We did a thing, go play.

My self-imposed one-synth challenge continues, this time with UAD Opal. This ended up as a lo-fi track with a slight horror theme. Also featuring voice talent from @zyrabisqueravo.bsky.social Link to full track in comments.

Over the years I've accumulated a lot of synths and plugins and most of them have gone unused. I started to challenge myself to make music with them, using only one to make a track. This was made using Nils' K1v, a Kawai K1 emulation. It sounds something out of a PS1 JRPG to me.

All Aboard Nova's Ship #voiceactors! 🐳🏴‍☠️ I'm excited to announce that my team and I will be participating in this year's #SpooktoberVNJam Auditions are open until 24th August, Sunday, 12pm GMT / 5am PDT! #CastingCall details and doc below! 1F / 3M / 1NB / 5 Open for All! UNPAID - Game Jam Entry

The soundtrack for Drops of Death is now available to listen on Youtube youtu.be/Kbex7f4K6D4?...

I was one of the composers for Drops of Death. It's out now and you should go play it. Is good.

Ritenuto OST by @henkkastorm.bsky.social is now available as an easy to listen to playlist!! youtu.be/9ckJ-dc5a_I?... There's also a new update to the game (1.1.4) that has a proper link to this playlist as well :3c #indievn #vndev #RitenutoVN

One long-term project finally finished. Go check it out!

Sketching ideas for a new game project

Why didn't anyone tell me about Airwindows before? This is some seriously amazing stuff www.airwindows.com

Latest blog post now available in Finnish too. I find it important to publish my stuff in both Finnish and English since there is not a lot of content available in Finnish that focuses on game music and music theory,

We did a thing, go play it!

New blog post to celebrate the re-release of Breath of Fire IV on GOG. The music in this game is simply wonderful and I wanted to give it a closer look.

It's a weird Sunday

Building up that sound library

New tune

I wish that tenor and alto clefs would stop existing

We did a thing. It's fun, you should go play it.

Chrono Trigger is, and always will be, my favourite game ever. Finnish Broadcasting Company did a nice article on it for its 30th anniversary (in Finnish, though). yle.fi/a/74-2014764...

Usually it's a good thing if the music in a game supports the visuals, story, atmosphere etc. and then you have games like Ys VIII where the music slaps so hard that it doesn't matter if it doesn't make me feel like I'm exploring a tropical island.

Finally.

Warriors: Abyss shadowdropped out of nowhere and it seems like it's one of my dream games: a musou roguelite. I think I'll be spending a lot of time with it over the weekend.

Working on a new transcription for the blog. Can you guess the tune? (psst, you can check it out here henritikkalamusic.weebly.com/blog)

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a pretty fun game but the audio mixing is pretty terrible. For example music overpowers dialogue constantly during cutscenes or a million voicelines triggering at the same time repeatedly during combat making it an absolute mess to listen to.

Sometimes you stumble on something pretty decent in a practice session. I was working on sound design today and came up with this pad that gives some nice retro horror game feels.

One of the projects I wanted to get off the ground this year was a blog where I transcribe and analyse interesting pieces of game music. It's available now at henritikkalamusic.weebly.com/blog and the first post is about Final Fantasy X. I post both in Finnish and English.

First track WIP for the new year. This time I'm feeling house in the style of Soichi Terada.

Undergrowth keeps growing! New story content, new music by yours truly and lots of other things.

Today I worked on finishing an old track that was lying around unfinished for a while now. I went for a PS1-style ambient/downtempo for this one.

Year after year the most watched video on my Youtube channel is a Mega Man cover I made almost 10 years ago. I've made lots of other stuff over the years but this one beats them all in views.

Writing some chill jazz music for a project. It also fits the chill low light of my office space.

Here's a track I put out some time ago called "Lightwatching". I've been on a 90's jungle binge for a while and this track came out of that.

Started a new transcription today.

Today's patch in #vcvrack. Tinkering around and trying out modules like Polygene and Lark.

Also, I’m available for commissions. DM for rates or to answer any questions you have! #indiegamedev #gamedev #composer

Working on sad feels today. And my track naming skills are still great as ever.

Just finished nuking my other account over at you-know-where and I'll be moving my focus here more. So. Hey, all! I'm Henri and I make music and other noises. I'll be sharing my journey here. If you want to contact me check my profile. Here is a picture of (one of my) desktop mascot.

I found some tunes on my old hard drive from over 15 years ago, when I was first starting to make music. Let's just say that progress has been made since. It's nice to look back on what has changed over the years and how I hear things differently through practice and experience.

Noise is great for creating texture but it's also a powerful tool that can also be used to modulate or drive a clock signal etc. Everything in this drone is driven by noise or other random/chaotic modulation signals. It can help create lots of movement and life in your sounds.

I am on the verge of losing my apartment and I’m having a hard time finding commissions. If you like what I do and want to support me, I’ve set up a ko-fi page. Anything helps ❤️ I still need around $350 RPs are appreciated #gamedev #gameaudio #composer ko-fi.com/megollyen

[Sound On 🎵] Since I started playing #AlanWake2 again, here’s a track I did inspired by it 😊 If anyone is in need of a composer/sound designer I’m available for commissions! Feel free to DM and we can have a chat #gamedev #indiedev #horror #horrorgame

Fun thing about learning sound design is that you start to pay attention to the every day sounds around you differently and think about how I could use them. Today my bathroom door sounded like a laughing bird.

My personal music-making tends to go in phases and this time I'm in a city pop-phase. Full track here youtu.be/kCoq6ivS9Jw?...