I always loved snowy themed areas! I wanted to give this one a bit of an unique feeling though, hence why the song can be very minimalistic at places, to give a better emphasis on a howling wind sound that will play in-game throughout this area!

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Snowy Road(Created February 2022)

Another one of my personal faves, it was so fun finding ways to use instruments that would be associated with an ice location and ones that would be associated with a desert one, and make it sound like both! I never thought celesta and a sitar could go together so well before xP

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Frozen Desert Palace Theme(Created December 2022)

Bongos, guitars, an ominous choir, and an airy flute. The classics for any Fire Temple in a video game! It was so hard to stop myself from using a sitar as well, but I needed the music in the desert areas to stand out too xD At the same time, the guitar near the end almost sounds like a sitar anyway, so who won in the end...?

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Rising Determination - Fire Temple Theme (Created October 2022)

I had an issue with what sort of vibes I wanted for this area, and I almost thought of giving up entirely, but at one point I discovered in one of my VST's a guitar sample that sounded so good at the time to me, that I made the whole song in one day using it as a base xp That's why it's playing the chords through almost the whole song!

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Western Wildlands Theme(Created August 2022)

A hollow mountain, with a mechanical, futuristic-looking interior. It's the longest area in the game, so I wanted to challenge myself to make the longest track I could! It's a whole 5 minutes before it loops!

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Inside Mountain Chills (Created July 2022)

A bit of a more serious tone as this one is meant to play when you enter the game's latter half, but still using the same instruments as the first theme for some consistency.

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Gettin' Serious - Second Regular Battle Theme (Created March 2022)

First battle theme for my game! It's very intentionally reminiscent of the Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga battle theme. I still like it, although given how long ago it was made, I've been recently considering remaking it from scratch...

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Bouncy Fightin' - Regular Battle Theme (Created December 2021)

Another tune I created quite early on, so it's a bit minimalistic, but that, alongside a lot of reverb, was intentionally done to give a better sense of the space as you travel across pretty vast sewer canals. It also uses melodies from the regular city theme because leitmotifs are fun!

The image here is very early concept art for the sewer area, although the person who made it isn't working with us anymore...

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Underground Sewers (Created October 2021)

The oldest track on here! It's chords are pretty much repeated through the whole song, but I never remade it as I think it still holds up well enough. The area it plays in won't really be revisited, so it works as a simple tune for a simple place!

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Neon City at Night (Created April 2021)

Another theme that has technically been composed long ago, but recently got an overhaul both in the instrumentation and composition overall. The idea here was simple - just use the melodies from the regular theme of these characters and make it into a bouncy, silly but exciting battle theme! I also wanted to use voice samples for it, but since my brother wasn't available this time, I had to grab some I found on the internet xD They don't mean anything though, put together it's just random gibberish...

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Egotistic Egomania - Team Stella's Boss Theme (Created April 2023)

The main melodies used in this have been sitting on my drive for such a long time, but it took me a while to figure out how to combine them into a full song. This is the theme of the rival characters in the game, two goofballs that are as obstructive to the main characters as they are endearing to the player. They are also popular idols! For that reason I thought it'd be cool to include some synths and voiceclips, which I got my brother to make for me!

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Attention Please! - Team Stella's Theme (Created March 2023)

A submerged temple, that hides a lot of ancient history and old, forgotten relics of the past. I imagined that sort of place would give off an air of mysticism and melancholy, so that's the vibes i set out to give off with this one!

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Sunken Secrets - Water Temple Theme (Created January 2023)

One of my personal favorite tunes! Pretty recent too, so it's easy to tell how I finally started to figure things out here xD The start to the song was inspired by the Xenoblade Colony 9 theme, as the theme itself begun as me simply playing around with it's beginning chords on my guitar. Meanwhile the latter half is just more of my typical melody layering shenanigans.

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Scorching Dunes - Desert Theme (Created May 2023)

My newest tune! This one took me quite a bit of time to come up with, as it's for a pretty important area in the game! A hidden city of outlaws and criminals, located deep underground - that despite it, has a bit of a chill and subdued vibe, with low-energy neon signs and flickering lanterns. Balancing the "shady streets" vibes with "chill hideout" vibes was not an easy task, but I really like what I came up with in the end!

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Chillin' In The Underground City (created July 2023)

This theme is meant to play during exploration of a vast, sprawling overworld, so I wanted it to nail that sense of adventure and excitement, and when I think of overworld themes in games that nail that, my mind immediately goes to Xenoblade games, so this track is very much inspired by themes like Gormott and Gaur Plain!

https://twitter.com/GameroftheWinds was kind enough to provide his incredible skills to play the flutes you hear in this track! That's right, this is the first theme I made with an actual live instrument playing!


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Overworld Theme - Roaming Asteria (Old Version, Created September 2023)

I felt like I could do way better for my game's battle theme, as the old one is one of my first compositions ever - I just felt it didn't represent my abilities as a musician anymore, and sounded out of place with the rest of the soundtrack. So I tried to make a new one... and learned so many new things along the way, that I think I improved even more, and now almost all the songs that I made for the game feel like they don't fit xD Looks like I'll have to remake... basically the whole soundtrack... yay...

Still, I'm really proud of how this one came out! I'm finally starting to get to a level where I can comfortably say I like what I made. Take that, low self-esteem! ...pleasetellmeitsgoodplease

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Hunter Chronicles: Tara and Vyn OST - Let's get 'em! (Regular Battle Theme)

This boss theme has actually first been made a few years ago, close to when the game's development truly started, and when I was just starting to learn and get my footing in music making. I was really proud of it at the time, but ever since, as my music kept improving, it felt less and less... good. So, I tried to remake it many times since, but just never really liked it any more, as a lot of the song just felt... Samey. I came close to giving up and making a new one entirely, until i tried just for the hell of it to instead try to come up with new melodies to insert in place of the old ones, and surprisingly, it started to work! Changing around some stuff, inserting new melodies then giving those new chord progressions, i ended up making a weird mix of old and new that I'm really proud of. It finally feels like an exciting, epic confrontation! I hope the bosses of the game can match the hype I felt making this song!

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Hunter Chronicles: Tara and Vyn OST - Clash! (Boss Theme)

The overworld for this game is one of the things we'd like to focus on a lot during development - we plan for it to be a sprawling, massive open area full of platforming challenges, optional mini-dungeons, caves and other places to explore, as well as unique enemies and optional mini-bosses. For a place like that, I really wanted to capture a sense of exploration, wonder and excitement, and when I think to a game series whose overworld themes consistently nailed that - I think of Xenoblade, and as such, this theme was inspired a lot by it's themes, mainly Gaur Plains and Gormott (especially Gormott xD)

The overworld is not the only place to be explored though - it's an area filled with mostly optional segments, which connects the main 6 areas of the game. It's something to return to and explore at your leisure in-between the main story beats! As such, I would like the theme for it to not get old too fast, so I tried my best to extend the song as much as I could - and ended up with making the theme almost 6 mins before the loop, which I'm very proud of.

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Hunter Chronicles: Tara and Vyn OST - Roaming Asteria (Overworld Theme)

A peppy, cheerful theme for a peppy, cheerful girl!

I've actually had struggled with starting this song more than I ever expected to - my specialty is area themes, so I wanted to make sure to actually make this sound like a character theme instead of another level theme, but nothing just came out right...

Thankfully for me, my good friend https://soundcloud.com/danirbu-gomez helped me out, and he came up with the starting chords and beginning melody, which gave me the push and inspiration I needed, and I came up with the rest of the track myself (as well as slightly rearranged the melody and chords to fit said rest of the song lol)

And of course, once again, the flutes have been live-recorded by the amazing https://twitter.com/GameroftheWinds ! Huge thanks again, you're the best.

Joyful Heartbeat Melody (Tara's Theme) - Hunter Chronicles: Tara and Vyn OST

One of the rare times where the old composition I had still held up for me, so most of the melody has remained unchanged from the old versions! I mainly just tried to rearrange it with better instruments and a better overall feel, though I wonder if I made it too intense by the end... Oh well
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Serenade of Apathy (Vyn's Theme) - Hunter Chronicles: Tara and Vyn OST

Another theme that has been composed before, but I've returned to to give it a better feel and arrangement. https://soundcloud.com/danirbu-gomez helped me with this one too, rearranging the first section's melody a bit to give it a better mystical and sorrowful feel, and I went with the rest from there!

This theme is a very important one, as it's melody is incorporated throughout a lot of the soundtrack as an overarching leitmotif! To emphasize this character's importance and mystique, I wanted the final part to be played not just on a flute, but on a shinobue - which https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQFIzKI61fxibPgfPKeJQxw not only had in his collection, but was also kind enough to play! As always, huge thanks for this, it came out sounding amazing.

Echoes of the Veiled Past (Vera's Theme) - Hunter Chronicles: Tara and Vyn OST

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For Gold and Glory! (Battle Arena) - Hunter Chronicles: Tara and Vyn OST

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