Game Music Composition: Angry Bots Project

Our new assignment this week is composing the music for a game called Angry Bots, and I may have had a little too much fun with it. We were to go with a really kind of industrial feel (and for good reason; look at the space we're in), and give things a really gritty feel. I may have gone too far, but I really like how it sounds so I'm going to roll with it until I get some feedback from my instructor and peers. 

We were to create a 1-2 minute ambient loop that would be played when we weren't battling the bots. Then we had to do an 8-bar loop for each of the bots, giving them each a unique melody and feel so that you know which bot you're fighting. There are also three stingers that play when each of the robots' themes start. Can you differentiate each of the bots' themes?



Lennon
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Bachelor of Science, Music Production

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Game Music Composition: 2dPlatformer Project

A new month means a new class! I'm a few months out from graduation and it's slowly starting to hit me. 

This month I'm taking Game Music Composition. I'm not a huge gamer, but I was when I was younger. I'm open to everything music related and the game industry is an $80 billion industry. Wow! Not only that, but writing music for games requires different techniques than writing for a radio spot, commercial for TV, or any other form of media, specifically writing music that loops seamlessly. 

Our first assignment was to write music for an arcade game called 2dPlatformer. It was built by Unity Games to showcase their set of game development tools, appropriately called the Unity game engine. The game has a bit of a ridiculous concept, but that's the fun in games: You can be creative! The aliens have attacked and you are the hero, a bean with a bazooka. Destroy as many aliens as you can while racking up the points. Along the way you can find health pickups and bombs to help you out. 


Game Music Composition: Project 1: 2dPlatformer from Lennon Cihak on Vimeo.

The music you hear in this game was composed by me. You will hear a variation of three, 2-bar introduction loops (before the game starts), three, 8-bar main music loops (during gameplay), and three, 2-bar ending loops (when you die). The picture below shows you what my session looks like. 

I have my intro loops in blue, main loops in purple, and the ending loops in pinkish/red. 

I haven't reached out for feedback from my instructor, so this could be entirely wrong. However, it is my project and I do like how everything turned out. Stay tuned for a revision during this week. 

Lennon
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Bachelor of Science, Music Production

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