The atmosphere of our indie game in about 20 seconds

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Hi, everyone

Been a while since we've posted, but we've been at work all the while on new areas, new bosses, new BGM and new everything.

Here's one of the new areas we're currently working on, code name: The Cathedral

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Seems like dreaming up melodies is a common thing for a lot of people. Not me though. I've, exactly once in my life, heard an original melody in a dream, and it's the main piano part

Hey guys

I'm a VGM composer and co-developer of the Metroidvania Ghost Hand

I mainly do music for platformers and jRPGs. I'm not actively looking for new projects, but still generally like connecting with artists/developers I have good chemistry with, so feel free to reach out

The Ghost Hand OST so far is pretty diverse

I've wanted to write a real shitkicker for the game since I have the equipment now to record my own guitar parts, but no opportunities to organically do so came up until the boss this track matches to was conceived

Ghost Hand demo will be out tomorrow (Feb 24) at 10am PST for Steam Next Fest

store.steampowered.com/app/2563880/...

What makes VGM a great musical tradition is there's no — at least it's best when there isn't — an established canon of dos, don'ts and rules

Which is to say, thinking too hard about how to make VGM sound like VGM undermines the strength of VGM

Sketch of the Beetlebub/Beelzebug theme for Ghost Hand

One of my fav bosses in the game so far, and I thought it'd be cool to line the music up with the boss entrance since it's so dramatic

My composer friend Sam and I are reviving our tradition of making a tier list for our fav games

Tonight we're doing Final Fantasy Mystic Quest:

www.twitch.tv/vermanubis

We've been working on Ghost Hand for a good while now, and it's starting to really come together

I was hired by a team working on a jRPG in late 2022 early in development, and was well into the OST when they scrapped it and went with the genre they'd already launched several titles under, so-called "jRPG survival horror."

So jRPGs weren't too far-flung for them, but SH isn't my musical forte

Map design in Metroidvanias really interests me. On the left here is a plot of Brinstar from Super Metroid and on the right is Cataris from Metroid Dread, and of course I’m gonna explain these and what specifically I mean by “map design”

Ghost Hand has a page here now if anyone wants to see more of it. Hopefully the lead dev, Galo, will be posting some more soon

This is a somewhat-older track I did for a game whose status I don't really know. I wasn't the main composer, just asked to write this track as the theme for the main antagonist: a corviform incarnation of a computer virus, not too different from Sigma

Early draft of a boss theme from Ghost Hand

I write drafts with really lightweight software, so this isn't the final sound quality, just a basic sketch

I also don't know if a Ghost Hand page has made its way over here yet, but @ghosthanddev is the handle... elsewhere *squints*

Here's another Castlevania "fan song" I did some time ago. It's not -for- Shanoa, per se, but the female protags of CV were who I had in mind when writing it

The title "Dextera Domini" means "Right Hand of God" in reference to a motif in medieval Christian art

I don't think I've ever come across a Castlevania fan in public, because I've had this shirt for a very long time, and have never gotten a comment on it

When that day comes though, it'll be... neat

This is an early version of a track from a game whose soundtrack I'm working on atm called Ghost Hand. You can check it out at @ghosthanddev on Twitter.

This is a Castlevania fan song I made a few years ago for a foggy forest, like Misty Forest Road from Order of Ecclesia or Forest of Monsters from CV IV