Our music is featured on "Avatar Honor and Duty for Xbox Live Indie Game" for the title and menu screen! Avatar Honor and Duty for XBLIG (World War II Shooter) Title Music : Result Screen : Please let me know what you think!
Ludum Dare 27's results were just posted on their website. Our game "Unseen" is ranked in the Top 25 in Audio (12th place) and Mood (22th place)!! I worked on the music and SFX in the game, and it's an honor for me to see the game getting 12th place in Audio category! You can try the game here : http://www.neo-blue.com/games/unseen/
This past weekend I joined a game jam for Ludum Dare 27! The theme was "10 Seconds". We spent all Friday trying to figure out what kind of game we wanted to create. We came up with nearly 20 ideas for the theme, then narrowed them down. In the end, we finally decided to go with one idea. We made a task list for each person for the day. On Saturday, I worked on the theme music, atmosphere music and sound effects. Also we discussed the overall gameplay and the kinds of endings we'd create. On Sunday, I polished the [...]
Here is the second entry of the Project: Composition! (Rules are here!) Genre / Style : Hip Hop / R&B Situation / Place : Intermission Mood : Mysterious Support Tarot Card : The Tower. Note : I used The Tower card to just simply support the mood "mysterious". Instead of "Crisis", I took the card as "a feeling that something might happen". To reproduce the "mysterious" mood, I used an electric piano sound. Then I added an acoustic piano sound along with some funky synth loops. The result : "Last Call"
Just finished some RPG-themed pieces. Here's the first town music from the set: My Hometown Also, there's a pocket version as well: We're planning to launch a royalty free music store this year and this piece will be a part of an RPG-themed bundle! Updated 11/04/16 : We just launched our Royalty-Free Music Shop, and now these pieces are available for your projects! If you're interested in commissioning a custom track, please let me know by using this form!
Here is the very first entry of the Project: Composition! (Rules are here!) Genre / Style : Techno, Electronica, D&B Situation / Place : House, mansion, person (hero, friend, lover, enemy) or monster's theme Mood : Mad / Distorted / Crazy Support Tarot Card : 5 of Swords - A guy walks away from others. He holds swords and moves forward, leaving people who he stole the swords from behind. Note : Since I pulled "5 of Swords" tarot card, I decided to go with a "person" (Situation / Place). Also, since its mood is "Mad / Distorted / Crazy" I [...]
What's "Project: Composition"? "Project: Composition" is a challenge where I pull random cards from the piles of "Genre / Style", "Situation / Place" and "Mood", combine them, and make music which matches the theme. This project is to push my creativity further as well as just for fun! Here are the rules : 1. Draw three cards from three piles. The piles are as follows : Genre / Style, Situation / place, and Mood. 2. Draw a tarot card to reference for the situation / imagination. 3. Create a piece based on the selected cards. 4. Upload the piece [...]
This is my latest latest music composition, an anime style RPG theme music! This was actually a tough but fun challenge. The first melody (0:15) was the hardest labor out of anything in the song. I tried and dumped many melodies for this part. Eventually the melody came down to me naturally. Melody B (1:00) was more complicated when I started to compose but it ended up being simpler. One of my challenges in this song was to keep the song constantly upbeat. The intro, bridges, and ending were relatively short because of this. Other than [...]
Say your character is walking down in the forest and at first the BGM might be somewhat mellow and slow. Then, enemies show up! As the battle begins, the BGM smoothly becomes more intense and dramatic. After your character defeats the enemies from the ambush, the music slowly fades back to the calm exploration track. All of this happens without any stops or hard transitions in the music track. I think this is a very cool technique to change the mood of the game seamlessly and subtly. I decided to try working on a set of pieces that use this [...]
I went to a concert called "The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses" in San Jose. There were a lot of cosplayers around the entrance. From the very beginning, the concert has its own fun vibe. The hall was quite big, I thought it's too big for an orchestra concert. It was very crowded and there are very few empty seats. There were three big screens on top of the stage, along with two big speakers. The conductor appeared and they started to play Legend of Zelda : Medley. I was worried if the hall was too big for an [...]