Hi!

I put out a new song today, and I figured I'd use this chance to promote that, plus talk about some other random stuff I've been thinking about.

First off, my chiptune kick is continuing along, in no small part thanks to Fearofdark. This guy is so unbelievably cracked at chiptune that it makes me want to start up FamiTracker every time I listen to his songs. "There'll Always Be Next Year" is for sure my favorite right now. I've pretty much made it my end goal to make a song on that level in literally any capacity. Take a listen to see what I mean. I also need to find some more chiptune artists, because it's probably not healthy for him to be my only influence in this field lol.

Secondly: I got scouted in the Audio Portal! (Thanks @offi-DtrGuo-cial!) I was really excited when that happened, because now it feels like I'm officially a Musical Artist™. Despite the fact that I've been making music for almost 8 months now (!!) it feels like I'm still not really... doing it yet, if you know what I mean. It still sort of feels like I'm just plunking notes into Ableton or FamiTracker and saying "Hey guys! Look at me, I know what I'm doing, I promise!!" I don't know if that feeling will ever go away, but it has been getting better lately as I feel myself improving a lot. Either way, it's pretty cool to not be buried in the Undiscovered section anymore.

(also, I know that scouting is more of a "this person doesn't upload stolen music" label than any kind of marker of quality, but oh well)

Thirdly: I finally listened to Cloudbusting by Kate Bush yesterday. It's not really related to anything I just said, but I've been thinking about it a lot because man it's a good song. It's both unique sounding and impactful, and you should go listen to it right now. I found it through Neil Cicierega's mashup of it and California Gurlz, which is both hilarious and cursed. The Wikipedia article about the guy who inspired the song was certainly something to read about. Highly recommended if you want to go down a bit of a Wikipedia rabbit hole.

Anyway, there's some stuff that I felt like ranting about. Thanks for sitting through it. Have a great rest of your day!

Almost 2 weeks ago I put out a sneak peek of a small VR project I was working on, and it's finally completed! It's called Bowl Party, it has one map, and I've had it on the backburner since February. Being the way that it is, I couldn't put the actual game on here, but I have put the two music tracks up.

I hope that you'll check out the game (assuming you can play it) on itch.io and tell me what you think. It's the first game that I've actually released, which is a pretty big milestone for me. Hopefully whatever game I make next, I can upload it here as a web game.

I feel bad for not posting anything here so here's a video of my new project. This is a conversion of a video that I excitedly sent to a friend after I managed to get the Unity UI slider working in VR. I'm very proud of it, mainly because the debugging was mostly me asking "will this random thing fix the fact that it's breaking in a really weird way?" while really only kind of thinking about the logic, and then it worked. Also VR is just mad cool and I'm glad to make something functional and reusable with it.

Should I have made my first (complete) gamedev project be a VR game? Absolutely not, but it's too late now because I've already committed to getting it done, and I'm hoping to get it finished soon™. I won't be able to upload it here for obvious reasons, but it'll be up on my itch.io page which I haven't used yet, and of course I'm making original music for it, which I'll upload here.

Anyway, hope you're all having a good evening or morning or midnight scroll or whatever it may be.

Hi!

As someone who's pretty new here, I have to say that the concept of Pico Day is pretty amazing, and I'm enjoying all the cool stuff that people are putting out. That said, I didn't have any ideas myself, so I didn't make anything... although, I did make a new song which I'm pretty excited to share with you that happened to be made last night.

I made a short c. 1 minute song called Unstuck Up last night over the course of about an hour and a half, and I'm not really sure why I decided to make it, but at the same time, I'm pretty psyched about the result. Hope you like it!

p.s. I really need to use this account more often, this place is way better than Twitter. lol