Looking to contribute to a project with music and more! (Not looking for money, doing it for the sake of art)

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Hello, hope anyone who reads this is well whether or not you’re interested enough to reply.

I’m looking to contribute songs and make songs for a game project. Some of the songs I make are pretty simple, some more complex. About 90% of what I’ve made just ferments in my hard-drive so I wanted to try to do something with the songs I make. They tend to sound very video gamey.

I’m not looking for money, fame, accolades, or whatever. I just want to contribute to a project that’s greater than what I can do alone. I do other kinds of art but I’m not gonna bog people down with that. Hopefully this website allows youtube videos, but if these interest any of you send me a message or add me on Discord at Delrin777 so thank you and take care!

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While I don’t have anything that needs music at the moment, I will just straight up be listening to your songs on your channel now because I really like Kara Karrots for some unknown reason.

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Ah well thank you! I’m glad that song interests you, I enjoy talking with people more than just having “internet number go up” so the time you took to make a comment was very appreciated by me. Sometimes the internet feels like a big void.

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When you say they sound very video game like, you are absolutely correct! The majority of them feel like background music to a certain area/biome. Something that would play each and every time you enter the place. However they manage to hit this nice spot where, you just don’t mind them playing over and over again. In fact, I have Club Trojan looping in another tab right now!

But even still, I want to say you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone here that will use your music for anything here. Almost every song sound like it would fit right in to a pixel art game, e.g. Stardew Valley. However, they I just can’t see them fitting in anything else that doesn’t have a visual aspect. ChoiceScript is just text. Well, it caaann do images..but, I’m not gonna count that.

(I’m going to assume you know how ChoiceScript works, I can explain if you don’t.)

*sound is the only native way to play any sound at all and it only allows short sound effects, not long music. To do so, you would have to change to very files of the script and use JavaScript IN you’re Choicescript, which a big no go as CoG can not sell a game that uses anything but ChoiceScript.

What I’m trying to say is: Not to be rude, but no one here can use your music on their game. Which is sad because I quite like it!

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To add on to,

For instance, The Self You Will Never Be makes me feel reflective. As if, I woke in the middle of the night and saw all of my life’s choices, had a conversation with who I am, and who I could be, if I made different decisions. While this, normally, would actually be quite terrible, as I think I would just see only mistakes and failures, the song manages to have a gentle undertone that lifts it forward and makes it feel like this reflection is positive, and therefore makes it positive because of the strange feeling that something that sounds positive should be a good thing.

So the reason I say your music only really fits with visuals, is because without constructing the visual I have in my head right now, I very well could have had a wildly different interpretation. I know the interpretation I have is different than the one originally intended.

Visuals bridge that gap.

When I hear FFXIII’s (Final Fantasy 13) Blinded by Light I have an immediate understanding that this sound, is the sound of freedom. Freedom through great trial and tribulation. Because I have the connection of every time I’ve seen Light take that step forward towards darkness, and snuff it out. It is, by extension, Lightning’s second theme as it by far, plays the most with Lightning as the lead character. Her actual theme, Lightning’s Theme has the most recognizable part of Blinded by Light right near the center! Now, you might ask, ‘Why does that matter?’ It matters because, Blinded by Light can only play in combat. To have the middle of someone’s song, a song that is supposed to be the audible definition of a character, be that of a fight song, implies that Light views her very life as a fight. Or that, by having it only play near the center before fading away, that this period of her life is a just one great combat against finding her happiness.

That is what I think.

But it is also what I am supposed to think. The game’s sound and visual design makes it so you will think this is the correct answer, and by playing the game you realize that it is the correct answer.

TLDR:

You have talent. A lot, of bloody talent. You made me pull a topic that might be worth making an essay for just because your song sounded good. I really hope someone does use your work someday, but even more than that, I hope YOU use your work someday. I want to see what the real vision for this soundscape you’ve made was.

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Ah, well that’s my mistake. I was just trying to find a general game development forum but the other one I found was dead. So I’ll chalk this up to my own ignorance and not taking time to properly figure out what Choice of games was.

But despite that mistake it was nice to have a conversation with someone, there’s positives in mistakes when we look for them!

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Hi! I’m sorry all my comments need to be approved because my account is new or something, my last comment was made an hour ago and still not approved. Hopefully the replies get approved soon.

Your interpretation isn’t far off to what the song was intended to mean. The CompuZone songs were a whole concept album about a comic or animation I never made because my art and creative projects tend not to interest people. Though I should make art for the joy of making it, it’s hard to know what to feel when you don’t even get hate feedback. Just nothing, made me feel like my ideas, art, and so on weren’t worth doing forward with because CompuZone and most of my art is about helping people think about character traits and behaviors in a way that make people aware of how we treat each other.

Each song in CompuZone was a scene or moment, “The self you will never be” was first called “Please pick an avatar” it was about how we use avatars or a personality mask to twist or just reinvent who we are to who we think we should be in order to be accepted. So you weren’t far off, kudos!

The world is very cold and rough right now, I tend to not share what I make because people don’t have interest. One time a person just reacted to the Lava++ song I took a moment to share in a discord with a trashbin emoji, it hurt me and I wish I knew why they thought it was bad enough to be thrown away. I don’t think my songs and art are amazing, I often compare myself to better people a lot to my own dismay. Overall I love people and hope we all can recover from this really bag plague of cold negativity that’s infected us all.

I appreciate you taking the time to talk with me as a person, it’s rare and that quality of you hasn’t gone unnoticed. Sorry that I prattled on about myself mostly.

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I’ve been listening to your whole channel for the past several hours. I’ve listened to every one of your songs, more than once. Except, Lava++. Trying to come up with a reason for it, I really can’t. It is, good. It’s..different.

Too different.

Every song you have has something to it, something that makes you want juuust a little more, so you listen again, and you feel that way about wanting more, again. So…you keep doing that until you feel you’ve had enough, and then swap to another song that does the same to you.

Lava++ does not do that.

It’s enough the first time. It’s a complete song. It needs no encore, no second listen to truly feel what it was, you just know. What I think does the most for AND against it as a song, is that you don’t feel like you’re listening to the same artist? I guess? It’s hard to put it in words, but it does several things that none of your other songs seem to do. It’s enough, the first time.

I don’t know the reason that person would want to throw it away, I don’t. But I do know, why I wouldn’t listen again: It’s enough. I don’t say this negatively, but it’s plain. It’s not bad in any real way, but I can’t for the life of me say, ‘That was a really good listen!’ Instead I think, ‘Mhm, that slight change at the start of minute two pulled it together. Now let’s hear KitKilo again!’

If I had to describe Lava++ in a game way, it’d be the final boss. You only ever get to hear it once: When you’re done with the game.

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Thank you for taking the time to listen to some of my little songs, it means a lot to me. I’m not really used to this kind of reaction to what I make but I appreciate that you’ve taken the time to say all this.

The songs just tend to turn out how they do, I have a hard time going “I’m going to make this certain type of song” and then it turns out as intended. The songs just kind of turn into what they are from experimenting with note patterns and different instruments. Sometimes people have told me “this has good chord progression” but I’m not well versed in music theory. It’s odd how I make music, but I’m glad they are somewhat listenable.

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