Doin a lil stream! Feel free to come chill (: www.twitch.tv/shadycicada

First selfie of 2026 (: I turn 97 this year!

Hello! I'm Shady Cicada, a Video Game/Animation Composer from Canada. I've had the pleasure of making music for many games and animations, and I'd love to work with you! If you like the sound of my work below, feel free to contact me! Details can be found in my bio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMux...

ARTISTS, I appreciate you all very much. Don't ever let the words and actions of others deter you from your passion. I love seeing your work and the entire creative process behind it. Keep sharing your worlds with us and rock on (: I shall c o n s u m e

In about a week, I'll have a new demo reel out (first one in 5 years), including a ton of songs I made for actual video games and stuff! It all still feels surreal, and I couldn't do any of this without all of you (: Very excited!

Artists (of all kinds), what are your personal tips for burnout? Here's some of mine (: - Take walks - Try playing another instrument - Listen to music that you love. (Especially if it's a new soundtrack) - (Important) Take a break and go do a hobby that you enjoy! - Friends!

A little bit of Piano and Strings for you today! Making some melody ideas.

Spooky times ahead! Streaming Modded Lethal company with friends now! Feel free to come hang (: www.twitch.tv/shadycicada

Grew a little bit over the years. Only a lil (:

This is truly the coolest thing ever. AMAZING job!!

Ah man, I missed the Undertale submissions, but I'm sure this community knows how much that game means to me. + Having a video of mine retweeted by the man himself has done more for myself and my video game music career than he'll know. And for that, I'm grateful (:

I had the awesome opportunity to write a song for this game! Super excited to see a release date 😄 Feel free to check it out if you like Rhythm games and Roguelites!

sleepy music man acquires monke game

Drawing I did for ShadyCicada when he played Pikmin on stream ₍^. .^₎⟆ #Pikmin

Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 were absolutely amazing. Some of the best music yet as well (: definitely gave me some motivation and inspiration. (If you haven't played it, go do it!). And thanks to those who joined me on stream for it! We laughed and cried. Good times 😄

Mario Kart World is already a contender for one of the best Mario OSTs, but the final area of the final track might have one of the best melodies ever produced in the series. I may have had tears in my eyes for the whole course. We've come so far! Glad to have you all here (:

Afternoon Cicada (experimenting with different rooms for future video things)

Funny music man 2 (Playing with camera angles in the small room for potential guitar streams. We'll see 😄)

Ayo? @ylvadaimonas.bsky.social fanmade model reveal? REPO being such a great start to my monday!! had to include @shadycicada.bsky.social @justicesilverwing.bsky.social and the subbaby "Jelly" of @missnoma.bsky.social for the funsies

How to write a great melody: - Map it out - Squint at the screen menacingly and say "this better be good" - Scare the melody into being good Works every time 😎

Wow this is a nice beat *adds more instruments* *adds more instruments* *adds more instruments* *adds more instruments* *adds maybe 1-2 more instruments* Wow this is a hard mix I think my brain needs to chill 🐛

Fun with chords (: (work in progress)

350K subscribers on the first day of 2025 is pretty damn cool (: Thank you for the love and support everyone! ❤️

The latest pickup I got from a con a few days ago! I never owned the gold cart for Ocarina of Time. I decided to go for the whole boxed thing (booklets included)! I grabbed the physical guide for it too. This is gonna make for some good comfy retro nights :)

Today marks the 11th anniversary of Shady Cicada being a thing. So much has happend since then, and there's so much more to look forward to. Thank you for giving this silly music guy a chance all those years ago. I'll do my best to keep blowing you all away :)

So, I've been retro game collecting for maybe 2 years now whenever I set a lil money aside. Idk if people would be interested, but I was thinking of sharing some collection pictures? (: Would share modern collection stuff too

Happy halloween! I made this during @shadycicada.bsky.social's silent hill 2 stream for fun, awesome game and awesome person!

What ritual must I do to get a Switch 2 announcement and a Xenoblade X port

Looks like the video game jams will also continue here! (: