Congratulations everyone! We've made it one year!

 

I picked up rocksmith and started making customs a few months before with a very good friend of mine named Alex (aka Shinyditto12). We decided to team up and make Chevelle, Tool, and Alice in Chains customs together. It was a fun project where we racked up over 100 CDLCs together. You can view our original collaboration document here: http://goo.gl/jM4xte

I decided to make this website when our predecessor went down where I hosted my customs and there was no other custom website to turn to. I was messaged by Ally (not to be confused with my fiancee, Alyx) a friend of ours, at around 6 AM in the morning that the predecessor was no more. I’ve been wanting to run a long-term project for years. I quickly decided to make a new forum/search and invited users over.

I noticed in the Rocksmith Custom community that it could be done so much better, with so many features it was currently lacking. It started with a simple new install of phpbb, donations rolled in, I put in $500 to help jumpstart us. Donations kept rolling in and I used them for domain name, IP Board + Addons License and more. Our community kept growing and I know I created something awesome. @ created the initial integration, then we acquired the skills of @@hdnsmbt and merged his project with ours. That’s the beginning story of CustomsForge. Something we all should be proud of.

 

Magfest 2015

A milestone this year was our appearance in the form of a panel about custom songs in music video games. CustomsForge Developer @@zerkz represented on the panel, talking about the community, and the process of making customs. You can watch the video here:

 

 

We also had a Rocksmith setup for a few days where people came to jam with us!

Hopefully we will see you there next year!

 

This wouldn’t be possible without you, the community!

All the charters creating songs.
A thank you to our top charters

All the developers for making the tools Editor on Fire & Rocksmith Toolkit

@ and @@hdnsmbt for making our search database even possible to begin with.

@ for the modern ignition design

Our modteam for keeping the forums/chat clean.

@@Attitude, @@Izzy, @@The Troglodyte, @@YLedbetter, @@luiza

The Rocksmith Championship team.

Past staff members that helped us (Spades, we miss you!)

@@Darjusz & @@Lovroman for designing our upcoming song app.

The admins who help with very important decisions and keep everything under control

@@Unleashed2k, @, @, @@Teinashu, @@hdnsmbt

 

Thank you all once again and today we will like to announce our goals for 2015-2016.

 

Ignition Search + Comments

Our goal is to have ignition use a separate database and comment system. This will still be tied to your username but everything will be handled under ignition. Our ultimate goal is ignition to be the ultimate place for Rocksmith Customs. To learn how to do it with step-by-step guides, to our new request system, and our advanced search features.

 

With ignition you’ll be able to do the following:

1. Step by step guide on how to create customs. (Ran into a problem? The FAQ Tutorial system will guide you on what to do)

2. Links to Editor on Fire & Rocksmith Toolkit

3. Submit requests, view current requests and search requests

4. Search and filter CDLC in every way you can imagine, upload and edit CDLC you created, view and manage your collection of downloaded CDLC, get notifications on new or updated CDLC

5. New front-page with charts (top downloads per week, etc)

6. Comment on new CDLC and get better feedback & more!

 

CustomsForge Song Manager (CFSM)

I’m proud to announce we have made amazing progress with our new desktop app. We plan on releasing a beta test later, and a website to download the application from.

Current features completed:

1. View all of your custom songs (Artist, Song, Album, Last Updated, Tuning, DD, Arrangements, & CDLC Author

2. Find duplicate songs. (Have two copies of War Pigs by Black Sabbath?! Find and fix it!)

3. Launch Rocksmith via the Steam Shortcut built in

4. Backup your Rocksmith Profile

5. Export Song List via CSV or BBCode

6. Search through your CDLC

http://i.imgur.com/o3Dda7l.png

^{(Please note this is an alpha screenshot and will not have to reflect on the final product)}

 

More features & a beta release announcement coming soon!

We have additional announcements coming throughout the year, make sure to stay tuned!

 

As always remember to support ubisoft by purchasing official products (Rocksmith 2014, Rocksmith 1 + import, official cord, and any official DLC releases). Thank you ubisoft for making such an awesome game that we all learn and love.

 

Thanks again everyone for making this happen!

 

https://www.facebook.com/customsforge

https://www.twitter.com/customsforge

I'll do a stream for this occasion on Sunday featuring customs made by all those listed up there ;)

 

Here is the link for the stream :

I see a very lack of anything made by me XP

It was almost Teinashu's 1 Year CDLC Anniversary :D

@@Shinyditto12 it's not my fault if you're not mentionned in the first post of this topic...

 

Sorry i didn't play any of your customs maybe another time!

@@Shinyditto12 it's not my fault if you're not mentionned in the first post of this topic...

 

Sorry i didn't play any of your customs maybe another time!

 

I was too, i was the first person Mark said!

@@Shinyditto12 i missed it mostly because it wasn't in color and your named isn't mentionned in the list in the middle of the post where Unleashed even put his name :huh:

Happy Anniversary!.  Little did I know I stumbled upon CustomsForge a month after you started.  Cant thank you guys enough for all your hard work and passion.  Here's to you.  Cheers.

Happy Anniversary everyone! The best site on the webz :-)

Cant believe i missed our first birthday, got so much going on at the moment.

A huge thank you to you all for making this happen, i cant make CDLC's yet so I donate instead, hell I cant play most of the customs that I download but I improve each time i pick up the guitar.

Congratulations on your anniversary and all the hard work you've put in.  It's an amazing site.  The site and all of the participants have added greatly to my Rocksmith experience.