Well, I'm glad we're a true load screen-positive outfit

Floex is still one of my biggest inspirations when I'm doing game soundtracks.

Yeah, have wanted to migrate my stuff several times but a lot of the exclusive distribution platforms I was interested in closed entry, and the normal alternatives sound just as bad.

This is probably happening to every musician you know who distributes their stuff to YouTube and has a lot of people listening there. As far as I can tell, it's universally reported. So when I said "buy albums if you can", that is in general.

I'm trying to do that thing where you post to complain about a boss being really hard and then beat it immediately afterward, but for finances. I'll be refreshing the Distrokid banking tab.

YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.

What if I just went ahead and did this now, actually

It's Bandcamp Friday and I'm so proud of this album. I think it's one of the best things I've made, and this is a great day to pick it up or just listen for free. Thank you for your support!

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

I'm so sorry.

Mutazione has a wonderful one, though I believe it's point-and-click and you're not directly controlling the character. Planet of Lana has a really nice one that's briefly accessible.

I think it's great that devs can go with different musicians across their development careers and introduce new colors to the work. But boy, it sure would be great for composer morale and institutional knowledge if there was such a thing as in-house sound teams again.

I think you would have to be doing a couple full soundtracks a year to survive off game music alone, and besides that opportunity only existing for very few composers, that's also a brutal hustle. I have to switch it up and have a few lanes. Bottom line is most of us virtually have at least 3 jobs.

Good article. For my part, I've never been able to survive on game work alone, from 2013 to now. It's always been the side thing. Everyone I work with is great and we're trying to do the best for each other. I often rely on people wanting to repeat work with me cuz new opps are slim.

Bitwarden is really fussy and bad with auto-filling/popping up as a suggestion when you hit a login page. It is also very fiddly when you have to make a new login and generate a pw. It feels like it complicates my life rather than making logging in seamless.