i wrote a piece of music about what happens when you interact with this woman of stone in about an hour

the music that plays when nothing is happening is the most important music in your game. it's on for hours. it becomes the world itself

Having a strong regional identity for different regions and peoples of a game, probably even more than having it match the biome. If the music for various cities and places could be swapped without anyone noticing, maybe it should be more distinctive, weird or some defining factor

Eric Heberling, not the other guy btw

i just secured an internship with the elder scrolls series' original composer :)

its out now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8meB...
open.spotify.com/album/6cNqLw...
bentheduelist.bandcamp.com/album/ancien...

Ive been working on a soundtrack concept for the Elder Scrolls VI for half a year now, itll come out in 2 days

worldbuilding is so overrated. if a story has great characters and character arcs, i'll take the shittiest worldbuilding you can give me. idgaf about lore if it doesn't make me care about your characters

i love worldbuilding and this is so real. way too much happening in the background and an emotionally unmoving story will kill a story no matter how realistically detailed the planet is, or how scientifically systematic the magic system is

what a beautiful kitty! i hope he recovers well

more fantasy music should borrow from jazz, not for complexity,nor in a surface-level way, but because theres colors in jazz and the blues that just havent been explored yet by rpgs

i wanna be friends with the mick on discord

not to brag but i did this in my head when i was 9

i do love a good open world game though

with the advent of open world games, there was a reversal where the world was huge, but everything in it is so literal it doesnt strike the imagination as much

one of the miracles of old games is how little they told you and how big that became in your mind
a few notes of music, some pixels of a foggy coastline, and your imagination was doing most of the worldbuilding

pixel souls demastered is pretty cool! heres an edit i made to my arrangement of a dungeon theme from daggerfall

this artist @chirunax.bsky.social, inspired me to write some music about the dichotomy between these two pieces, written in about 1.5 hours

Artists, show your range ✨

early 3D rpg music really said “you are alone in a world that barely renders correctly” and somehow that hit the same a full orchestra

Elder Scrolls Arrangements/Compositions - YouTube

ive started a project reorchestrating daggerfall themes as if they were in later elder scrolls games like morrowind and skyrim. some specific songs have gotten a lot of traction but you can check out the full suite here:

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

these are completely free to use in any elder scrolls related videos, mods with credit of course!

Elder Scrolls Arrangements/Compositions - YouTube

ive started a project reorchestrating daggerfall themes as if they were in later elder scrolls games like morrowind and skyrim. some specific songs have gotten a lot of traction but you can check out the full suite here:

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Will do river

@goddhoward please

very happy the elder scrolls vi wont be using any generative ai

The Concept of Time and Perseverance, by BenTheDuelist from the album The Concept of Time and Perseverance

you can find my new song that has a LIVE 24 piece band on bandcamp, we got a full jazz band, 2 guitarists, extra keyboard, featured singer, background vocals, and a string quartet, listen here:
bentheduelist.bandcamp.com/track/the-co...

some pieces of music are less like stories and more like weather

save files are such a cool artifact
entire worlds waiting in suspended time for you to press continue