Foreword
If you’ve read my Oct ‘23 ramble, I Made A Game, I partook in a course called Game Design & Development 1. We had to make two games — one individually and another one in a group. The output of the individual effort is in the aforementioned ramble; the output of the group work is this page.
We made Blob: https://roehrichamapparat.itch.io/blob.
Music found below at: The Music.
Blob
Four of us — Ben, David, John, and I — worked on this game for over a few months and despite our lack of gamedev experience, I’m pretty happy how it turned out! It’s no AAA game (those are… “not great” these days anyway), but it’s quite fun in my very unbiased opinion.
Here are a few screenshots of the game:
Blob in the Viking era.
Blob in the Steampunk era.
I worked as the game code architect, integration architect, (some) sprites designer, and music maker. This post is about the music.
The Music Making Process
I borrowed a Nektar Impact LX25+ Midi keyboard from my friend, Adam, to try some things. I know how to play the piano (see My Favorite Indie Band Uploaded A Story About Me) but I never really dabbled in making music.
The Nektar Impact LX25+ midi keyboard I used
I downloaded the free trial version of FL Studio and followed an excellent YouTube series by In The Mix to get started. And whaddaya know — I believe that I was able to make some pretty decent music. You can play the game to experience it yourself, or you can play it here.
The Music
LICENSED UNDER CC BY-NC-SA 4.0:
The three pieces of audio in this section are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Read the whole license if you wish to use it. If you use the audio for any purpose, please attribute it this way:
Creator: Sudheendra Raghav Neela
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Link: https://snee.la/posts/i-made-music-for-a-game/
The album art below was made by Brinda Neela and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Read the whole license if you wish to use it. If you use the image for any purpose, please attribute it this way (with BOTH links):
Creator: Brinda Neela
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Link: https://brindaneela.com
Link: https://snee.la/posts/i-made-music-for-a-game/
Album Art: The Coffee Biscuits Of Time
These three audio clips and album art are very compressed to save on bandwidth costs. If you would like higher quality MP3 files, WAV files (for audio) or JPG file (for album art), send me an email.
— Intro: The Coffee Biscuits Of Time
— Loop: The Experimental Loopy Coffee Biscuits Of Time
— End: The Coffee Biscuits At The End Of Time
Ending Thoughts
Please play the game; it is genuinely very fun. The upgrade system (you’ll see it after one round) has been very well made by Ben and it’s received a lot of appreciation from friends & video game enthusiasts. As far as I know, Ben still plans to work on the game and thus, there may be some changes to the game since I worked on it last.
If you would like to hire me as a music maker, please reconsider your decision.