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Warrior #174 Lost

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Ok sooo I know I normally don't do a bunch of horror music until October, but I was messing with some new sound design methods yesterday and this popped out. To be fair, it doesn't have to be applied in a horror setting. It's just a very downtrodden kind of song. Plus the main atmospheric pa...

Healer #192 Library

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Today's song is an oldie...well it's an oldie where I come from. Ye oldie style that is.

Was playing guitar the other day and I came up with the main idea for this tune. Really the whole progression just fell into place. I went for a less is more approach and just added a simple melody ...

Warrior #173 Eclipse

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Hey did you guys know there was an eclipse yesterday? I've barely heard anyone mention it...

My workday/workflow got slightly interrupted yesterday because of all the hubbub. I actually forgot that it was happening until yesterday morning, so I was ill prepared. I worked on a few ideas...

Saturday Surprise - My First Patreon Video!

Hey! I'll keep the summary brief since it's all in the vid.

...ok that should be good!

But uh yeah give it a watch and let me know whatchu think!

-Bert

Healer #191 Wrestling - SNES style

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Yesterday I got a suggestion for some 16-bit wrestling scene music. Some of you may not know this, but I've been pretty big into wrestling the past few years. I watched it as a kid, and then stopped watching until 2020 when I got back in to it.

So naturally, getting a request for 16-bit...

Warrior #172 Save

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If you're in my Discord, you may have seen my message yesterday about it being a "tough writing day." I went through a few ideas early in the morning, but nothing was really sticking. Usually when this happens, 4-5 times I know it's time to dive in to my songs folder to see if I can find som...

Healer #190 Forest Mines

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I'm running late so I gotta keep this post short. This is a cool little forest/mining ditty I came up with the other day. It's got a lot of layers that gradually build up over the song. It's always fun when I can take a simple little idea and stack other simple id...

Warrior #171 Council - Orchestral

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I've been dabbling a bit more into orchestral stuff recently. I know I've released quite a few orchestral tunes in the past, but I've never really felt like it was one of my strongest genres. So I figure, the only way to get better is to just keep doing it, regardless of if I think I'm good ...

Healer #189 Inventory

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Today's tune is short and simple, but it's effective. There's something about muffled, slow backbeats that just resonate with me. :D

I called it taking inventory, because it feels like one of those tunes that would play in a ps1 survival horror, where you are recapping the plot, or you'...

Warrior #170 Coastal - Travel Theme

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I was toying with a couple of ideas yesterday morning, when I saw Hikitsune Red post in Discord my updated song count. He's got things categorized like Battle, Dungeon, Town, Event and Travel. 

Well the number of travel songs I've done was lowest, sitting at only 38, so I thought ...

Healer #188 Platformer

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I only have a couple of minutes to write this so I gotta make this one short.

I had an idea in mind for today but I put it on hold because I just wasn't feeling it, and it wasn't finished. So I started from scratch yesterday afternoon and came up with this cool little groove.

It r...

Warrior #169 Mystical

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I had a couple of candidates for today's tune, but I felt like this track was the stronger choice of the two.  It's got that mystical forest vibe...Idk what it is about harps but they always do that to me lol.

I thought I would call it "Questionable Paths" to lean into that, but a...

Healer #187 Grove

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For today's tune I was aiming for that PS1 vibe again. I always come back to that really, it's my favorite era of gaming after all. It's an earthy, atmospheric tune. Obviously could be used in dungeons but could also find its way into an overworld or village section, if done right. Listening ...

Warrior #168 Space

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Today's tune is giving me title screen vibes for a dramatic space game. It's a bit of a slow starter but really layers up quite a bit in the latter half. It's almost 3 minutes though, which is a bit overkill for a title screen track, so it could definitely be used in a more prominent spot in...

Healer #189 Battle - Perilous Tower

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What started off as a slow trotting, holy chapel style song, became an upbeat, 90's action tune. I knew I wanted to do something based around a choir at the start of this. So I set my tempo and came up with a choir line. But as I developed the tune, I started wondering how it would sound if I...

Warrior #167 Ether

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Yesterday I had to say goodbye to a loved one. I don't really want to go into details but yesterday afternoon I got to go and visit her one last time. I knew it was coming so the writing session yesterday was...well it was a bit hard to focus. 

I just wanted to do something calm a...

Healer #185 Factory

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So I got a new virtual instrument pack the other day. It's a bunch of augmented/modified piano patches that sound really cool. I was messing around with that and found a couple that sounded like there was machines working in the background. I really liked the vibes it gave and instantly...

Warrior #166 Villain - False Deity

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Time to face the BIG BAD! Or at least head through his castle...or maybe watch a cutscene with them in it. Idk you get the point.

This track actually has some call back elements to "Warrior 112 Epic Battle," so the two could work well together I think. I didn't set out to do this inten...

Healer #184 Memory - Flashback Scene

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Got a simple but effective tune for ya today. I was looking through my songs folder yesterday and found a file called "Very cool piano in 5." Well I gave it a listen and the title wasn't wrong lol. It was just a short little riff so I extended it out a bit and added the string swells at the e...

Warrior #165 Rain

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Yesterday was a rainy day. And not like, "Oh it sprinkled a little bit and now it's just a little misty out," I mean it was RAINING heavy basically all day.

Not gonna lie, I love days like that.

They suck when you to go out and about in them, but when you can stay at home and jus...

Healer #183 Forgotten - Ancient Garden

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Oh man I'm excited to share this one. I've been going for vibes recently and I think this ones got it. Ancient forgotten grounds/temple/garden vibes. It's really atmospheric (thanks reverb!) and I think it would work great in a variety of styles of games. RPG, Adventure, Metroidvania...heck e...

Warrior #164 Dungeon - Hidden Mines

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I'm keeping with my recent trend on this one. I've been leaning into a songs atmosphere, rather than focusing on elaborate melodies and chord progressions. Seems like this approach has been enjoyable for you guys so I'm just rolling with it.

I think this approach ca...

Healer #182 Sci-Fi - Identity Crisis?

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I really like how today's song turned out. It's a bit different than what I've been doing for a while. Which is the best segue I can think of right now...

A lot of tracks I've done have been attempts at mimicking other great songs. I mean, that's really pretty common in most creative f...

Warrior #163 Cyberpunk

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If you saw my post in Discord yesterday, then you already know that this is the most 80s song I've ever written. Well, actually it's more like...what the 80s thought the 2000s was going to be like, if that makes sense. It may not sound like it right at the start but stick with it, that 80s f...

Healer #181 - Ancient Grounds

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There's been a couple of instances I've noticed recently while gaming, where the music for a section was just drums. It's not the first time I've heard this obviously, but it kind of stuck out to me the other day. One instance was playing Hollow Knight, at the Colosseum...The other w...

Warrior #162 Down

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Yesterday as I was trying to finish a song, I kept jumping back and forth between ideas. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I kept coming back to this one. It's got that Parasite Eve energy again (something about the drums with a low pass filter just does that, in my mind). S...

Healer 180 #Shop

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Welp, I had what I think is a first happen to me this week. I had a different song together for you guys, but for whatever reason, the file became corrupted. (I'm really not sure what went wrong). This is a bit disheartening, because it was shaping up into something pretty cool. ...

Warrior #161 Atmosphere

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This was a cool track that kind of just fell together. Found a cool groove and layered in a few elements on top and bam! Got ourselves a tune with a pretty cool vibe.

It was my monthly reminder that sometimes less is more. I had the song basically together as it is now, and kept trying...

Healer #179 - Save - The Journey So Far

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Whelp, I made it around the sun once again. That makes it 36 times now. I'm getting pretty good at it, if I do say so myself.

In light of that, I thought doing something like a save/load screen theme could be fun! I actually had something else ready to go and decided to hold off on it, ...