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starling 🦆
@starlingoboe.itch.io
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composer + arranger ☁️ // oboist, woodwinds, cello, keys, (erhu) ✨🍵

vancouver, bc 🇦🇺 | starlingoboe.com
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starling 🦆 @starlingoboe.itch.io · Mar 15
hello! i'm starling, composer for games + media ⭐️ nice to meet you!

i also record oboe + cor anglais, tin whistle, recorder + cello/keys 🎻

RTs appreciated if you like what you hear 🩵
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victoriatran.bsky.social
💵 MONEY for GAME? In 2026??? 💵

There have been more and more successful-game-devs-turned-game-funders popping up, so here's a lil' thread of some of the more recent ones I've seen.

Hopefully this helps you get some $$$! 🔽
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
starlingoboe.itch.io
favourites of 2025~

✦ game: afterlove ep (+ letters to arralla)
✦ film: in the mood for love
✦ tv show: nevertheless (+ the katseye documentary)
✦ book: crying in h mart by michelle zauner
✦ concert: distant worlds (ffxiv and ffxvi)
✦ album: cobalt core ost by aaron cherof
✦ artist: pink pantheress
January 1, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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adriantalens.com
On behalf of the Vancouver Game Audio group, @jamieleesounds.com and I made some free sound effects packs. Enjoy these holiday gifts from us! #sounddesign #gamedev #gameaudio

☄️ Anime Sounds Pack
adriantalens.gumroad.com/l/AnimeSound...

📜 Lore Sound Pack
jamieleesounds.gumroad.com/l/loresoundp...
sound pack art of Anime Sounds Pack (retro scifi anime image with adrian's cat Squidge floating in space) and Lore Sound Pack (image of Lore synthesizer) featuring ugly christmas sweater styled promo image background
December 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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npckc.net
the winter solstice has come once again... it's time to eat tong jyun ⛄

npckc.itch.io/tongjyun
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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nihomi.bsky.social
my #VNSS2025 gift for @starlingoboe.itch.io ft the beautiful bird of reasonable knowledge (and fluffiness) :>
big thanks to @crescence-studio.itch.io for hosting!
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
starlingoboe.itch.io
hemlock 🌿

a fansong for 'at the poison's edge' for @natashaluna.itch.io #VNSS2025 🩸 hosted by @crescence-studio.itch.io

“did you pretend to love me… so that i’d kill you?”

((sorry about my vocals lol 🥲 ))

on.soundcloud.com/NRrXICwnFe1x...
hemlock (a fansong for 'at the poison's edge' #vnss2025)
forested eyes, flowers bloom in your chest i burned inside with searing love for you the fire turns cold what did you do? what did you do? still i wonder, with this effervescent soul waiting for answ
soundcloud.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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thelettergii.bsky.social
Hi #TeaseYaGame!

#SugarplumCafe is a cozy merge game with no time limits or microtransactions!
You can craft desserts and host tea parties for fashionable ladies 🍰🎀✨

It's still early in development, so join my mailing list for monthly updates - 🔗 in bio!
Title art for the game Sugarplum Cafe, with the name in large curly letters. Two ladies, Lady Milk Chocolate and Lady Vanilla, sit at a table having afternoon tea. In the background, they are surrounded by desserts. Screenshot of a game set in a cafe, with a currency counter on the top right and a cameo-shaped UI on the top left. Next to the cameo, some text reads "Collect 6 Cameos." The walls are white with pastel pink and teal color accents and gold filigree. In the foreground, three customers (one wearing vanilla, one wearing chocolate, and one wearing strawberry) have speech bubbles over their heads indicating what desserts they would like to order. In the bottom right corner, there is a grid with some desserts. There is also a display window in the background with more desserts. An elegant tearoom with baby pink curtains and large windows showing a pastel gradient backdrop. In the foreground, three tables with off-white tablecloths seat three pairs of characters, each pair having a tea party. From left to right: Jasmine and Lemon Madeline, Lady Strawberry and Lady Mint, and Lady Lemon and Lady Lime.
December 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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infloresce.com
Snowdrop Festival 2025 is now on YouTube!

Thank you everyone for making this year's event so special 🩵

youtu.be/shn58OkJ4o0
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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tempolab.games
BITS & BOPS IS OUT NOW! 🎶

🎮 Over 20 original rhythm mini-games!
🎵 Catchy music!
⚡ Snappy gameplay!
✨ Gorgeous 2D animation!

PLAY IT NOW ON STEAM! 💕
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
starlingoboe.itch.io
if you haven't had the chance to watch previous snowdrop festivals, definitely tune in this saturday!! easily one of the most inspiring music / creative events i've attended 🥹🥹 and i'm so honoured to be part of the lineup... so much talent all in one place
infloresce.com Infloresce Records @infloresce.com · Dec 9
— EVENT —

Snowdrop Festival 2025 🌸🔬
Sat, Dec. 13, 1pm Pacific

Our fourth annual virtual music festival, celebrating yet another year of outstanding music and art with friends and our community! 🎶

More info: infloresce.com/snowdrop-festival-2025

Poster by @aggelicyiok.bsky.social + @aiviwave.com
The Snowdrop Festival poster, an illustration of two feminine fairies playfully peering into a petri dish filled with floral microorganisms. Painted text reads, “Infloresce Records presents… Snowdrop Festival. December 13, 2025.” Painted beneath the fairies is a list of 71 musical acts, 9 visual artists, and 7 prose writers.
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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rd.7thbe.at
Rhythm Doctor 1.0 is out NOW on Steam!

🎵 Act 6 and the finale of Story Mode has been added
🎵 5-3N added to Physiotherapy Ward
🎵 The game is now available in French!
🎵 English Audio Descriptions now available for Story Mode!

Have fun!

store.steampowered.com/app/774181/R...
Paige and Ian from Rhythm Doctor jump excitedly, smiling. A collage of different Rhythm Doctor patients floats behind them, in bright blue and violet.
December 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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surasshu.com
PSA!! almost everything that is uploaded to streaming services can be bought from qobuz! unless they SPECIFICALLY excluded it. i buy a ton of kids stuff from there: danny go, ms. rachel, super simple songs... amazon music also often sells the mp3s. (but qobuz sells flacs and pays artists better)
insertdisc5.com adrienne ✨ Truth Scrapper @insertdisc5.com · Dec 5
i buy songs on bandcamp when im able but My God i sure wish kinda-big-artists would start selling their songs Anywhere. the number of artists that have their songs listed on ONLY spotify/youtube/apple music is sad. let me buy your songs!!!!!!!!
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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cinnadev.bsky.social
There's just one day left in Delphinium's Kickstarter campaign, so now is your last chance to back the game!

Thank you all so much for getting us to more than 200% FUNDED!! 🩵 🩵

#gamedev #indiedev
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
starlingoboe.itch.io
the best vital presets, their functionality cannot be underestimated, a service and boon to our community, the pillars that hold up our soundscapes and irregular time signatures, there is no ceiling to their peak
tancla.dog Tancla @tancla.dog · Nov 24
OKAY they're OUT ✨🎉

~ 5 Years of Vital ~

175+ FREE presets counting just the new ones, adding the rest there's a total of 470!!

Hope you like them and make cool stuff with them :)

🔽🔽 Links below 🔽🔽
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
starlingoboe.itch.io
academic rivals to lovers trope ... a list of my faves

- kare kano (anime)
- kaichou wa maid sama (anime)
- kaguya-sama love is war (anime)

- butterfly soup 2 (game)

- i hope this doesn't find you by ann liang (book)
- love, theoretically by ali hazelwood (book)
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
starlingoboe.itch.io
i want plushie...
sunsetvisitor.studio 1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · Nov 20
there's just ONE WEEK left to order our adorable and only semi-murderous Watcher plushie... so let's do a ✨ giveaway ✨

to enter, just follow @makeship.bsky.social and @sunsetvisitor.studio and repost this post!

the giveaway ends in 2 days! hekki grace and good luck!!
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
starlingoboe.itch.io
visited a bunny cafe yesterday!! this bun had one ear up, one down 🥹
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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endysis.bsky.social
A noble lord brings two squires along on a hunt. One is a gentle boy who should not exist. 🌟

The other is a girl who dreams of plunging a dagger into her master’s heart. 🗡️

Trail of Stars, my short, (bitter)sweet fairy tale visual novel, is out on steam! 🌟

store.steampowered.com/app/4006140/...
Cover art for Trail of Stars showing the two squires sitting back to back looking up at the sky. Screenshot of two figures on horseback silhouetted in the woods. The artstyle is paper cut out and storybook inspired. "They trotted along behind the main party, she on a chestnut stallion, he on a white mare." Screenshot of a starry sky with a half moon and foliage framing the screen. "The magic of the woods had run dry; the boughs no longer sheltered them with their sanctuary." Screenshot of cropped artwork of the girl running while the boy reaches for her hand. "The way he always did when she was sick or afraid."
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
starlingoboe.itch.io
that one cellist practising elgar concerto passionately, soloistically during your chinese orchestra rehearsal break
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
starlingoboe.itch.io
🥹🤩!!!! thank you to everyone who backed our kickstarter so far... funded already.... i'm cry
cinnadev.bsky.social Delphinium 💙 Live on Kickstarter! @cinnadev.bsky.social · Oct 29
Delphinium is FUNDED in less than 72 hours!

Thank you all so, so, SO MUCH 🥹🩵
October 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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halfasleep.games
Excited to be part of the #GamesUnder5Hours event happening on Steam. There are some amazing games participating so be sure to check it out!

store.steampowered.com/publisher/De...
The Games Under 5 Hours Event Is Live! 🎮
October 13–27: Looking for something you can actually finish? Explore a curated selection of extraordinary short games that prove great experiences don’t need endless hours.
store.steampowered.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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cinnadev.bsky.social
the best part of the Kickstarter campaign: getting to share more of Starling's incredible music!!! 🎵
starlingoboe.itch.io starling 🦆 @starlingoboe.itch.io · Oct 27
if you click on the kickstarter you can also listen to four full new tracks from me, written for the game 🌱 i have been pouring my heart into this soundtrack over the past year and i'm so excited to finally share some of it! 🥹

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cin...

soundcloud.com/starlingoboe...
Delphinium OST - Teaser Collection
Delphinium: a bittersweet cozy farming sim in which cultivating connections with those around you matters just as much as growing crops- sometimes even more so. (Developed by CinnaDev) Kickstarter: h
soundcloud.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
starlingoboe.itch.io
the delphinium kickstarter is now live!! support our small team + glimpse a beautiful world 🫶
cinnadev.bsky.social Delphinium 💙 Live on Kickstarter! @cinnadev.bsky.social · Oct 26
Grow new connections in the middle of nowhere with this bittersweet cozy story. Delphinium is now LIVE on Kickstarter 💙🌿
October 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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sifterhq.bsky.social
“How do we establish our future in a world that doesn’t feel like it’s progressing? The answer is with community.” Will a cottage in the woods really will fix you? @cinnadev.bsky.social 's Delphinium is all about building connections
FEATURE @juiceboxcat.bsky.social www.sifter.com.au/post/delphin...
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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aiviwave.com
time for work/income restraints due to family commitment is something i’ve never heard discussed in my circles of media composers. i suspect it has a lot to do with composers who perform maternal roles in their families being a rarity. i only know two other than me. one had to give up her career.
October 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM