writes and sings the song in Klingon.

@Martez, um... if that's the case I hope they win a free sterilization.

Jesus christ people...just go buy a ds if you want one bad enough to do all this crap. lol

You say that like writing some lyrics and recording yourself singing them actually takes any real effort...

Okay, I just made up new lyrics to the song and I'm calling it "Ode to Crocomire" of Super Metroid fame. I'm not singing it, though; I don't like to sing. Anyone want to sing it for me and keep the game if we win? In case we also win a DS, I'll take it and still let you have the game. Deal?

Here's the first few lines:
"Oh Crocomire,
I hammered him with charged-up shots, you see.
The eight-eyed reptile;
He wasn't defeated quite that eas-ily."

OK, I see that we should submit the entries ASAP, but is there an official deadline?

says may 22 on the official rules.

Ah, I missed that official rules link the first time. Thanks.

The only thing lamer than reading the rules is asking for directions...

I kid. =) I was wondering the same thing. Thanks Jer

The official rules say that you can't use any other third party music other than whats on the backing track. But if i wanted to put my own drumbeat or something on (that I recorded myself) I can right?

Right, if it's user created, it's all gravy.

Is there an easy way to save the song onto my hard drive other than downloading a program to record the audio as it plays on my Windows Media Player?

The lyrics in my entry are about this time a shitty cash-in song from a shitty "game" got way more press than it deserved by a silly blog. Give it a rest, Joystiq, please. I'm amazed that this incredibly transparent attempt at band-wagoning has somehow penetrated your normally stellar crap filters.

Welp I submitted a song...

Entry submitted. Although that email address looked dodgy. Can you really put a plus sign in a gmail address, or is that a separator for the name?

Well, I entered mine, here's to hoping for the best!

mine's in too.
Hopefully It'll get listened to.
It has been a bad week after all. It would be my luck if it gets lost.

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