I made a couple of songs for this! It's a cool little atmospheric game where you walk around and interact with stuff, uncover dialogue, secrets, and the sort. And I'm pretty proud of the tunes I did for this one!

Halloween is upon us and @materiacollective.com are celebrating by launching preorders for the vinyl soundtrack to Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion by @akumakira.bsky.social, @jarrencrist.bsky.social and Nolan Reese: blipblop.net/spookys-jump...

This performance rocks, I love clipping. and they took a primarily electronically-produced set of songs and pulled off a lot of cool acoustic adaptation and found sound foley stuff in this, it's really cool. youtu.be/h0-k7vW9Xek

ok, time for another round of #screenshotsaturday. This is 'Tidal Hell', a zero-player war sim game where you engineer weapons and send off your pawns to watch them fight. w/ music by @jarrencrist.bsky.social <333 check it out @ play.google.com/store/apps/d... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Just found you can use a browser extension to re-enable the little "Watch Later" button that used to be present in the top corner of YouTube thumbnails as a quick way to add videos into that playlist and JEEZ I've missed that feature so much.

This color... It's a Bismol.

If I hear you rave about how great "AI Summaries" are on Google you've basically outed yourself as having been unable to research anything on the internet up to this point. Yes I have quite a few ppl in my life that talk about how "amazing and helpful" the summaries are.

Big recommend for this game (Mortal Meal) for a short & sweet horror-adjacent game. I really liked the visuals and music in this one especially, plus it's got a good story to boot. (Also its OST is free on Bandcamp which is super dope.)

Fun fact: the main synth used in my song "Falling to my Death" from Lunacid is a patch called "Siphons in the Sky" from the plugin: Absynth 5, by Native Instruments.

I love Donkey Kong Country on the SNES, but am I alone in feeling the level design of the first entry is kind of... frustrating? I love the way the game feels, looks, sounds, how DK/Diddy control - but the levels themselves have been kind of annoying, enemy placement feels cheap oftentimes.

This legit sounds like a Zelda Dungeon or something, cool vibe: youtu.be/dW6x7b3YmTg?...

With every passing day I feel my "professional" veneer fading in favor of more human interaction with every instance of nonsense I encounter in business-y convos with people. Working a desk job does that to you I think, lol. There's only so much disingenuous interaction one can stomach.

Post 4 albums that influenced your music and tag 2-4 others! @akumakira.bsky.social @nolanbrewer.bsky.social @grantkirkhope.bsky.social @lukewasthefish.bsky.social

I'm part of a new compilation album from The Fainting Room! Lots of cool artists featured in this, like Luke Vincent (Automaton Lung) Mike Klubnika (Buckshot Roulette) and others, too many cool folks to mention. The album is completely FREE on Bandcamp! thefaintingroom.bandcamp.com/album/transc...

Normalize taking screenshots of posts of cool art, music, games and other stuff that you want to check out later but don't have the time to in the moment. Can't tell you how many things I've been able to circle back to and enjoy that way.

Heard a weird similarity to a synth from a song from the game Sephonie by @hantani.bsky.social and "Rock with You" by Michael Jackson, they're almost identical - pretty neat! Kinda makes me wonder if it was an emulation vst of a similar synth used in the MJ song or something.

I guess Mario Kart World has a bunch of new arrangements of pretty deep cut/relatively obscure Nintendo music, keep seeing posts about it and stuff - I think that's pretty neat! Nice to hear some of these old songs with a cool new take.

As a big Mario Kart DS fan the new game with the free roaming and all the micro challenges in the world looks pretty fun, it's kinda like an improved "mission mode" from the aforementioned game in that sense. Also gives Sonic Frontiers vibes to me. Just cruising around and doing random stuff.

The game industry is a little chaotic right now and I'm trying to do something about it: We're working to raise funds for diverse video game music composers. If that's you and you're interested, please fill out this form! and please share far and wide!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

PSA: Google forces AI summaries on almost everything you search and there's no way to remove them without adding syntax like "-ai" to the start of the query, and given that environmental impact of ai summaries vs. regular search engine queries I'd say it's not a bad time to switch an alternative.

Isn't it weird that the games "Shadow x Sonic" generations and Mario & Luigi Brother"ship" came out in the same year as each other? Was 2024 the year of yaoi games? 🤔

This is easier than I thought it would be, I'm not rly feeling any FOMO after the big reveal yesterday. I'm pretty content with holding out for a while on the system. (That and the new reality of games/consoles pricing this generation is kind hard to swallow...)

I'm rly curious about the whole rumored-ish "Mouse" functionality with the new Switch, a ton of ppl I know only ever play docked or in bed/handheld so I struggle to imagine who would actually use it on tabletop with a mouse except for rly specific stuff. Guess we'll probably find out tomorrow tho

youtu.be/ueDNFx0v_yw @akumakira.bsky.social and I were interviewed at GDC about music and more for Lunacid and Lost in Vivo!

I've posted the Glitched Out OST on all streaming places! If you haven't checked out that game or the music I'd recommend the songs "Everything has a Price!" or "Chip Chillwave (Chip's Chill Mix)" as those are some of my faves that I made for the OST jarrencristmusic.com/my-video-gam...

I'm gonna commit to not buying/pre-ordering a Switch 2 unless there's an exclusive game at launch that I just SUPER want to play. It's probably inevitable that I'll get one eventually but I'm gonna try and resist the consumerist hype cycle type beat and hold off for a while.

Absolutely killer OST by @thorhighheels.bsky.social right here - I just now got around to checking it out and it's so good. Big recommend.

I did a song with my friend @nolanbrewer.bsky.social and it is out today! I enjoyed making it with him and you can listen to it via the link below - It's called "Bucket Listless" jarrencristmusic.com/collaboratio...

My irl self is so shy/dorky that idk how ppl who know me reconcile that with some of my more serious/darker art because it's so different from how I present myself in the day to day but yet it's still a big part of who I am mentally/emotionally and how I've put myself into what I make.

Retailers are running "MLK Day Sales", jeez. Don't they have plenty of designated consumerist holidays to run their annoying advertisements?

also "Trip to the aquarium type-beat" is how I'm out here tryna be low-key, at least with some stuff lol

I'm able to see TikTok videos that use my music in the background and I think that's pretty neat, it's heartwarming to know that someone thought of my stuff when they were thinking of something to put in their video. I saw one that used my music in the background for an aquarium video, that was cool

Posted a new(ish) song to my YouTube! It's part of a larger collaboration (The Fainting Room) with a bunch of other artists, I'd reccomend checking out the full album on Bandcamp or SoundCloud! (Only if u enjoy cool music tho) youtu.be/v6B9y_c_d2c?...

Idk why but I have a very specific memory of singing "Follow Me" (theme of team Rose from Sonic Heroes) in front of my bedroom TV as a kid and being super into it. I liked all the team themes in that game but the shee bubblegum/girly energy in that track is just infectious.

Spotify pushing a.i. music into their curated playlists is the last straw for me using it at this point, I've used them for years and years because they're kinda "the" streaming platform but that shit is just insulting to artists and I can't stand the thought of paying into it w my own money now.

Shadow Generations absolutely rips, I rly enjoyed it. The inner AMV enjoyer within me fuckin loved the dumb wings they added to Shadow during the late game too, so good.

My first album I ever put out on streaming (Catharsis) is gonna turn 10 years old next year... Damn. I might do a re-release or something to celebrate it, include some "new" tracks from around that time period as bonus material, that kind of thing. That album is still rly special to me.

I will forever associate the song "Face Down" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus with the Beaver Bother minigame from Donkey Kong 64 and I can't fully explain why.

Is this pic of a Baja Blast I was drinking "Frutiger Aero"? 🧐🧐🧐

When I finally finish this game, you will not be ready.

the way Spotify Artists Wrapped focuses on quantification and numbers feels weird. the point of making music isn't so that i can get a scoresheet that says "you got +1000% playlist adds this year!!", it's for those lone youtube comments on the music where someone shares an anecdote abt their life..

Ngl FAITH is probably one of the scariest horror games I've played in recent memory, especially when it plays with limited lighting/visibility during certain parts, it can be really unnerving and threatening to get through.

"Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack is such an amazing and pretty song, I'm making it a rule that it's required listening for everyone. If you haven't listened to it before DO IT NOW

Gonna listen to the remade Silent Hill 2 OST at some point but holy-moly is the cover for it one of the most corpo-designed looking soundtrack arts I've ever seen. It's so ass.

My introduction to the song "Still Alive" from Portal is from an unlockable disc in a Minecraft mod, my little sister and I would play together with mods and put that disc on in the background a lot and sing along to it. It's a hyper-specific association to have with that particular song lol

I'm gonna try to get back into reading, used to do it a lot as a teenager but haven't read a book in like, a decade. (oof) Any recommendations or favorite books that you all like? (Anyone feel free to chime in here)

I feel cravings to remake some of my older songs but I think I can recognize that in trying to recreate something from a long time ago, there's a fairly good chance that I could lose some of what made the original music special.

Some day y'all are gonna figure out that the main pad in "Serence" from Lunacid is a default FLEX patch in FL Studio and my career will be over r.i.p.

Fuck anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-women, anti-minority, anti-immigrant, and anti-people policies. Unfortunately, we may be seeing a rise in these policies in the US of A in the coming years. I don't have any faux-positive notes to add, this election's results just plain sucks for so many people.

My wife genuinely thought that Nightmare on Elm Street III was subtitled "Freddy Got Fingered" (forgetting that's a separate movie entirely) and I about lost it hahaha.