Hey Party Members!
Sorry for the late post, I didn't have my ducks in a row this morning and it threw me off for a minute there. :D
Today's track is a request from one of our newest Party Members, Vulpy Pax! It's intended for a village in perpetual night. something like Treno from FF9, or Lumina/Rao from Legend of Mana. As I was writing, I started picturing this village at night also being covered in rain, and somewhat poor. Kind of like Zozo from FF6. Ev...
2022-07-19 14:15:38 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
I'm just gonna come out and say it. I love this track.
I have a tendency to add a lot of elements into my music. But sometimes the most effective thing you can do is just keep it simple. That's the approach I took with this one. There are only 3 ingredients: guitar, strings and flute. As long as I've been doing this, I'm still amazed at how much weight a strong melody and chord progression can carry.
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2022-07-15 14:01:29 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Today I'm fulfilling a song request for one of our Mages. The request was for an overworld theme. Long time members will know I've done a handful of these before, but after reviewing them we determined none were right for this persons game. We needed something a tad darker, less upbeat.
From what I've gathered, the game is based around a war. So with that info in mind, I was off and running. The writing process went pretty smoothly on this one. No real...
2022-07-12 14:04:09 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: I slightly adjusted the mix after posting, so if you downloaded right away, there is a better mix available now!
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
I had a request for a whimsical windy feeling village tune, so I busted out the acoustic guitar and went for it! It's funny, because during the writing process, sometimes you'll get one or 2 things down and you can already "hear" the whole song. Then it just becomes a matter of filling things in.
This song was kind of the ...
2022-07-05 13:55:24 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members! Happy Friday.
The Tournament is moving right along as the next two fighters are selected. It's funny, last weeks video took me a ton of time, but this weeks came together really easily. Granted, it's much simpler overall, but still, it's just funny how that works.
It's a bit tough writing a "seductive" song using 16-bit samples. Can't exactly say I succeeded but I did what I could with the saxophone sample I had. I've been listening to a bit of 90's Pop recently...
2022-07-01 14:01:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members, Happy Tuesday!
Remember last week when I said I was working on a song and just couldn't get it right? So I had to change gears and release a different one? Well...I think I got it right!
So the thing about this song is, that it isn't really a 16-Bit song. *Gasp!* I thought it might be nice for you guys (and for me) to change things up slightly and release some non-16 bit tunes for the Tuesday songs here and there. In fact, I already have a reque...
2022-06-28 14:00:33 +0000 UTC
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Surprise Saturday post! Hope you are doing well today. :D
So I mentioned yesterday that the limitations of RPG Maker can be...well, frustrating. Don't get me wrong, I've managed to make a lot of great content using the engine, but overall the engine really hasn't grown too much since it's creation. In fact, from what I've heard, they've actually taken a lot of steps backwards as far as features go.
As it turns out, I'm not the only one who is frustrated with the engine. <...
2022-06-25 16:36:06 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Welp, it's here! Episode 100(ish). I tried to get a bit fancier on this than my usual videos. To be honest, it turned into a major headache. RPG Maker is just too limited on what it can do (I'm going to make a special bonus post about this fact...look for that one tomorrow).
I ended up having to make a green screen in RPGM, record the characters and the dialogue over it. Then I brought it into Davinci (my editing program) and animated that w...
2022-06-24 15:19:51 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Whelp, not gonna lie, yesterday was a super rough writing day. If you've been around a while you know this happens from time to time. The thing is, I did write something really cool, and I think it has a ton of potential still. But I just couldn't find something that I liked to finish it off. So I had to file it away to be finished at a later date.
Unfortunately, that meant I had to scramble last night to find a replacement for today. I was al...
2022-06-21 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday (again) Party Members!
I wanted to do this in today's video post but it was just too much to squeeze in, so here is a special bonus post for today.
1. So next week is episode 100!
Holy crap, I can't believe I've done this many already...
...Ok technically I already hit video 100...and my numbering system in the archives is a little off since I bundled some of the early tunes into 1 zip folder...plus there were the Patron excl...
2022-06-17 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Today's song is a bit of a different one! While writing I just kinda let it all go and started playing really weird rhythms that I normally wouldn't and it somehow all came together. I even ran it past a trusted composer friend of mine asking "Is this too weird?" and he assured me with a simple "Nah I dig this." Sometimes that's all I need to hear! :D
I'm going to keep today's post short, because I'll be making some announcements later today, and it was...
2022-06-17 14:01:07 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Fulfilling a request this week! The scenario laid out was:
"The empire is losing a battle against a barbarian tribe and they are low morale. The area is an artic tundra. The camp has plenty of wounded soldiers, they are low in supplies/ food."
To be quite honest, I thought this was going to be a tough piece to write. But it actually came together fairly easy. I laid down the chord progression first, starting on a minor c...
2022-06-14 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Today's episode comes paired with a really cool, kind of bluesy tune. This tune is actually my 2nd attempt for todays song, as the first one sounded a bit too...uhhhh, intimidating villain-y. That song will make its way into the vids soon enough though, there is plenty of material to go along with this group to make it work! :D
I thought it would be cool to go a bit further with some of the other fighters participating in the tourny, so most of them are...
2022-06-10 13:49:39 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Well, I'm back at it! I've been away from the studio since Thursday (actually, I didn't write anything new for about a week). It was nice to step away for a couple of days, to clear my head, but the only problem with doing that is a feel like I lost some writing momentum. If you are in the Discord server, you may have seen me post about this yesterday. It was an uphill battle getting something finished for today, bu...
2022-06-07 14:01:45 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Hope you all are doing well today. I'm actually out of the studio for a couple of days. It's nice to get away once in a while, but I had to pull a little bit of crunch time to get this vid together haha. BUT! I did it, and so now I can kick back for the weekend.
Because of the time frame I had to work in, today's episode could almost be considered "filler" if this were a legit anime. I thought it would be fun to introduce a bunch of characters who are t...
2022-06-03 14:01:59 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
I thought I would continue the Temple theme thing this week with a Forest Temple track. Well, that's how I started anyway. Once the track really came to be I started to wonder if Forest Temple was still the main vibe. It started to make me think of like a misty/stoney kind of location. BUT Ultimately I think it still applied enough so I rolled with it.
The structure of this one is a bit more fluid than my normal stuff. There is a consistent percussive ...
2022-05-31 14:05:06 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Today's vid was meant to provide a slight cool down after last weeks video. After all, if I just did match after match after match, the tournament would be over way too quick! I still wanted the song to maintain the high energy that has been building, so I came up with this tune.
I took some inspiration from Mt. Koltz (FFVI) for the intro and then kind of veered off into my own thing. The foundation of the song went down pretty easily, tbh. The strings ...
2022-05-27 14:02:00 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Don't you love it when things just line up perfectly? If you remember on my Fire Temple post, I had mentioned doing themed temples for a couple of weeks. Well, Richard made a suggestion this week that lined up perfectly with that idea.
He shared a tune from Golden Sun (great game, btw) that got the inspiration going. The song originally was intended for a snowy city, but it has such a grand and melancholy feeling to it that I couldn't help but im...
2022-05-24 14:05:56 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Today is the day! The action is finally beginning after a TON of buildup for this tournament arc. Tbh, I was a tad worried if things were going to go like I had hoped. After all, I can't exactly do Dragonball Z or Yu Yu Hakusho levels of action using RPG Maker. But after getting this vid together, I'm feeling even more confident about the upcoming episodes.
I did the thing again, where I had a song all ready to go, but when I dropped it into the video i...
2022-05-20 14:01:34 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
This song was written at the request of Richard, one of our newest Party Members. Thanks for the suggestion, it was a fun one to write!
This song was written to have a Castlevania vibe to it, but for any RPG devs, you could still use this for a Battle tune variation!
I've included some options on this one, due to the nature of the intro and stuff. I broke the song down into 3 versions, the Intro, the Loop, and the Full version. They should ...
2022-05-17 14:06:16 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
If you are part of my discord server, you may have seen my message last night about this one being a grind. I was pulled away from the studio on Wednesday, so I had to get everything done for this yesterday. That meant write the song, write the script, animate the video, do any extra artwork I needed, edit the video, etc. I generally like to split that up across 2 days because as you can see, it's a lot to do.
BUT that being sa...
2022-05-13 14:01:59 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
How have I not done a Fire Temple track yet?!?! You'd think that within the first 200 tracks I've done for Youtube/Patreon one would have slipped in there somewhere. I suppose there are a couple that could have worked, but I never wrote anything specifically for it.
I don't know about you guys, but for me the most iconic Fire Temple is the one from Ocarina of Time. So in light of that I modeled this track around that, keeping it fairly ambient and spar...
2022-05-10 14:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Today's song is pretty hype. It's been a couple of episodes since we saw what Miranda and Lukas were doing, so I thought we could check in on them. It's an action packed sequence where they...find their way to their seats. Riveting.
I had some fun making this one though for a couple of reasons. For starters, I had to fill out the audience, and I didn't want to have a ton of repeat faces. Soooo my lovely Party Members, you may be pleased to see that all ...
2022-05-06 14:01:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members! Happy Tuesday!
I had to come to terms with the fact that I'm just on a sci-fi music kick. It won't be a forever vibe, so I figure why not just ride it out and get some sick spacey tunes out of it?? :D
The great thing about these kind of tracks, is that many times in JRPGs, even if the game is primarily fantasy based, by the end game your party still may end up in some hyper futuristic area. Final Fantasy has done that multiple times, Chrono Trigger did it, Legen...
2022-05-03 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Ok so, you remember last week when I mentioned scrapping a song and writing another? Well the main reason I did that was because the original song didn't fit the scene. For this weeks vid though, I think it worked great. Can something be considered "Lost Media" if it was only lost for a week?? 🤔
The song doesn't kick in right away though. To keep with the flow of things I started off the video with the colosseum song from a couple we...
2022-04-29 17:29:12 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: Ahhh crap I screwed up the post time again! One day I'll figure out the difference between AM and PM. :O
Happy Tuesday Party Members!
A lot of my Patron exclusive songs have been very dark and broody recently. Very sci-fi adjacent. So I thought it was time to return to the protagonists roots with a sleepy little village tune.
It was a good change of pace for me to be honest. I haven't written anything like this in a couple of months so I was able to experiment a ...
2022-04-26 15:49:00 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
If you've been hanging around me for a while, you know that every so often I will decide to scrap ideas in the eleventh hour. Today's song was such a case...well, to be fair I scrapped it closer to 8:30...
I'm glad I did in retrospect. The first song I had lined up was good, but when paired with this scene it wasn't great. I tried to steer clear of some of my writing habits on my 2nd attempt, which to me really makes this song shine. Anyway, I ...
2022-04-22 14:02:00 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Oh man, I am REALLY happy with how this one turned out. I know I say that like, almost every post, but as creatives yourself, you all probably know that sometimes you make something and it just reminds you of why you love to create in the first place. This is one of those cases for me.
The inspiration for this track is evident in the thumbnail. Last weekend, I was listening to one of those "Best N64 music" playlists, and a trac...
2022-04-19 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
So truth be told, I wasn't sure what I wanted this song to be. I knew where the scene was going to take place, but how often do people look up "JRPG Arena Lobby Music?" I figured, colosseum sections in games are generally seen as like a side quest or a mini-game, so I can present it as that. The result was a fun little bluesy tune!
On another note, I've released a "new" music pack today! I put new in quotes because you all have already ...
2022-04-15 14:04:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members!
I've been expanding my sound palette a bit recently. Well, really returning to my roots. For a while I've been doing strictly SNES sounds, but I've started incorporating N64/PS1 sound elements into songs again. I did this a lot when I first started my Youtube channel/patreon.
All that is to say that while I was experimenting with some sounds this weekend, this song really just fell out mostly written. In one sense, it's a bit simpler than some other son...
2022-04-12 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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