Welcome to the official playlist for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest! 🎶

This collection features every submission, listed in the order they were received.

🎯 Contest Overview:
Participants were challenged to create an original song for a game of their choice. Each track was designed to fit naturally within the game—whether for a specific scene or theme.

🗳️ Judging Process:
A panel of judges will narrow this list of 29 songs down to the Top 10 finalists.

The Top 10 songs will be announced at the June 25th Game Industry Gathering—and then YOU get to vote! Stay tuned for the ballot—we need your input to help choose the final winners!

🎵 Listen. Enjoy. Support your favorite composers. Leave encouraging comments!

Huge thanks to everyone who submitted—and good luck to all!

(ALL ENTRIES) POTIONS & PIXELS GAME MUSIC CONTEST

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

POTIONS & PIXELS (https://www.potionsandpixels.com/) is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.

🎶 Song Name: Chilling Depths
🎮 Game: Geometry Dash
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry_Dash
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Music for any level.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: N/A
🎼 Credits: Mia Gobble

Temporarily added "Geometry Dash" and description info to the SoundCloud page as a metadata indicator for the contest.

Chilling Depths (Geometry Dash)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: The Arrival
🎮 Game: Halo 3
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_3
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Being dropped off from a Pelican ship at the beginning of an Exploration Zone, with combat levels not exceeding low intensity.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/6wbp6plTFrE?si=qS3AEA3N3M-GuzMn&t=41
🎼 Credits: Kendall Wix - Composer

The Arrival (Halo 3)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: Covert
🎮 Game: Splinter-Cell: Chaos Theory
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Splinter_Cell:_Chaos_Theory
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: This Stealth track is designed to dynamically scale alongside gameplay, ranging from the player being Undetected to Full-Combat.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/B9bn1ooLZJk?si=WJv84lPmZvX9XvaO&t=5044
🎼 Credits: Kendall Wix - Composer

Covert (Splinter-Cell: Chaos Theory)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: Maroon Moth
🎮 Game: Mega Man X
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_X
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Stage Music - Combat
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/pYPMaTjv38I?t=20
🎼 Credits: Reniery Villafranca

Maroon Moth (Mega Man X)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. POTIONS & PIXELS is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact

Rketec - University Park

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: The Underground Lab
🎮 Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Ultimate
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: My song was designed to be stage music for an underground lab stage, if it were to exist in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The BPM is strategically placed at 130 to have an upbeat feel to it. It is fast enough to get players in the fighting mood, but not too distracting during gameplay.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVmjfkTZH3s&t=11s
🎼 Credits: Jimmy Saldana - Lead Composer
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The Underground Lab (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. POTIONS & PIXELS is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.

I used a theme from the game as the initial melody for the track to help set the tone and to invoke the emotional arc of the game before the expansion of the melody past the introduction of the song. 

The idea was to expand upon the melody, which is being use as a centerpiece for the listener's personal experience into the game, and dive into the emotional impact that the game's Pacifist Post-Game sequence gives to the player, or at least what impact it had on me.

Toby

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 
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🎶 Song Name: The Get Down
🎮 Game: NBA Street Vol. 2
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Street_Vol._2
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Menu Music: Character selection/Team selection and Stage selection.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: [Please provide a video link.]
🎼 Credits: BlackSmith Sundays - Producer

The Get Down (NBA Street Vol. 2)

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🎶 Song Name: Mission Statement
🎮 Game: Hitman 2 (2018)
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_2_(2018_video_game)
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Menu music: mission recap stat screen
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/lM61IOqNjrs?si=Iq8xXm45OzNHoHlr&t=1266
🎼 Credits: BlackSmith Sundays - Producer

Mission Statement (Hitman 2)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: Sushi Go Round
🎮 Game: Pokémon Stadium
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Stadium
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Sushi Go Round mini game
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/H1XdkHvdn24?si=opsNnUwz4uFHhBrw&t=16
🎼 Credits: Anthony Nguyen

Sushi Go Round (Pokemon Stadium)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 
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 (https://www.potionsandpixels.com/) 
is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.

🎶 Song Name: METEOR HERD
🎮 Game: Sonic Adventure 2
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Adventure_2
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Background music for the Meteor Herd level.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/qQXFk8-GyNg?si=aZbUBq0z0Sb6oUbQ
🎼 Credits: Donovan Scott - Producer

METEOR HERD (Sonic Adventure 2)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 
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🎶 Song Name: Hills Silent
🎮 Game: Silent Hill 2
📝 Game Info: Silent Hill 2 (Wikipedia)
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Intro Music/Intro Theme
🔊 Listen on SoundCloud
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/Lwx6Jfyvij8
(you don't need to play track if you choose the video, music is embedded in video)

Hills Silent (Silent Hill 2)

Out My Way

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: Phantom Thief
🎮 Game: Persona 5
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_5
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Title Screen
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aABZpxhejUE
🎼 Credits: Anthony Nguyen

Phantom Thief (Persona 5)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. POTIONS & PIXELS (https://www.potionsandpixels.com/) is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.

🎶 Song Name: Puddle Jumping
🎮 Game: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing%3A_New_Horizons 
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Don your raincoat and galoshes! We're gonna go catch some bugs and maybe a fish!
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDm8l4_wDw&t=3427s 
📹 Alternative game trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6k_QRrZ_60
🎼 Credits: Bryan Guess - composer, performer, recording engineer, etc.; with additional percussion performance by Chloe G

The music in this video is an original work, inspired by *Animal Crossing: New Horizons*

The absolutely glorious Opening Theme was composed by Yasuaki Iwata and performed by others. Check out this beautiful performance by the original musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWKdsawDSvU

Puddle Jumping (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: Wrong Barrio

🎮 Game: Streets of Rage 4

📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_Rage_4

📽️ Scene / Theme Description: General Street Combat music. Side scrolling through the streets encountering different enemies.

📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/AMvWyyEgbDs *Video includes song*

🎼 Credits: Xavier Jimenez (Code: Savi) - Producer

Wrong Barrio (Streets of Rage 4)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: Ghost
🎮 Game: ABZU
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abz%C3%BB
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: This track aims to emulate the experience of exploring an underwater cave, with brighter tones as the swimmer rises and deeper, more resonant sounds as they descend.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: http://youtu.be/RDSIdD8-efE
🎼 Credits: Connor McElroy - Composer

Ghost (ABZU)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: Intro
🎮 Game: TetherGeist
📝 Game Info: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3273110/TetherGeist_Demo/
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: This track serves as a first introduction to the game, capturing the laid-back beauty and grandeur of a player gazing over her world beneath a towering moon, and is carefully timed to align with the intro screen in the video below.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: http://youtu.be/u_ELwti9Aho?feature=shared&t=5
🎼 Credits: Connor McElroy - Composer

Intro (TetherGeist)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. This video is official gameplay footage of Hi-Fi Rush along with my track Digital Dreams. This is a rhythm game, so it is deeply integrated with the official tracks so it was difficult finding a specific clip. 

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🎶 Song Name: Digital Dreams

🎮 Game: Hi-Fi Rush

📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_Rush

📽️ Scene / Theme Description: General late game gameplay with more complex composition. 

📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/fnQVWmV-esQ *Video includes song*

🎼 Credits: Xavier Jimenez (Code: Savi) - Producer

Digital Dreams (Hi-Fi Rush) Competition Edit

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

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🎶 Song Name: Sunrise Serenade
🎮 Game: Kingdom Hearts 3
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts_III
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Main theme
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnGZnKTdtRY
🎼 Credits: Nicholas Filippides