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Released 12/15/2013.
Duration: 3:20.

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Tracks that OhGodBoss references:

• Ohgodwhat by Nick Smalley

Artist commentary:

Kevin Grant: (composer, booklet commentary)

So, this was one of my first chiptunes. People seem to like it. However, when I listen to it now, two years later, I realize how little I knew about Famitracker, and music composition in genearl. I like to think I've learned a great deal since Ohgodboss. Still, I guess it's catchy enough as it is. Enjoy!

Brad Griffin: (booklet editor, booklet commentary)

oh for the love of god!

Kate Holden: (track artist, booklet commentary)

I actually did two pieces of potential art for this, both featuring Dave and Jade fighting Bec Noir, since it seemed appropriate for an intense boss tune featuring a theme associated with Jade. There was a duller version of this as well as a more comic bookish one. A panel of friends agreed that this one read better, but it was a little flat, so I started brightening it and tweaking it, but still wanted to convey '8-bit', so I started playing around with a square brush throwing in this Darwina-esque square noise, which I thought looked pretty cool. It has been remarked that Jade firing an assault rifle in the air in front of a volcano is metal as shit. That's probably my favourite commentary on the image.)

Kate Holden: (Tumblr) 6/6/2013

Track Art for 'OhGodWhat Boss Battle Remix' by UWBW for Land of Fans and Music 3 (coming soon, I hope!!). Originally I drew this all with hard pixel edges:

...but it wasn't really 'working'. It looked a little flat and also a bit blobby up close (something I didn't like about my artwork for 'Amongst Smiling Faces' on SburbOST), which would have taken a fair bit of fiddling close up to fix. So I got out some smooth brushes and smoothed up a lot of the lines and added some glowy effects to soften things and bump the contrast. That looked nicer, but then I felt the link to the chiptune feel of the piece of music was lost. I decided to do something Darwinia-esque, got out a square brush and threw in a lot of square noise.

While I was feeling dissatsfied with the above image, before making those changes, I actually did a whole other piece of alternative track art though!

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I like this image in and of itself, but discussing with CoLab friends, it was felt that the first image would read better, particularly on a little iPod screen, and also that it was more dynamic, exciting and suited to the track in question.

As you can see from both, I knew I wanted to do something involving Jade and Dave on LoFaF, fighting Jack. OhGodWhat being, of course, a track that Jade made for Dave originally, and this being a boss battle remix.