Made for my final project in my Music Composition class.

My class was shown a game called "Saturn Moon", a game made by my professor and a different class. We were told afterwards that we needed to make a main theme for the game, based only on what we saw, for our final.
The game featured a character just running through a destroyed city, explosions and UFOs everywhere, so I instantly thought something that makes you think action. Using Pro Tools, I made a real catchy riff with a bass guitar sample, added some violins and cellos for chords, a good rock beat for the drums, and a generic synth as the melody, meant to give it a kind of sci-fi sound.
I'm still proud of it, especially something that only took me a weekend to do.

Saturn Moon - Music Comp Final

Made for Takeover Trail, a game by MassDiGI.

A calming, jazzy, "elevator music" type theme for the main gameplay of Takeover Trail, a "political" real time strategy "plague" game, based off of games like Plague Inc. and Pandemic.

When I joined the team, the gameplay scenes had no music, so I was tasked with making a new track. Jazz fit the over all theme of the game, as the previous composer had made a very jazzy, upbeat main theme, but I didn't want the song that's being played during every level, the song the player would be listening to the most, to be loud, annoying, repetitive, etc. Still in major key, I decided to go with an "elevator music" type of sound. Fits with the theme of jazz, but slower paced, relaxed, and subdued to keep it from being TOO in-your-face-all-the-time.

Takeover Trail - Gameplay Track

A Little Less Showtime! - a track for the game Rift Rave, meant to play during the menu.

Made alongside the main theme, appropriately titled "Showtime!", composed by Stuart Griswold. The same big band sound, swing, key, and includes many motifs from the original. It took some time analyzing the chord progression and the key used in the song to keep it sounding very similar, but it definitely paid off. Unfortunately, the original is not uploaded at the current time.

Made in OpenMPT, using Windows Midi sounds. A default until we as a team (the Rift Rave audio team) find better samples or VSTs to make a more unified soundtrack.

Rift Rave - A Little Less Showtime!

Bugurlar! - The theme for the character Staan in Rift Rave.

Staan is a little, dimwitted, kleptomaniac imp that was made to antagonize the player whenever they accidentally landed on his space. The joke of these names, the original name being "Satan" and the track "Burglar!", is because the character is illiterate and has trouble spelling.

Since this character was meant to be creepy, childish, a little demented, that's what I wanted to get from his theme. So I completely threw all rules of conventional music theory out the window and made a completely chromatic scale, meaning all notes (including sharps and flats) are all included. Added a bit of vibrato to every instrument and voila! Creepy, demented sounding theme for a creepy, demented character.

Made in OpenMPT, using Windows Midi sounds. A default until we as a team (the Rift Rave audio team) find better samples or VSTs to make a more unified soundtrack.

Rift Rave - Bugurlar!

An unfinished dubstep drop from an unfinished personal project. One of the few times that I experimented into synths and EDM rather than samples and VSTs, this is something that I want to keep learning and continuing on my own time.

The theme I was going for was sci-fi with 80s synths, More specifically inspired by Tron. The beginning bassline is very reminiscent to Tron, while also giving it a sort of bounce, like a catchy hip hop beat. Along with the whistle-y, "future bass" pad used for the chords, this is easily one of my favorite ideas.

Sometime in the near future, I'd like to work on this again. Most likely refining the synths, and changing what comes after the drop to something matching the intro, more upbeat.

Hockey Circuit

The theme for Pe'ape'a Island, the first level in Defender of Atlantis.

Features instruments such as congas, steel pans, flutes, ukuleles, and nylon guitars to give this theme a very tropical sound.

Made in Pro Tools.

Defender of Atlantis - Pe'ape'a Island Preview

Music composer, primarily for video games. Also enjoys EDM!
This account is mostly to serve as a professional and online archive for past work and personal projects.

Studying game programming at Becker College, concentration on game audio.

Andrew Lobasso