Shadow's Grove is the capstone game project from my last 2 years in the music program at DigiPen. The game is an atmospheric, emotional journey about grief and letting go, centered around our two main characters, Astrid, and her wolf companion, Eri. It marks the culmination of all the composition and sound design classes I took over the 4 year degree, and is a collection harmony, melody, and mix that I'm really proud of! Hope you enjoy :)

01 Splash

04 Peaks

07 Grove

03 Departure // Arrival

06 Reunited Alt

08 Approach

02 Eri's Theme

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Mega Man III - Top Man

The music represented here is an example of some of the original compositions that I wrote in the late 90s in MIDI format. Similar to my Enhanced Game MIDIs, these works use general MIDI samples from my Yamaha Motif ES8 workstation keyboard. Although they were polished for presentation with expression and mixing tweaks, these songs overall maintain the Super Nintendo-inspired composition style that I produced years ago.

I made several MIDIs in the 1990s for a virtual world called Dreamscape: the first and last remaining zone in a vintage metacommunity called VZones (formerly WorldsAway).  Dreamscape features a fantasy atmosphere inspired by Greek mythology.  It is the land of the god of dreams, Morpheus, and its central area of interest is the City of Phantasus on the Island of Kymer.   Unlike music for Second Kingdom, the compositions written for Dreamscape all share a common melody—a leitmotif—and are entirely unofficial.

This samba theme from September of 1997 represents Isle Caribe, a tropical club with island jungle safari décor.  Back then, progress on the project ceased for no clear cut reason, but I do recall that I was unhappy with the way the steel drums were handled later.   Picking up the project again nearly 28 years later, I added the B section and ending to match the others of the set.  Some adjustments were made to the composition to improve its flow and balance using the same writing philosophy that I had in the 90s.  Amongst these changes are the improved diversity in the percussion line, the transfer of the early bottle blow phrases to the choir, and some smaller tweaks made to the steel drums and bass.  Please enjoy this classic!

Disclaimer:
Dreamscape was a trademark of Fujitsu Ltd.
Second Kingdom was a trademark of Stratagem Corporation.
VZones is a trademark of VZones Ltd.
Content in screenshots were copyright of Fujitsu Ltd.

"Isle Caribe" ~Vintage Original~ from Dreamscape

✨ A Moment Glows is an unofficial remix of “Rusty Ruins Zone” from Sonic 3D Blast (Saturn).
Original composition by SEGA / Richard Jacques.
This version includes original lyrics and reimagined production, released solely for enjoyment and non-commercial use.
All rights remain with SEGA and the original copyright holders.

A Moment Glows (Rusty Ruins Remix)

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