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Healer #206 Uncertain

Happy Wednesday Party Members!

I hope you've had a great week so far.

Today's tune is a bit different. I took a couple of attempts at fulfilling some suggestions but honestly, nothing was clicking. So instead I opted to go a bit rogue with my writing process. The structural layout of this tune is a bit all over the place. Honestly it feels like there are 3 distinct sections.

There is a big sci-fi droning section, which leads in to a tribal drum section, which leads into an e...

Warrior #186 Village

Happy Friday Party Members!

When I'm having a rough writing day, I'm always thankful that Bert from the past has done a lot of extra work. There are stretches where I'm in the zone and just dishing out songs left and right, and then there are stretches where I'm tossing out ideas all day.

Yesterday was a "toss out all ideas" day. Nothing was clicking for me. So finally I decided to go back through my songs folder and look for anything that would catch my ear.

I was glad to ...

Healer Songs - 2nd Half of 2024

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This includes the following songs:

• Sleepy

• 2024-07-10 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Healer #205 - Rival

Happy Wednesday Party Members!

Got a suggestion the other day for a "cool guy boss" theme. Admittedly, I may have lost sight of the boss theme aspect along the way, but I think this still works well as a rival theme. It's more along the lines of Gary's theme before you battle him in the original Pokemon games.

This tune was actually a bit slower until about 30 minutes ago. I was literally about to export it and thought "What does it sound like if I speed it up a bit?" After mes...

Warrior #185 Tactical

Happy Friday Party members!

For all my friends in the States, I hope you had a great Independence Day. And for everyone else, I hope you had a great Thursday! :D

In the spirit of the holiday, I wanted to do something in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics. Because nothing says America like a Japanese game right? XD

It's a fairly simple tune in execution, but I think it would work great for cutscenes, or as a character theme. Just some feel good moments when the party is rally...

Healer #204 Sleepy

Happy Wednesday Party Members!

So recently, I haven't been sleeping well. It's not an every night thing but I've been waking up at like, 2-3 in the morning and then just can't get back to sleep. That happens to all of us once in a while, usually it's no biggie. Welp, my week started off with 2 nights in a row like that, and yesterday I was feeling it.

Initially I had planned to do a different style of song, something kind of high energy. But I'm going to be honest with you, it's R...

Warrior #184 Mystical

Happy Friday Party Members!

Someone mentioned recently that there is a lot of Legend of Dragoon influence in my songs. That game is one of my favs of all time so I'll gladly take the compliment. With that in mind, I thought I would lean into that influence a bit with today's tune.

LoD has a very unique OST. The composers easily could have gone with a somewhat traditional approach to what you'd hear in a medieval setting (think Skyrim), but instead they went with a more mystical ap...

Healer #203 Castle

Happy Wednesday Party Members!!!

ICYMI, no this is not a mistake. My Healer tunes will now be released on Wednesday, and Warrior/Mage tier tunes have been moved to Friday. Not everyone saw my post about it so I just wanted to address that off the bat.

Ok now for today's song, I pulled from the suggestion box again. The suggestion was for something like the Hyrule Castle theme from Link to the Past. Unlike future Hyrule Castle themes, the theme from that game was very dark and broo...

16 Bit Fantasy II - Royalty Free Music Pack

Imagine immersing your players in a world of nostalgia, taking them back to the days of classic gaming with music that perfectly captures the essence of the beloved 16-bit era. With this pack, you can do just that. Featuring a collection of 16 high-quality tracks created by the talented composer Bert Cole, this 16-bit SNES-inspired music pack is perfect for a wide range of games and projects. From retro-style JRPGS to modern indie titles, this pack will help you set the mood and keep players en...

16 Bit Fantasy - Royalty Free Music Pack

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Schedule Adjustment Update!

Hey Party Members! Hope you had a great weekend!

After a bit of consideration, I've decided to adjust the upload schedule just a smidge.

Don't worry, I'm still putting out 2 songs each week, but I think moving forward my release schedule will be:

Wednesday - Healer tier song

Friday - Warrior/Mage tier song

So yeah, not a huge change or anything, but this way Monday doesn't feel like a crunch time to get something out the nex...

Healer #202 Dungeon

Happy Friday Party Members!

So a few weeks back, I did a FFXIII style song for my Tuesday post. I really liked the sound I got on it, and I wanted to do something in that vein again. So, viola! It ended up longer than I anticipated, mainly from getting the loop to work right (which just involved adding and extending sections).

The idea behind it is as you are walking through an ancient ruin, it starts to come to life, revealing the hi-technology that's actua...

Warrior #183 Mystical

Happy Tuesday Party Members!

Today's tune is inspired by a track from Pseudoregalia. If you've never heard of it, but you're a fan of metroidvanias or old school 3D platformers....dude. Go check it out!

It's a short (but very sweet) indie game initially made for a game jam. It was so well received in that jam, that the dev expanded it and released a full game. Even though you don't hear about it as much as other games like Hollow Knight, Animal Well, Crow Country etc....it did VER...

Healer #201 Home

Happy Friday Party Members!

Today's tune is inspired by a mixture of things. So for starters, in case you can't tell by the thumbnail, I recently played Undertale for the first time. (True Pacifist baybee!)

...and yeah, I totally get why it was such a huge hit.

I really love the music. I'd heard a bit of it before, but actually hearing it in context made me appreciate it so much more. So this tune is partly inspired by that.

I also took a little inspiration from a post...

Warrior #182 Swamp

Happy Tuesday Party Members!

Well would you look at that, I spend one day in Louisiana and suddenly I'm writing swamp music! XD

Jokes aside, this strikes me as a pretty versatile tune. Yes it could be used a theme for a swamp, but you could also use it as a village tune, or even a characters theme song.

I threw a few real instruments into this one, mainly acoustic guitar and then a harmonica at the last minute. If you are in discord, you may have seen my post "Decided I wan...

HEALER #200 MAIN THEME

HAPPY 200TH SONG PARTY MEMBERS!!!

Hard to believe we've reached this milestone already. I've grown a lot as a composer since I started doing this stuff, and I wanted to reflect that in today's song.

It's a big deal reaching this point, so the song had to be BIG and EPIC. So I did what I had to do....

Orchestral.

I know, I know...I've done some orchestral in the past but you guys probably know that I don't feel super strong in that area. But I've been working on this ...

Warrior #181 Battle

Happy Tuesday Party Members!

This one is long overdue, but a while back Hikitsune Red had mentioned doing something in the style of Ace Attorney. Unfortunately his request was lost in the shuffle for a while...until I redid the suggestion box on Discord.

I never played the AA games, but I know they are kind of a big deal. The music reference I was given was really bombastic and electronic so I went for that same kind of energy. Honestly, it wasn't until this morning that I realiz...

Healer #199 Village (DOS style)

Happy Friday Party Members!

I had a few different candidates for today's release, but ultimately decided to go with a suggestion that Mondune dropped a few weeks ago. The suggestion was for some old school, MS-DOS style tunes reminiscent of the Might and Magic games.

Some of you aren't old enough to remember that DOS sound, or even to have played an MS-DOS game...but I was there man. I WAS THERE! Those games may seem really primitive by today's standards, but they were something s...

Warrior #180 Cyber

Happy Tuesday Party Members!

Ok so I'm either back home or on my way back today...not sure tbh. The only thing that is certain is...I'm very tired. XD

But today's song is a doozy! It definitely took a turn that I wasn't expecting towards the end, and I did something that I've never done in one of these tracks before! What that is...well I'm not going to spoil it here, you'll just have to listen and find out.

As I was finishing up this tune, it occurred to me that it was givi...

Healer #198 Tension

Happy Friday Party members!

Actually...its Tuesday at the time of writing this...that's a little behind the scenes magic for ya. :D

Right now I should be at Comicpalooza kicking off the weekend of booth-tending. Can't wait to let you guys know how it went!

Today's song is a simple one, but I think it's pretty effective. It's very reminiscent of something you'd find in the old MGS games, like when you've been discovered but you are trying to hide to lose your...wanted level I...

Warrior #179 Slums

Happy Tuesday Party Members!

I've never played Saga Frontier, but apparently I need to! I had a request pop up in the suggestion box that referenced a city called "Koorong" from the game, and I immediately fell in love with the track. It's got a very funky, almost island-y vibe to it.

My tune ended up being a bit darker sounding than the reference. I threw some reggae elements in there as well because...well, I love reggae drum beats. I also messed around with the tempo a bit. Ori...

Surprise Saturday Update - New Camera, Comicpalooza, Collections

Happy Surprise Saturday!

Just a couple of quick updates/announcements for ya + testing out my new camera. Enjoy!

-Bert

P.S. I forgot to mention it but I'm getting together a post for Friday ahead of time so uploads will not be interrupted for this week.

Healer #197 Village

Happy Friday Party Members!

When was the last time I wrote just a straight up "village" theme?? I can't remember....

Ok I had to check. Looks like it was December last year...at least that was the last track labeled village. Anyway...

I had more Secret of Mana style song requests so I booted up that sound font for this tune. I debated on having drums in it, tried out a couple grooves but really I felt like it worked better without them.

There are a few mo...

Warrior #178 Ambient

Happy Tuesday Party Members!

Soooo have you guys heard of Animal Well yet?? It's a little game that not many people are talking about at the moment... :P

In case you don't know, Animal Well is an indie game that released on May 9th and it's blown up the internet with its strong sense of style and many...MANY secrets. I grabbed it on Friday and played over the weekend. Man, it's been a great experience, but I won't spoil anything for you guys here. If you like puzzles, or metroidv...

Healer #196 Rain

Happy Friday Party members!

Those of you who are active in my Discord (I'm trying to get better about posting in there, I swear!) may have seen my message yesterday about what kind of day I was having. Basically, it was a "none of these ideas are good enough" kind of day. I made several attempts yesterday morning but nothing stuck.

I was actually really close to venturing in to the horror ambience territory, because when you are stressed, it's easy to write stressful music. XD

Warrior #177 Shop (Earthbound Style!)

Happy Chewsday Party Members!

Yesterday I started 6 different songs. SIX.

You might be saying "Oh sounds like it was a productive day then!"

Wellllll started isn't the same as finished. XD

I only started that many because I kept tossing them out after an hour or so.

Actually, this was like, song number 2 I believe, and it came together pretty easily. But when I wrote it I thought it would be a good one for Friday, mainly since it was a SNES style tune. (IDK why b...

Healer #195 Forest

Happy Friday Party Members!

Another request fulfillment today! I've done some Secret of Mana style music in the past, (I mean how could I not, that OST is so iconic) but it never hurts to do more of this style. :D

This one took a bit of brainstorming on the arrangement too. There are some quirky chord movements in the original that I wanted to replicate, but I also wanted this song to have its own identity. So after getting some base sections down I started moving them around, tra...

Warrior #176 Battle

Happy Tuesday Party Members!

Today's tune is a Xenogears inspired battle theme, and it's a doozy!

I've been tinkering with this one for about a week now. I had a few sections come to me but the arrangement felt weird for a while. I had to break things apart and reshuffle a few times to finally get the flow to feel right.

Orchestral stuff can be a bit tricky. I feel like it's not my strong point but it could be that I'm comparing my sample/synth based tracks to live re...

Healer #194 Game Over

Happy Friday Party Members!

I thought I'd continue my theme from last week and give you guys a jingle. Basically every game has one...the game over jingle.

Also continuing my theme from last week, I included a few variations on the theme, so you've got an 8-bit, a 16-bit and a 32-bit version. I've also got 2 piano versions for ya this time around, one of which strays pretty heavily from the motif of the others.

Anyway, I know this isn't a "full blown song" necessarily, but ...

Warrior #175 Dungeon

Happy Tuesday Party Members!

So I initially had a different track in mind for today. The original track has been a long time coming (sorry buddy!). While working on it yesterday, I made progress but lost a bit of steam on it early in the day....Orchestral stuff is hard.

So I shifted gears (pre-emptive pun intended), and went in a new direction. I took some inspiration from a Xenogears track (ohh now the pun makes sense) and came up with this fun little dungeon tune. It's got a nic...