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  • Hello Everyone!

    We hope you're having a good new year, a lot is going on with the members of our team too and we have been discussing every day our plans with Serenity.

    Serenity Volume 3 Submissions Ending Soon

    We're just a month away from the end of Volume 3 submissions, if you have anything in progress then be sure to submit as soon as possible! Once the submission time has passed, we'll start working on the trailer for the launch, we might still be able to add content submitted a bit late but do not bet on it!

    Season 4 Additional Song

    During the announcement of the Volume 3 Season 4 blog post, we said that an additional song would be added that would go to both Open Taiko and OutFox Serenity, however, due to many issues, the author that we requested couldn't finish the production and had to stop development.

    Given the situation, we decided to do the following:

    1. No additional songs will be added to OutFox Serenity Volume 3.
    2. The next Volume will have an additional song instead.

    We could have found a way to add another song to Serenity Volume 3, but there would be only a month left of development time and we have decided that it is not enough time for people to develop charts for it.


    Those are all the short news we wanted to share for now, goodbye!

  • Here comes the last season of Serenity Volume 3, the Winter.

    This is the last season coming to Serenity Volume 3, each season added 3 songs and had 3 months of development for you to make and submit charts.

    Season 4 (Winter)

    Trailer

    BGAs shown on the video are not part of OutFox Serenity

    OpenTaiko Collab!

    As a special tradition of special events during the winter for Serenity, we have decided to shake things up a bit to reference the "Winter Updates" we released with Volume 1 and Volume 2. Thanks to a key member of the the Serenity Team, who shares their work with both OpenTaiko and OutFox Serenity, this collab managed to happen in a very quick and easy way, we're happy to be able to collaborate with another team of people who believe in open development.

    As for how the collab works, we have decided to share 5 songs from each of our collections with the other game, meaning: OpenTaiko gets 5 songs from OutFox Serenity and OutFox Serenity gets 5 songs from OpenTaiko. The songs were selected by vote for each team. Here's the list:

    OpenTaiko Gets

    Song Name Author
    B-Happy - Ace of Beat
    Eradication of Light - Mintorment
    brokenHeart resurrection estele - RILEY
    What Year Is This - Sevish
    Relaxation Piece of Conclusion - Zenth

    Both OpenTaiko and OutFox Serenity have notified and asked the song authors if they agreed with the sharing of their songs. We hope to continue working with OpenTaiko as a way to connect both communities and bring more collabs in the future, please check out OpenTaiko with the links below:

    New Songs

    FunkBoi (by SenPi)

    ΣxilƎ (By mrcool909090)

    ReCollapse (By H888 (H5 + DashyDesu))

    Liar Prison (By SiLiS ft. Karin Natsuki)

    RUiNED GLORY (By Sukima Altera)


    Songs added from OpenTaiko to OutFox Serenity are licensed under the OpenTaiko Default License, check the song folder for the license file.

    But that's not all, while submission will open with 5 new songs, an additional song is planned to be added later which will be added to both OpenTaiko and OutFox Serenity, meaning we'll be adding a total of 6 songs this season alone, we hope those songs ignite the vision of an epic chart for you to make and make everyone play and set their scores.

    Taiko charts both for songs added to Serenity and from Serenity will be available with the Winter Season, meaning you'll have lots of taiko charts to test and play right away!

    Special Message from Colin (OPTK and Serenity Team Member)

    Hi! This is Colin from the Serenity Team. As you may (or may not) know, I am also a member of the OpenTaiko charting team. Because of my unique position, I was able to initiate a special collaboration between Project OutFox: Serenity and OpenTaiko. My main goal was to highlight all of the talented artists in both the Taiko and Stepmania communities, and I hope that I fufilled my role well! However, I could not have done this alone! Thank you to Moru Zerinho6 for working closely with me (despite my very, very limited knowledge about licensing), Lirodon for the awesome trailer, the Serenity team for helping select songs to add into the game, all of the immensely talented charters who brought these songs to life in-game, and the development teams of both OpenTaiko and Project OutFox for making this possible! I hope everyone will enjoy all of these new songs and charts, and send your love to their respective artists! Happy drumming!

    Credits

    Those people are/were internal members of the project and helped with the pre-development of OutFox Serenity Volume 3:

    Current members Serenity/OutFox Team

    • Colin (The one who made OpenTaiko Collab possible, Taiko Chart Creation, Music Selection)
    • Lirodon (Website, Trailer, Assets and Website, Asset added to OpenTaiko, Serenity Publishment)
    • Melone (KBX Chart Creation, Music Selection, Asset added to OpenTaiko)
    • shockdude (GH Chart Templates and Chart Creation, Music Selection)
    • Daniel Rotwind (Chart Templates, be-mu/po-mu Chart Creation, Music Selection, Music added to OpenTaiko, Asset added to OpenTaiko)
    • Jose_varela (Music added to OpenTaiko)
    • Moneko (Music Selection)
    • Moru Zerinho6 (Website, SSC Templates, Music Selection, Serenity Blogs / Management / Organization / Wiki / Publishment)
    • Hanubeki (Music Selection)

    Former members of Serenity/OutFox Team

    • SHRMP0 (SSC Templates, Content Moderation, Music Selection, Third-Party Connections, Website, Serenity Publishment)
    • SheppyChris (SSC Templates, Music Selection)
    • Sevish (Sound Equalization, Music Selection)

    Join the Serenity Team!

    Are you knowledgeable and have some free time to lend a hand in making Serenity better? We're searching for individuals to contribute to the following areas:

    • Creation of SSC templates for upcoming songs: This involves adding essential metadata to SSC like credits and tempo changes, but not actually creating the chart.
    • Equalization of Audio: We need help balancing the loudness of future songs, so they don't sound too different from other Serenity songs.
    • Chart/Templates Development for any mode: You can start developing charts early for your favorite mode and also aid us in selecting future songs.
    • Quality Check: Help us moderate the quality of charts submitted to OutFox Serenity. Having different opinions from people who know how to create content will improve the pack.
    • Content Moderation: Keep in check with our volume spreadsheet and new song submission.
    • Asset Creation: Help us by creating images and or video for OutFox Serenity.

    Please note that like Project OutFox itself, OutFox Serenity is not for profit and has no monetary gains. We dedicate our free time to make a pack available for the community as a hobby. If you decide to join the team, we will respect your time and support you when possible, but we also expect your care and cooperation with the project.

    If you feel like helping us then join the Discord Server and mention any of the moderators, it can be in private too!

    Join the Community!

    Give feedback, share your content, discuss and talk with the community not only of Serenity but Project OutFox as a whole, join our Discord Server with over 2450 members!

    Temporary Pack

    As a new OutFox Serenity season comes, the past season gets a temporary pack release, this is meant for people to playtest charts and their content to check if everything so far is the way it should be.

    You can download the temporary pack here.

  • Hello everyone, some weeks ago we announced that soon a way to download simfile templates, without joining our Discord Server, would be coming. That function is now available for everyone by using our new Serenity Simfile Templates Page which includes all templates available for that song, the banner for that song, and BPM info.

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    But this is not all!

    We went ahead and also added a form for you to submit files, without joining our Discord Server, by using the Direct Chart Submission Form Page.

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    Those new pages should allow those without access to Discord to submit content for the community pack, take note that we'd like you to still use Discord if you can as is a lot easier to organize content and ask for a fix when something is wrong.

    Future Plans

    Here's a list of more Serenity-related content we plan to bring to the website.

    1. Up-To-Date Individual Volume Package Download.
    2. Serenity Volume Resume. (Port from the current one available from our wiki)
    3. Serenity Profile Resume. (Port from the current one available from our wiki)

    That's the news for now, we can't wait to see what more you can bring to OutFox Serenity!

  • A new season comes for OutFox Serenity Volume 3, we're going from Summer to Fall.

    News

    Song Artist Suggestion

    We have recently put out a form asking what you think about some proposed serenity plans and the future, One of the questions in specific was about how you would feel about an option to suggest Artists for us to contact, the response was extremely positive and so we went ahead and created a form where you can do exactly that! You can find it here: OutFox Serenity Song Suggestion Page, you might notice the text field to talk about the background of the artist, we want you to use that space to talk about how you view that artist and how you think their song can fit with OutFox Serenity, which modes might like it a lot or if you think it would just be cool, don't hold back on sharing what you think as we'll analyze every suggestion.

    We have also added a new button inside the serenity page to suggest song authors!

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    Simfile Templates

    Right now you're required to join our Discord Server to get simfile templates (or our GitHub Repository, GitHub isn't meant to be a very user-friendly interface however for non-programmers.), we will be changing that soon by adding a page where you'll be able to download templates directly from our website, we will keep you updated with a new blogpost when that happens.

    Volume 3 Temporary Pack

    The temporary pack for volume has been updated once again, as a reminder, temporary packs are not a release version but are instead meant to be used to test and try charting before the release at the end of season 4. Temporary packs might include unfinished content or even a lack of content such as art and charts.

    Download the Volume 3 Season 2 Temporary Pack here.

    Season 3

    Trailer

    BGAs shown on the video are not part of OutFox Serenity


    New Songs

    Like a Dream


    Mango Mangrove


    TR1CKST3RZ


    Serenity Volume 3 Spreadsheet

    The volume 3 spreadsheet has been updated with the new songs, comment on what you want to work on so others are aware!

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