Since this web started in 2005 we've reached several milestones. Here is a selection of them:
Last days of of August, 2005: After a hot summer, Gori Fater creates his first website, hosted at the free web host
www.atspace.com. GF Video Game Sheet Music (http://gorifater.atspace.com) is born with the goal of sharing
his video game sheet music creations in a moment when they were a very scarce resource in the Internet. Click here to go back in
time.
September, 2005: w3sp joins Gori Fater and submits his arrangements to GF Video Game Sheet Music. The web gets a cute logo image and a new design
consisting of two neat and very beautiful HTML tables worthy of the highest standards of the twentieth century Internet technology.
Simply amazing.
December, 2005: after many days adding new arrangements and the huge success of Gori Fater's
Sonic Piano Video, more arrangers join his project, and it's time to redesign everything again. Tables and more tables fill the site, which got a new
professional logo and its content divided into several pages. There are now some instructions for submitting sheet music and even a new Video section. The web
has over 100 arrangements available. Unbelievable.
April, 2006: the limitations of the free web host, like the maximum file size of 200KB, are killing the expansion of the site, which now holds over 200
arrangements. And also, since there are now several arrangers submitting their works, there's no reason to continue using the "GF" prefix on the web's name.
GF Video Game Sheet Music moves its content to http://www.gamemusicthemes.com and changes its name to Game Music Themes. Now it has got its own domain name!
There's also a new section for Recordings. But not everything is good news: Gori Fater learned how to use iframes and made a peculiar redesign...
Check it out yourself.
July, 2006: the administration of the website, including the evaluation of all the materials that are being submitted daily, tires Gori Fater,
who eventually stops arranging and dedicates every free moment he has to correct other people's stuff. He puts the project aside for a few months to focus on his
studies.
March, 2007: Game Music Themes resuscitates with a new dynamic design based on PHP. New MySQL databases have been created
to manage the sheets and all elements linked to them, like MIDI files, mp3 recordings and video performances; the process of updating the site is greatly
simplified.
November, 2008: Game Music Theme's web host complains about the amount of bandwidth and resources the web uses, so it goes back to a static structure, but
keeping its design. The Videos section and the Recordings section are removed. Gori Fater finds out his arrangements
are being sold at eBay by master-sayien, a guy called Dimitri
Jevaguine in real life who also sells illegally other products created by other people in digital format. After being contacted, Dimitri refuses to stop selling
the arrangements. Also, several websites plagiarize the content on Game Music Themes by opening the MIDI files. These events make Gori Fater a sad panda and Game
Music Themes is abandoned for a long time. Submissions stop being accepted and MIDIs are removed...
May, 2011: just for experimenting with web technology, Gori Fater remakes Game Music Themes with JavaScript/DOM and a new
interactive logo with some HTML5 elements. It proves to be a bad decision, because Google doesn't index the elements that are retrieved from XML files when the
page loads, and Internet Explorer just doesn't support the technology, as expected. A section to Request arrangements is created.
October, 2013: Game Music Themes is once more remade, this time with valid XHTML (except some Facebook stuff...). A
store is added along with new resources such as tutorials to continue helping everybody
to learn how to play video game music. Submissions are once again accepted. MIDIs are back. In the dawn of the eighth generation of game consoles, we feel once
again filled with energy and inspiration to continue our task, just as we were when we began in 2005, and are eager to discover what new video game music will be
composed for the new games. The game music landscape has changed a lot during the last years, and it's funny to see how many of today's best known game music
performers and arrangers took their first steps submitting their works to this site.
Kyle Landry, Laura Intravia,
w3sp... And the humble webmaster of Game Music Themes,
Gori Fater. Who knows what the future will hold for this web?