This playlist contains a short selection of music I've written over the years for a wide variety of mobile and casual games.

Fabulous Game Music

Rhythm 'n Bullets

An arcade SHMUP where the music is part of the action.

Travel across the virtual zone and defend the core by guiding a pair of starfighters through the shoot 'em up action of Rhythm 'n Bullets. Enemies fly in from all sides, diving towards the core in time with the soundtrack. Time your shots to the beat for maximum effect, and grab awesome power-ups to clear the stage.

Rhythm 'n Bullets Soundtrack (Quest VR)

Admiral Wars: Soundtrack

Leftovers: Menu Music

Leftovers: In-Game

Leftovers: Stingers

Corporate Music Bed

Dam Beavers: Big Wood Forest

Dam Beavers: Main Theme

Fairy Garden Slot Ambience

Sports Loop

Dance of the Sugar Plum Disco Diva

Sushi Bonus Music

This morning I challenged myself to get as close as I could to recreating the sound of the "seagulls" in the song "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles. I tried several different pieces of software and then ended up using an app on my iPad called PixelWave. With a little messing around I came pretty close (well, close enough, I've got clients waiting on sounds) and I was satisfied with the results.

I do these kinds of audio exercises regularly because not only is it fun, but it also keeps my on my aural toes, not to mention that I've got a pretty big... library of sound effects. So there's that.

Jesse Holt: The Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows" (Seagulls)

05 Darken The Halls

04 The Interstellar

03 Lucky Garden

02 Infinite Acres

01 Entranceway

Admiral Wars breathes new life into the strategy game genre thanks to the capabilities of VR by putting you in the middle of the action. It’s not enough to out-maneuver or out-gun opponents, you must also protect the flagship at all costs. One lapse of concentration is all it takes for an opponent’s guns to line up right outside the starboard window, and if that happens, well… as they say, a good captain always goes down with the ship.

Admiral Wars is a VR game for players looking for a brand-new tactical experience that is easy to pick up but difficult to master. Anyone can learn to sail the waves, but it takes an experienced Admiral to conquer them. The game includes a VS AI mode, and a 1v1 multiplayer mode, with much more to be added in the future!

Admiral Wars:  Bridge Music

Admiral Wars: Intense action (lots of SFX are going off now!)

Admiral Wars: Second Idea (correct direction)

Admiral Wars: First Idea (not used)

Admiral Wars: 80s Vibe Idea (not used)

Admiral Wars: Game Intro Loop

“Pull Up Your Pants” is a song written in 2006 and is loosely based around Britney Spears and the trappings of fame.

Pull Up Your Pants (featuring Tom Bridgman)

PXLS Portal Test

Pixels Outdoors

Jesse Holt Presents: Hummingbird Voice

Gunslinger Theme by Jesse Holt

This collection of music is from the award-winning casual game Collapse! 3. I wrote the music and created the sounds effects for this fantastic game in 2006 while I was the in-house audio designer.

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Collapse! 3 Map Unlock SFX

Collapse! 3 Lazy Music

Collapse! 3 Slow Map Music

Collapse! 3 Scoring Music

Collapse! 3 Winter Music

Collapse! 3 Underwater Music

Collapse! 3 Music Final Quest

Collapse! 3 Music Lava (kick)

Collapse! 3 Bomb Music

Collapse! 3 Lava Music

Collapse! 3 Intro Music

Collapse! 3 Music

Collapse! 3 Moremusic

I worked on the original Text Game from 2004 and had the chance ten years later to update the sound effects, UI sounds and music.

Text Twist Music, SFX and UI

This is a mix of the in-game and menu music I created for a game released earlier this year called Sam or I from the Seattle-based game developer Absolute Hero Games.

Sam or I: In-Game Music and Menu Music

I recently bought a 3Dio binaural microphone and this audio file, "Dog Lick" is my first experiment with ASMR. Not sure if I think the whole ASMR thing is really all that interesting, but I'm always up for something in terms of an aural experience. I hope you like my dogs Dizzy (on the left) and Huckleberry (on the right) licking your earholes.

ASMR: Dog Lick

High Roller Slots: Palace of Wishes Music

Music for Unknown Game

Jesse Holt (Nez Perce) is a Senior Audio Designer and Composer with over 22 years of video game audio content creation experience. Jesse has contributed music and sounds effects to hundreds of games for a wide variety of platforms including VR and AR.

JesseHolt.com

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