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...
2022-07-19 14:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-07-15 14:01:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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 tha...
2022-07-12 14:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 wh...
2022-07-05 13:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-07-01 14:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-06-28 14:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-06-25 16:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 characte...
2022-06-24 15:19:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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. 2022-06-21 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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 li...
2022-06-17 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-06-17 14:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 i...
2022-06-14 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-06-10 13:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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 abo...
2022-06-07 14:01:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-06-03 14:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
T...
2022-05-31 14:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-05-27 14:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 intende...
2022-05-24 14:05:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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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 s...
2022-05-17 14:06:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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 sp...
2022-05-13 14:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Ocari...
2022-05-10 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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 wa...
2022-05-06 14:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-05-03 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 thou...
2022-04-29 17:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-04-26 15:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2022-04-22 14:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 thu...
2022-04-19 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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,
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 son...
2022-04-12 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post