The Regreening is a cozy simulation game about restoring nature in a soilpunk fairytale 🌾 🌱grow plants to create living ecosystems 🦉become friends with ancient spirits 🛠️make your own upcycling hub 🤗and hug ALL the animals! Follow us so you don't miss the demo! Thank you #PitchYaGame <3

Hey #PitchYaGame! In Leafy Corner, you run a cute little plant shop filled with real plants like Alocasias or Monsteras! 🌿 - features more than 60 houseplants! 🍃 - casual and cozy 💚

GameSoundCon 2025 was a blast!! It was fun hanging out and chatting to both old and new faces ✨🎶

📢 Love, Ghostie is coming to NINTENDO SWITCH on OCT 1!! 📢 Be a ghost matchmaker and explore 60+ combinations of couples! 👻💘 I did the port myself, so sorry it took so long and thanks for your patience! Greatly appreciate any shares/help spreading the word!!

I wrote the music you hear in the new app by @hankgreen.bsky.social, “Focus Friend”! 🎶 You adopt a little bean who will help you focus and set goals ✨

Flowers and Favours by @irismisk.bsky.social is out now!! 💐 The soundtrack is also available on all streaming platforms and bandcamp 🎼 (I really enjoyed working on this!) Play as a florist and decorate bouquets for various customer requests - there's also a creative mode 🌻🪻🌺

I've created a cozy music asset pack to use in your projects! ✨ The pack contains 15 loopable wav files in the style of Pikmin, Disney Dreamlight Valley and Tales of the Shire. This provides an affordable way to use my music! Thank you for the support 🥰 Link below ⬇️

Sushi On Wheels has a Steam page! 🎉 It was super fun to work on the music for this charming game! (I made a lot of homemade veggie sushi while working on this 🍱)

I've had a few people ask, and YES the music in this pack can be used during streams and YouTube videos without being flagged for copyright! 📺🎙️

I've created a cozy music asset pack to use in your projects! ✨ The pack contains 15 loopable wav files in the style of Pikmin, Disney Dreamlight Valley and Tales of the Shire. This provides an affordable way to use my music! Thank you for the support 🥰 Link below ⬇️

🎼 From Score to Game 🎮 (VIDEO 5) It is now the fifth(!) video in this little series I've created!! In this video, I showcase the music of an upcoming cozy game, "The Regreening" as well as all the behind the scenes and FMOD implementation 🌱 youtu.be/RD4_hUeVCRc?...

I wrote the music you hear in the new app by @hankgreen.bsky.social, “Focus Friend”! 🎶 You adopt a little bean who will help you focus and set goals ✨

🚨⚡️RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT⚡️🚨 I know you’ve been waiting for this... Flowers And Favours is launching on August 29th! 🌸 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #cozygame

Flowers and Favours was featured on today's @dames4games.org showcase!! Thank you @irismisk.bsky.social for the unbelievably kind words and MY BIRD WAS ON IGN 😂🦜❤️

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm Sam, a music composer for cozy video games! I'm looking for more work in the game industry and also have experience in film with credits including Star Wars IX, Avengers: Endgame, Toy Story 4, and Frozen 2. 🎵: linktr.ee/sam_vandersl...

So I made silly music today, which snowballed into drawing a silly crab, then making a silly video. So I hope you enjoy the "Crustacean Convenience Store" 🎶🦀

I am working on the music for this beautiful game! 🌱💕 It's a project I hold incredibly dear to my heart as nature is one (if not, -the-) most important thing to me.

🎼 From Score to Game 🎮 (VIDEO #3) In this video, I break down a piece of music I wrote for the newly-released cozy game, "Islands & Trains"! I'm blown away by the creativity I've seen from the community - we appreciate all the love it has received ❤️ I hope you enjoy the video and happy building! 🚂

The Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration 2025 starts today and Love, Ghostie is currently 25% off! The @cozycelebration.bsky.social takes place from May 29 until June 2! Make sure to check out all the cozy games and discounts: store.steampowered.com/sale/CozyFam...

Islands & Trains is OUT NOW along with the soundtrack!! 🚂🎮 It's been a joy to be a part of this project and to see it come to fruition. I hope you enjoy creating your own little islands bustling with trains, flora and fauna! Links below ⬇️

🎼 From Score to Game 🎮 (VIDEO #2) I had so much fun with the first video, I decided to make a second! This time it features music from an upcoming game, 'Zi: The Three of Hearts'. I talk a little more about the adaptivity in this track. Hope you enjoy it!

🎼 From Score to Game 🎮 I've uploaded a video on YouTube which showcases the MIDI of my game score for Petit Island. There are annotations in the video discussing my composing process and influences, which I hope are helpful, inspiring or just enjoyable to learn about!

Here's a brand new trailer for a game I'm scoring, Blockfeet! I wrote music for the trailer too and I'm really excited about working on this project with Jellycube Games 🥰🎵 Wishlist onSteam: store.steampowered.com/app/2566830/...

I worked on the music (alongside Chopin, you may have heard of him) for this cute little animation, "A Neighbour Duet", by Veda Lee, now streaming on YouTube! 🎶 youtu.be/Rq3p-il8Uyc?...

Received Petit Island goodies in the mail today all the way from Bali 🇮🇩 It was wonderful to be a part of this journey and write the score for the game 🎶🎼 Thank you kindly to Irfan and the team at Xelo Game Studio for having me onboard! I'm very proud of what we created together 🏝️

BAFTA Game Awards just aired and I can share some exciting news! I was invited to be on the jury for this year's Music category along an esteemed panel of colleagues whom I wholeheartedly look up to. It was a pleasure to be a part of this and sink hours into multiple games!

I’m very grateful to have @julieelven.bsky.social singing on this score for a game project! Your voice adds so much beauty to the piece 💜✨

#GDC2025 exceeded all my expectations and was such a magical time! ✨ I had so much fun meeting some faces in person for the first time! I cannot speak highly enough of the people I met, I am so incredibly grateful for all of you. Thank you tremendously for making me feel loved and welcomed.

Petit Island by @xelogames.bsky.social physical edition released today!! This is so exciting, it’s the first game I’ve worked on to have a physical release 🎉 Thank you for supporting our little game ❤️

Can’t wait to share the music for this one! ☺️🎵🚂

for some wild reason, I wrote music that kind of reminded me of a clueless goblin building a house. So then I drew a silly goblin and put the music with it. It made my husband and I chuckle at least 😅

After I played (and loved!) Love, Ghostie by @janbehchanbeh.bsky.social, I happened to find another game that the composer (@sam-vandersluis.bsky.social) worked on! Say hello to Petit Island by @xelogames.bsky.social! I get to play a cat and ride around on a bananallama.

I'm working on music for an upcoming game called Blockfeet! Here's the spring time music I wrote last year. The steam page went live today! 🎶🌱

Received a cute keyring today for writing music for The Songbird Guild by @yurisoftgames.bsky.social! 🩷

HELLOOO I'm still looking for work!! If you need any music/audio services please feel free to reach out!! All shares are appreciated as well :3

I wrote some music to indie animation series, Pieces of Powder by @ekouku.bsky.social! The new episode came out this past Sunday and available to watch now 🎵

Hi all! I'm currently looking for work and open to new projects 🎶 I've composed music for cozy games including Petit Island by @xelogames.bsky.social, Islands & Trains and Love, Ghostie by @janbehchanbeh.bsky.social. I also work in the music dept for film including Star Wars IX & Avatar 2! 😊

cozy reading ☺️📖

In Love, Ghostie you can make your residents go on awkward dates together! When that happens, this awkward music plays 🙉 Even though it sounds ridiculous, I’m really quite proud of it! 🥲🎶

2024 🎊 Some of the projects I worked on this year as music composer 🎼✨

A battle theme I composed for an unannounced action RPG 🎶🎮 Thank you for listening! 🙇‍♀️

Air Garden OST out now!! We decided the release the music ahead of the game release 1.0, but there is a playable 'beta' version up now 💕🎼

I worked on the music for this cute casual game, "smol" by Remy Chanfreau 💫 It was so fun to work on a project with Remy again! The game can be played for free over on itch io: remychanfreau.itch.io/smol There's a BTS on his YouTube channel (which also features me!): youtu.be/BDaENI84w2w?...

Music for an upcoming action RPG! ⚔️🎵 Can’t disclose too much about it yet 😁

Here’s a small section of an orchestral piece I wrote for an upcoming video game ✨🎶

It’s #bandcampfriday! Artists receive full revenue today, so we appreciate the support! I’ve got a couple new soundtrack albums from games that released this year including Love, Ghostie and Petit Island! samanthavandersluis.bandcamp.com

No Spotify Wrapped from me, as I don't use it. Instead, here's a look at some of my Bandcamp purchases/video game soundtrack collection. Support composers. ✌️

My birdies keeping me company as I play some jazz piano 🎹

✨ Love, Ghostie merchandise shop is HERE!!!!!! ✨ - Resident charms with COUPLE heart magnets - Ghostie charms - Resident plush sticker sheet - Ghostie hats sticker sheet - Character stickers - 4x6 Relationship prints US SHIPPING ONLY (for now, sorry!) more info ⬇️

When I was doing mock-ups for Avengers: Endgame, I’d always reference this piece by John Williams. It has a whole spectrum of dynamics and had a similar orchestra ensemble. I always fall in love with this piece 🥹 youtu.be/PmQ1XTWg74M?...