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!

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Sister

Gifts

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

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🎶 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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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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: 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)

Out My Way

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)

The Legend of Tyrone & The Temple of Gaia

Trying to get out of my comfort zone more. I'd only used the patches that came default with my recording software to make this, think I'm gonna start taking this kind of songwriting more seriously after this.

Toby

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