{"id":5221,"date":"2013-02-10T23:05:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T04:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2015-08-07T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T23:08:59","slug":"magfest-game-over-austin-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/magfest-game-over-austin-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGFest Game Over Austin ROUNDUP!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last weekend\u00a0<\/em>a bunch of amazing MAGFestians (myself included) brought a magical slice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magfest.org\">MAGFest<\/a>\u00a0to Austin, Texas. It was called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/magfest-hits-the-road-baby\/\">MAGFest Game Over Austin<\/a>\u00a0<em>AND IT WAS GOOD.<\/em><br \/>\n(actually, it was\u00a0<em>REALLY ZOMBOFURKIN AWESOME<\/em>, but you get the point ;).<br \/>\nThis is my firsthand account of the glorious madness that was this first mobile MAGshow. ENJOY.\u00a0\\m|\u2665|m\/<\/p>\n<p>The shindig started early for me, as I arrived at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/red7austin.com\/\">Red7<\/a>\u00a0with the rest of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lords-of-Thunder\/131002600372412\">Lords of Thunder<\/a> to load in. We got that done, enjoyed some pizza &amp; soda, I logged some time on the freeplay Turtles in Time arcade cab with fellow Thunder Lord\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DanielTidwellOfficial\">Daniel Tidwell<\/a>, got made-up for the show (hair, make-up, &amp; kilt!!!), made sure merch was setup (i.e. watched the Ladies of Thunder [aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChipMom\">ChipMom<\/a> &amp; Jenja] make that happen), got destroyed in Mario Kart 64 by Tien from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GameOverVideogamesHQ\">Gameover Videogames<\/a>\u00a0(altho I redeemed myself later in the night battling C~Money), and then got ready to catch\u00a0<em>THIS<\/em> dude perform:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/034kDuyYXDE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextGenDoc\">Dr. Awkward<\/a>\u00a0kicked the night off\u00a0<em>WITH A\u00a0COLOSSAL\u00a0BANG<\/em> with his furiously delicious, cleverly constructed nerdcore rhymes. Honestly, I&#8217;d<em> heard\u00a0of<\/em> the dude before this show, but hadn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>heard<\/em> <em>him<\/em>. <em>IT WAS A GORRAM TREAT<\/em>. &#8220;Impostor&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Geekquilibrium&#8221; were my personal favs, both for the hilarious lyrics &amp; <em>DAT 8BIT GOODNESS<\/em>. If you haven&#8217;t checked him out yet,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawkward.com\/\"><em><br \/>\nFIX THAT NOW<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then it was <em>TIME FOR THE THUNDER&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQ3T5GbYOYo?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s kinda unfair to write this one up since, yanno, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lords-of-Thunder\/131002600372412\">I&#8217;m playing bass in the band<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0:3<em><br \/>\nAH WUTEHFURKEVAR HERE GOES NOTHING~<\/em>\u00a0We came to Austin, we played our 2nd live show <em>ever<\/em> (1st was 2nd stage MAGFest 11), <em>and we melted faces. <\/em>In other words,\u00a0<strong>SHIT WAS EPIC<\/strong>. <strong>8)<\/strong> Debuted a new track from Bushido Blade 2 (the closer for our set), which ties as my personal fav with the Guilty Gear 2 jam. <em>BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY<\/em>, I finally got to wear my kilt on stage. <em>AND IT FELT GOOD.<\/em>\u00a0;3 Also, BEWARE RANDOM ATTACK OWLS~ ;)<\/p>\n<p>Following our face-meltery was the debut of the all new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/descendantsoferdrick\">Descendants of Erdrick<\/a> line-up:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z90Pq8wAyXQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CONFESSION: I was probably both the most anxious &amp; excited for this set out of\u00a0<em>ANYTHING<\/em>\u00a0happening that night (even our set!). Short backstory: DoE are a big part of what pulled me even deeper into the VGM scene, to the point\u00a0<em>that I&#8217;m now playing in a VGM band with some of the former members of DoE sharing the stage with current DoE<\/em>. <strong><em>MINDSPLOSION. O.O<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nMuch has happened since then, including this lineup change, and thus a bit of conflicted feels.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>THIS SHOW COMPLETELY BLEW ANY &amp; ALL OF THOSE FEELS AWAY &amp; REPLACED THEM WITH GI-FURKIN-NORMOUS FEELS OF AWESOME!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lepre lead lineup &amp; stylistic change were indeed different; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amandalepre.music\">Lerabbit<\/a>\u00a0stated, more of an &#8220;RPG Adventure tribute band&#8221;,\u00a0and with a slant more towards prog rock. Works\u00a0<em>INCREDIBLY WELL, <\/em>as you should be able to tell from the video (and the crowd&#8217;s reaction in it). Seriously y&#8217;all, keep following this band. They&#8217;re just going to get better\u00a0<em>and better.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of following awesome people &amp; bands, be sure to catch the previous DoE members &amp; the\u00a0<em>THREE OTHER VGM ACTS <\/em>that they&#8217;re now involved in<em>:<\/em> LoT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GimmickBand\">Gimmick!<\/a>, &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheReturnersVGM\">The Returners<\/a><em>. <\/em>Where there was one VGM band\u00a0<em>there are now four<\/em>. <em>GOTTA LOVE IT.\u00a0\u2665<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then&#8230; there was Megaran:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4si6WT022a8?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As always,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MegaRanMusic\">Random aka Megaran<\/a> brought it <em>SOMETHING FIERCE.<\/em>\u00a0Honestly, I&#8217;ve seen him perform several times over the years, &amp; at various different types &amp; sizes of venues, but each show has always been consistent in the <em>PURE<\/em>\u00a0<em>EXCELLENCE\u00a0<\/em>factor. And I say this as, truthfully, not the biggest nerdcore fan! It&#8217;s quality nerdcore artists like Megaran, Doc Awk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schafferthedarklord.com\/\">Shaffer the Darklord<\/a>, etc. that make me question that, however, as they get my head bobbin&#8217;, feet movin&#8217;, and face grinnin&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Last but\u00a0<em>HOLY CRAP<\/em> <em><strong>NOT<\/strong> LEAST<\/em> are the furious force known as Urizen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DyY_NeeUN84?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urizenonline.com\/\">Urizen<\/a>\u00a0is another act that appeared at Game Over Austin that I&#8217;d heard of (&amp; always\u00a0awesome things!), but hadn&#8217;t witnessed in person yet. To sum up my first time experiencing them live:<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong> HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU~<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Their mix of metal, chip\/8bit\/synthy goodness, and\u00a0<em>INSANE<\/em> stage show (<em>ZOMBOFURKIN ROBOT MONSTER STAGE BATTLE FINALE ZOMG~!!<\/em>!) definitely made for an\u00a0<em>EXCELLENT<\/em>\u00a0headlining act. To top it off, their energy &amp; stage\u00a0presence\u00a0were\u00a0<em>MONSTROUS, &amp;\u00a0<\/em>crowd interactivity was <i>AMAZEBALLS\u00a0<\/i>(can you say\u00a0<em>THE BEST <\/em>group\u00a0Colossus\u00a0roar outside of MAGFest <em>TO DATE<\/em>???). Needless to say, I left the show\u00a0<em>A HUGE FAN<\/em>. And upon coming home discovered that their frontman, Thomas Drinnen, had also made <em>a\u00a0Chipmusic version of their latest album titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/urizen.bandcamp.com\/album\/8-bit-universe\">8-Bit Universe<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<em>THIS PLEASES ME GREATLY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And now to round-up this round-up with this MAG Austin round-up video by <a href=\"http:\/\/melissaflores.net\/\">Melissa Flores<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/npuRriuVO2I?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aw man, watching this video fills me with\u00a0<em>SO<\/em> many damn feels! <i>WHAT A ZOMBOFURKIN&#8217; GOOD TIME WE ALL HAD~!!! ^_^\u00a0<\/i>And most importantly,\u00a0<em>MORE TO COME<\/em>!!! \\m\/\\m\/<\/p>\n<p>Again,\u00a0<em>SO VERY MUCH LOVE<\/em> to everyone who was a part of this show. It was\u00a0<em>DAMN<\/em> amazing and I&#8217;m incredibly proud to have been a part of it. Until the inevitable next time, my friends, upon which I will undoubtedly tell you to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>GET DAT ASS TO MAGFEST!!!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>~<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresidentHoodie\">Hoodie<\/a><br \/>\n\\m|<a href=\"http:\/\/chiptuneswin.com\">\u2665<\/a>|m\/<\/p>\n<p><em>All full set videos provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RobALiquorStore\">Robert Swackhamer<\/a> of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/8bitx.com\">8bitx.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5297\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/magfest-game-over-austin-roundup\/magfest-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/magfest-logo.gif?fit=334%2C64&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"334,64\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MAGFEST\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/magfest-logo.gif?fit=300%2C57&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/magfest-logo.gif?fit=334%2C64&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.videogamedj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/magfest-logo.gif?resize=334%2C64\" alt=\"MAGFEST\" width=\"334\" height=\"64\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend\u00a0a bunch of amazing MAGFestians (myself included) brought a magical slice of MAGFest\u00a0to Austin, Texas. It was called\u00a0MAGFest Game Over Austin\u00a0AND IT WAS GOOD. (actually, it was\u00a0REALLY ZOMBOFURKIN AWESOME, but you get the point ;). This is my firsthand account of the glorious madness that was this first mobile MAGshow. ENJOY.\u00a0\\m|\u2665|m\/ The shindig started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/magfest-game-over-austin-roundup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MAGFest Game Over Austin ROUNDUP!!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1506,33,77,55,4230],"tags":[2057,1984,2142,2143,2128,2005,2899,2960,101,2299,2115,2119,1272,2962,2956,2955,2971,1734,941,696,2975,2963,2001,2954,2912,554,170,2968,669,175,2905,519,1064,2192,2189,2298,2898,2972,2973,2965,2977,2116,2118,562,2838,2895,2897,2896,2004,2970,2909,2910,1057,1056,2958,2959,2957,1955,2961,2964,1123,2007,173,1954,1113,2191,1411,2966,1956,525,2906,24,2344,1468,2557,2976,553,2967,655,2901,2969,2974,1858,169,2911,188,27,29,2342,30,191,2343,60,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-5221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-events","7":"category-game-music-vgm","8":"category-gaming","9":"category-music","10":"category-shows","11":"tag-m","12":"tag-mm","14":"tag-2143","15":"tag-8bitx","16":"tag-amanda-lepre","17":"tag-austin","18":"tag-austinites","19":"tag-awesome","20":"tag-awesometastic","21":"tag-badass","22":"tag-badassery","23":"tag-bandcamp","24":"tag-big-mat","25":"tag-box-men","26":"tag-boxmen","27":"tag-brad-macchioni","28":"tag-con","29":"tag-cover","30":"tag-covers","31":"tag-daniel-drinnen","32":"tag-daniel-tidwell","33":"tag-descendants-of-erdrick","34":"tag-doctor-awkward","35":"tag-dr-awkward","36":"tag-event","37":"tag-facebook","38":"tag-falconer","39":"tag-festival","40":"tag-game","41":"tag-game-over-austin","42":"tag-games","43":"tag-geek","44":"tag-geekery","45":"tag-geeky","46":"tag-google","47":"tag-internet-show","48":"tag-jay-davis","49":"tag-jim-watson","50":"tag-john-pike","51":"tag-julio-escamilla","52":"tag-kickass","53":"tag-kickassery","54":"tag-live","55":"tag-live-music-2","56":"tag-live-show","57":"tag-live-streaming","58":"tag-livestream","59":"tag-lobos","60":"tag-lord-smithy","61":"tag-lords-of-thunder","62":"tag-lot","63":"tag-mag","64":"tag-magfest","65":"tag-magfestian","66":"tag-magfestians","67":"tag-magfesting","68":"tag-magstock","69":"tag-mateo","70":"tag-mateo-john-marshall","71":"tag-megaran","72":"tag-mike-villalobos","73":"tag-nerd","74":"tag-nerdapalooza","75":"tag-nerdcore","76":"tag-nerdery","77":"tag-nerdy","78":"tag-paladin","79":"tag-pax-east","80":"tag-pax-prime","81":"tag-red7","82":"tag-remix","83":"tag-remixers-2","84":"tag-remixing","85":"tag-robert-swackhamer","86":"tag-rustin-luther","87":"tag-show","88":"tag-sir-hood","89":"tag-soundcloud","90":"tag-texas","91":"tag-the-beast","92":"tag-thomas-drinnen","93":"tag-tumblr","94":"tag-twitter","95":"tag-urizen","96":"tag-vgm","97":"tag-vgmusic","98":"tag-video-game","99":"tag-video-game-covers","100":"tag-video-game-music","101":"tag-video-game-remix","102":"tag-video-game-remixers","103":"tag-video-games","104":"tag-youtube"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":76,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}