8-Bit RPG Music - Prelude/Prologue ~ by Adam Haynes

Here is some 8-bit music I’ve composed! It’s the start of an 8-bit music series I’m doing, which will involve composing short tracks that fit the classic retro genres, such as RPG, Platformer, Action Adventure, Puzzle, you get the idea.

This first piece is the kind of music you’d hear on the prelude/prologue of an RPG, whether it occurs before or after the main title screen. In my head, I imagined a simple background, perhaps of a castle, with slow scrolling text filling in the player with some story context. A classic way to start an RPG!

I’ve strictly used 4 channels of sound here, to try and keep it as authentic as possible. I didn’t use a tracker, I used the Super Audio Boy VSTi. I love it, but I wish I had picked up Super Audio Cart in the Black Friday sale. Big regrets there. Hopefully it’s on sale again over Christmas!

I’ve stuck my own reverb on it as a personal preference, so it loses some authenticity there. I know that Super Audio Cart has a SNES reverb setting, so if I do end up getting it I’ll use that in future.

(Gameboy artwork made by me, shamelessly and terribly imitated from http://www.milkbun.com/ )

Enjoy :-)

- Adam

Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Music (fan-made) - by Adam Haynes

Hello! This is my second fan-rendition of Animal Crossing music. Much like my first attempt, this is a gentle piece of music to coincide with the calming nature of AC’s gameplay.

> My first Animal Crossing piece

It’s so lovely to see people enjoying Animal Crossing again, everyone’s talking about it on twitter and tumblr, and generally people are having a great time with it! I haven’t actually tried Pocket Camp yet, and I have no idea what the music actually sounds like. Hopefully it’s still as enjoyable as New Leaf’s, which is what I’ve based this composition on.

Please consider liking and subscribing if you enjoyed the music, it would mean the world!

I have created more fan-music/fan-renditions of other game series, please take a look!

Take care :-)

~ Adam

I don’t usually get involved with memes and shitposting, but this is the exception. To be honest I needed a break from the music I’m currently writing; I have so many works in progress my brain feels a bit scattered, so I felt like making something for some silly fun.

Every now and again I do a “quick music-making” exercise, and this was one of them. I managed to put this together in five hours, which I’m pretty happy with. I know it’s pretty sloppy and it’s not that funny, but I had a laugh making it. And I think it’s healthy to not keep your art so serious all the time and just loosen up a bit.

Hope you enjoy it! If anyone wants to make a meme video using my track then by all means do, just give us a credit at the end. :-)

- Adam

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Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Music (fan-made) - by Adam Haynes

With the recent announcement of Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, I wanted to create a piece of music that could fit into the game. 

Back when New Leaf was released on the 3DS, I played it to absolute death (it’s one of the best games ever, right?) and the game’s soundtrack was just so perfect; very quaint, gentle, innocent, non-intrusive music accompanied us and our villagers for hours and hours. These are all the key characteristics I kept in mind when composing this piece of music.

Hope you enjoy it :-)

More of my fan-made music compositions:

Stardew Valley | Hearthstone | Pokémon Sun & Moon | Crash Bandicoot |

- Adam

Celebrate Animal Crossing Pocket Camp’s launch with some fan-made music!

Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Music (fan-made) - by Adam Haynes

With the recent announcement of Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, I wanted to create a piece of music that could fit into the game. 

Back when New Leaf was released on the 3DS, I played it to absolute death (it’s one of the best games ever, right?) and the game’s soundtrack was just so perfect; very quaint, gentle, innocent, non-intrusive music accompanied us and our villagers for hours and hours. These are all the key characteristics I kept in mind when composing this piece of music.

Hope you enjoy it :-)

More of my fan-made music compositions:

Stardew Valley | Hearthstone | Pokémon Sun & Moon | Crash Bandicoot |

- Adam

Hearthstone - Fan-made Music (Hallow’s End themed) ~ by Adam Haynes

Hello! To celebrate the Hallow’s End Hearthstone in-game event I’ve composed a piece of music inspired by this spooky event.

Much like my other two Hearthstone-inspired tracks, I’ve tried to mimic the style of Peter McConnell’s score for the game, as well as adding my own flavour to it. This time I’ve tried to suit it to the Halloween event, making it a little spooky and featuring a guest appearance by the Headless Horseman himself!

I originally intended this to be bgm for the game board, but decided to have a bit of fun with it and make it somewhat of a spectacle, as it’s Halloween and all.

Hope you enjoy this one! :-D

Other Hearthstone music pieces:

Knights of the Frozen Throne: https://youtu.be/OwObiJtDpoY
Un'Goro: https://youtu.be/peR3j_s3Tl0

Un'Goro Rap Remix: https://youtu.be/1fW3P1S23dY
Arthas Rap Remix: https://youtu.be/bhttKTR4R_s

- Adam

Hearthstone - Fan-made Music (KotFT themed) ~ by Adam Haynes

Here is a piece of original music I composed, inspired by Peter McConnell’s soundtrack for Hearthstone!

I very much had the theme of the newest expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne, in mind for this piece. The music we hear on the game board as we play tends to suit the expansion/card set in which it was released. For instance, the board for the Blackrock Mountain adventure has a very “underground” sound, with the anvil-like percussion and deep aggressive woodwind; One Night in Karazhan featured a disco-like tone to the music, whilst retaining that feeling of being in the Inn playing cards. I decided to continue this approach with my music, trying to replicate that feel of this new expansion’s theme along with the familiar sound of Hearthstone’s whimsical score. (I realise KFT has its own music already, but I wanted to attempt my own take on it! ;) )

For my KFT-inspired piece I tried to give it a sense of foreboding and menace to represent the Lich King himself, as well as bringing in influences from the Northrend region. The original Wrath of the Lich King has an outstanding soundtrack, and I just had to incorporate some uilleann pipes into my piece just as WotLK’s music did. This should really give a sense of the cold, mountainous landscapes that we are all familiar with. Of course, it still needs to sound like a jaunty little piece being played by a band in an Inn filled with drunken card-players, as that’s what Hearthstone’s music tends to encompass.

Oh, and can you recognise the opening motif? ;-)

Hope you enjoy this one!

- Adam

Sprout Tower Remix / Arrangement - Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal

This is the third remix in my Pokémon Gold & Silver music arrangement series. Welcome to Sprout Tower!

I wanted to mess with expectations on this one. I began by choosing the obvious musical flavour for this arrangement - Japanese - and to be honest I felt it needed something more. As beautiful as this style of music is, I felt that sticking to traditional Japanese music was a bit safe. I almost chose the safe option, but felt that in order to grow as a composer I needed to break the mold, even just a little. That’s when I decided to introduce some vintage-sounding synth.

Why synth? Well, I’ve been watching a few horror movies recently and I’ve really enjoyed the soundtracks to them, in particular Disasterpiece’s It Follows score. It just gave me this really nostalgic, twisted kind of feeling. I felt as if I could get away with incorporating this sound into a Gold and Silver arrangement because to me the game has a really strange atmosphere unlike any other game in the series.

I was just a youngen when Pokémon Gold & Silver came out here in the UK. At that point the Pokémon franchise had been around for a couple of years and was really ingrained into every boy and girls’ mind. Everyone was familiar with the likes of Pikachu, Bulbabsaur, Ash, Team Rocket etc. Whether it was the Gameboy game, the trading cards, the TV show, everyone just *knew* Pokémon. It was part of the furniture, part of youth culture.
Then information on the newest games, Gold & Silver, started to appear in gaming magazines. I remember seeing those early Sugimori illustrations of Sunkern, Houndour, Igglybuff. I thought, hey these aren’t my Pokémon, they’re freaks! And the images of the new trainer and rival…something felt really off about them, something uncanny.

I remember first playing the game on an emulator that my IT teacher had (probably illegally) given me. It was a horrible fan-translation, nothing made sense. As a young boy, using a computer and the internet in its infancy, this game made an impression on me, and it wasn’t good. It made me feel uncomfortable, and I can’t really pinpoint it other than everything in the game felt uncanny. I get really nostalgic thinking of Pokémon Gold and Silver, moreso than Red and Blue, but it’s not a nice feeling of nostalgia. Like how I described the It Follows music, it’s a twisted nostalgia. Even now, everything about the game creeps me out a bit.

So that’s why I decided to introduce some synth amongst the traditional Japanese instruments. Does it work? I’m not sure. But I hope it embodies the creepy, weird feeling that resides in the Gold and Silver games. And Bellsprout. I mean just look at its face, it knows something man.

Hope you enjoy this one! Check out my other Gold & Silver arrangements (they’re a bit old now):

► New Bark Town: https://youtu.be/BpG2DufICTE

► Route 29: https://youtu.be/am4aQjyc1gM

~ Adam