HeyJaredMaking My Own Music (Inside Video Game Music)
This is a reissue of my podcast Making My Own Music that ran from 2012 to 2014. Most of the websites, email addresses, and voicemail numbers mentioned have been cancelled. You can find the reissues of this podcast at tomsnively.com/podcast, or email me at tom@tomsnively.com.
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MMOM 027 - RPSwipe (opens the original)
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Originally posted on August 16, 2014 In this episode, I talk about RPSwipe, a mobile game available now for iOS and Android, and the song and sounds I made for the game. RPSwipe is a mobile game written by Amidos, an Egyptian game developer Ahmed Khalifa. It is inspired by the games Threes! and 2048, and uses the rules from Rock, Paper, Scissors. I started by making an audio track from the iOS Musyc app. I moved the track into my Cubase project and added reverb and a ping-pong delay. The track p
MMOM 026 - Indie Quilt Clips (opens the original)
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Originally posted on August 4, 2014 In this episode, I talk about Indie Quilt, an online game jam for charity, and about 15 30-second songs I wrote to be used in the game. My album, Major 7ths and Minor 9ths is available on Bandcamp at tomsnively.bandcamp.com . You can listen to the whole album for free. To download it, click “Buy now, pay what you want” and choose $0 or more to “purchase” the album. I found out about Indie Quilt which is an online game jam organized by Eric Hornby. Developers h
MMOM 025 - I Love Pivvot (opens the original)
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Originally posted on June 12, 2014 In this episode, I talk about a video game, Match Em that I designed, developed and published. I talk about my debut album, Major 7ths and Minor 9ths that I released on Bandcamp. I talk about how I put together and mastered the album. I also talk about my song “I Love Pivvot.” In May I got a bit of a “coding bug” where I was really enjoying doing computer programming, and I created my own video game. It is called Match Em and you can play it at https://tomsnive
MMOM 024 - Voyage (Pivvot OST) (opens the original)
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Originally posted on April 24, 2014 In this episode, I interviewed Whitaker Trebella , a video game composer and game designer in Chicago. We talked about his song Voyage from his game Pivvot . Pivvot is available on iOS and Android, and on Windows, Mac and Linux on Steam . In my interview with Whitaker Trebella, we talked about: Why Whit went from composing game music to making his own games. His game Pivvot, a thrilling game of strategic avoidance. This game was heavily influenced by Super Hex
MMOM 023 - No Time (opens the original)
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Originally posted on April 4, 2014 In this episode, I interviewed Joe Gilder , a songwriter and recording/mixing/mastering engineer in Nashville and host of the Home Studio Corner-Ask Joe podcast. We talked about his song No Time from his first album Out of Indiana . Joe’s main website is a blog called Home Studio Corner where he makes frequent posts about recording, mixing and mastering. He offers a daily email newsletter. He maintains a YouTube channel with training videos. He also has a nice
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