The story of 11.mid and its composer
I was having a look for Dink stuff a while back when I found this archived forum thread about the composer of 11.mid from freeware Dink.
Apparently Aki, as he's known, is 42 years old now, and wanted to be musically successful but never achieved great fame from his band "The Honest Love" and works as a typical Japanese salaryman in the field of programming which means he's too tired to compose music most of the time. The Chinese also apparently stole one of his songs and passed it off as their own in 2004 which broke his spirit somewhat. The nice part is that he apparently was contacted by the poster of the thread and ended up posting there pledging to updating his old site and maybe make more music.
I can't seem to figure out if this MIDI file is actually used in the game at all, however. I can't find a reference to it in Dink.dat or in the scripts. I imagine some mods have ended up using it though.
Apparently Aki, as he's known, is 42 years old now, and wanted to be musically successful but never achieved great fame from his band "The Honest Love" and works as a typical Japanese salaryman in the field of programming which means he's too tired to compose music most of the time. The Chinese also apparently stole one of his songs and passed it off as their own in 2004 which broke his spirit somewhat. The nice part is that he apparently was contacted by the poster of the thread and ended up posting there pledging to updating his old site and maybe make more music.
I can't seem to figure out if this MIDI file is actually used in the game at all, however. I can't find a reference to it in Dink.dat or in the scripts. I imagine some mods have ended up using it though.
That's neat to know. The website has an mp3 version of the song, too, with singing. Hah!
It's used in the freeware version of Dink, when you return to King Daniel after defeating Seth.
It's used in the freeware version of Dink, when you return to King Daniel after defeating Seth.
Hah, what a find. Love the melody and him singing along was awesome. 
For some reason, this is one of those times when it just makes me wanna reach out to this person and let him know there are still people out there that all these years have enjoyed his music in some way or another.
It's also a perfect example of why I hate 95% of 4Chan, for the record. I'm actually surprised how clean of idiots that particular thread was.
It's also a perfect example of why I hate 95% of 4Chan, for the record. I'm actually surprised how clean of idiots that particular thread was.
