Author: Taro Omiya
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#WeeklyGameMusic: Title Theme (Orchestral Arrangement) (Ib)
#WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. Welp, I’m in the mood for a RPGMaker horror game. Here’s a pretty darn good one, with a simple but moving narrative, forgiving horror mechanic, and very likable characters. KaRASU’s rearrangement of kouri’s Title Theme does a great justice to Ib‘s use of juvenile perspective to increase its creepiness factor. Welcome to Ib‘s mystical art…
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#WeeklyGameMusic: Fungi Forest (Donkey Kong 64)
#WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. http://youtu.be/PCT4tf_E-C4 Do you hear that? Yup, I’m late again. Anyway, this week’s music is a nice and pleasant composition from Donkey Kong 64, written by the infamous Grant Kirkhope. While Grant is more known for his jaunty, bouncy compositions, Fungi Forest is a tame music more focused on silence. A soothing…
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Chrono Trigger first impression
So now that I’ve played several hours on Chrono Trigger, I think it’s about time I write down my first impressions of the game. They say the first few minutes is the most important part of the game, but I’ve always preferred a great journey over a five minute spectacle. Anyways, I figured it’d be interesting to jot down…
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#WeeklyGameMusic: Forest (iBlast Moki 2)
#WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. Good ol’ Romain “Ninomojo” Gauthier has yet another beautiful mobile game music, this time for an adorable puzzle game called iBlast Moki 2. As the score’s title implies, Forest depicts a tone fitting of…well, actually, anything that’s happy. Anyway, brew that hot cocoa of yours, sit back in that comfy…
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Predicting the future (because I’m, bored)
When you’re devoting much of your time on stuff like independent game development, it’s very easy to have a myopic view of the world. So to relax a bit from being an insignificant indie gamedev, I’m going to try thinking of something else besides video games. By predicting the future…very poorly and insignificantly. Niches will…
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#WeeklyGameMusic: Sync (Fez)
#WeeklyGameMusic: New week, new music. Do you feel the beat? Yes, that one. Careful, don’t skip that one. You don’t want to fall off of those disappearing platforms! Great, now keep the rhythm. Now we’re all in Sync, a piece by Disasterpeace from the mind-bending game, Fez. Fez is a fairly simple puzzle-platformer with a…