Just a little snippet of a little something I've been working on for some people...

Full track coming soon, getting nicely polished all over but I wanted to throw out a little teaser piece. Watch this space.

Enjoy ;)

Something New

As always it's been a while, so today I want to share some of what I've been working on in recent weeks. First off, a little introductory jingle I made for USA-based Cherubim Scribes to use as an introductory piece on their future game releases.

Whilst developing music for A Simple Act I was asked if I could spare the time for a couple of voice edits, mostly just cleanup work. I'll share those in full soon, but upon completing the cleanup work I had sudden inspiration for a jingle piece, and wanted to spend a little extra time making this for them.

Hope you all enjoy, more to follow soon :)

Cherubim Jingle

Current (working) Main Theme for Cherubim Scribes' upcoming visual novel A Simple Act. 
This has been in the works for quite some time now. The inspiration for the entire soundtrack initially stemmed from a piece I wrote a long time ago but never found a use for, then reworked to be placed in this game. A little bit of variation-on-a-theme and suddenly this happens. 

Apparently it sounds a little like Uematsu's Zanarkand, only less good. Everything I write sounds roughly like that. Don't be surprised.

Enjoy everyone, more work coming very soon and a demo of A Simple Act will be available within the next few weeks so stay tuned o/ much love to everyone checking out what I do and keeping me busy.

Still Water

For my next upload tonight, I want to share with you all the piece that started my inspiration for the A Simple Act soundtrack. This is going for use as a more calm, pleasant background piece mid-game, and I wrote it a very long time ago messing around with extended chords for guitar. After some struggle finding a starting point for this project it came back to me and I knew with a little work it would be perfect.

- Of course it still needs a litttle work now >_> This was a sample draft, I need to record some real guitar over the top, but here's a rough teaser for your listening pleasure. Enjoy everyone!!

Shelter

One more for tonight, here's a real oldie. I wrote this for a Mr Maxime Lutin when he was starting out the UMOGA Indie Dev networking platform; as soon as I heard about the project I needed to be involved, and he said he was constructing a promotional video that might require music, so obviously i couldn't refuse. The idea behind this was to be sophisticated and laid-back, a formal, professional background piece for a formal, professional advertisement video, with a slight quirky air of '-but we're also here to make games and party'. In about a week and a half I had this ready, and it seemed to go down well.

Huge thank you to Max and the UMOGA team for everything they've done for both me and the indie scene. Seriously I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing right now if not for your platform, keep at it and I wish everyone involved all the best with the projects they're working on. I have plenty more to do for a couple of UMOGA projects in the coming months so once again stay tuned! 

UMOGA - The Great Business Waltz

Hi everyone, long time. People are giving my Soundcloud page small doses of attention for no reason, which is nice, and thank you all for having a browse.
Anyway lately I've been working to moderate intensity on a game called Beat Team. It's being developed by an independent from Brazil who took me on to knock out some musics. It's a proper cartoon-styled Beat-'Em-Up a la Smash Bros and I thought this would be a great opportunity to challenge myself technically. 
So here's a little piece of a battle theme, I want to do a little remixing, get the EQ more friendly and what have you but since it's been a while here's a new piece. Look out for the Beat Team demo, coming soon!

Beat Team - Battle Theme 1

A recent piece made at Global Games Jam 2016, I'm not sure how we got there, but under the theme of 'ritual' we ended up making a start for a memory/task management puzzler at the Jam called SimonSays, in which you play a tiny cat pirate carrying out his humdrum everyday rituals at the beck and call of a voice in his head. To say any more would be telling, but we had some fun with the concept.

I have to say this concept was quite the creative challenge. We'd basically gone for steampunk cat pirates bringing about the end of the world, with the need for something almost serious-sounding to account for an idea regarding descent into madness, and I needed a looping piece of music that could accompany a tiny feline buccaneer running around his little ship making sure he's doing everything right. It was weird, and we didn't sleep nearly enough, but it was a good time and I can't wait for next year. I also got to work with a few Codemasters devs on this one, which was a great bit of experience. 

I'll soon probably be going back to ASA and Beat Team, and sharing what's been achieved on those two projects. I'm also putting together a video showreel and stepping towards an actual portfolio website where I can host these tracks without the need for a Soundcloud interface, so watch this and every space. 
If you want more regular updates on me and what I do, come grab me on Twitter at @MikeWildAudio and help me share all this stuff around. Hope you all like this one!

SimonSays - Level Track

Hi, my name's Mike Wild, I'm a Staffordshire University graduate and freelance audio designer for computer games.  Here you will find my professional portfolio, containing personal projects and any industry work I have done.

If you like what you hear and wish to contact me please do not hesitate to get in touch via LinkedIn, you can find my profile here: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/michael-wild/87/50/4a7/