akylzytheAnwyn [she/her,comrade/them]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: January 10th, 2021
  • akylzytheAnwyn [she/her,comrade/them]togames•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    There are some great free (pay what you want) games on itch.io, but my favorite two are:

    The Bewitching Revolution is a cute, hour or two long game following a witch who helps a city bring about revolution - it's what it says on the tin and oozes charm!

    escism is a musical narrative game by composer Lena Raine (of Celeste and now Minecraft fame) there's about 3 hours of story, set in the near-future dystopic world of a text-based adventure game, with a killer soundtrack.

    For multiplayer, 100% Orange Juice is one of my favorite chaotic nonsense titles- it's a turn-based, dueling deck building board game?? It has to be experienced to be understood, honestly.

    And one last short narrative game, The Norwood Suite is wacky absurdism for its entire, brief runtime.

    I'll also second the recommendations in this thread for Paradise Killer, Thirty Flights of Loving and Invisible Inc

  • akylzytheAnwyn [she/her,comrade/them]totechnology•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I've been really enjoying Waveform, just the free version. Though honestly I've only used it and BandLab which I found noxious personally.

    Pros: on all 3 major platforms, very pretty interface (I see rainbow, I like), simple enough for a dumbass like me to use

    Cons: if you're really going hard you'll have to track down the pro version on the high seas, which I couldn't find (though this may be related to the aforementioned dumbassery)

  • akylzytheAnwyn [she/her,comrade/them]tomusic•How the heck do I find motivation/inspiration for music-making when I'm cooped up in my apartment for months on end?
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    4 years ago

    i don't have any One Weird Trick for it, I just try to be methodical: once the melody is sketched out, I figure out a key area that fits and make my own chords that logically fit underneath. it might be totally off but as long as you're finding cadences and modulations you're getting pretty close. once you're down in the trenches of figuring out each chord change there's a lot of trial and error (and as a pianist I can imagine that's easier for you? but I totally get that it's tedious and kind of frustrating)

    and ultimately, if you've gotten close but not quite perfect.. that's okay, it's your cover, it can do whatever you like - just having a full, if imperfect, cover to listen to can really help you hone in using your ear training to find what doesn't quite mesh and then edit those sections

    it's a process though! so just doing any one of these steps on a given day would be awesome, thinking too hard about the End Product really chokes me up especially in this time of uh nothingness tbh

  • akylzytheAnwyn [she/her,comrade/them]tomusic•How the heck do I find motivation/inspiration for music-making when I'm cooped up in my apartment for months on end?
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    4 years ago

    totally agree with everything riffraff has to say (not that I follow those guidelines very well)

    what's helped me recently is upending my usual music-making - i'm classically trained so i've been working with synths in a daw for the first time and that's really broken up a lot of my calcified inability to create. might be cool to write a cover (someone else has done the work of creating the music, now you can just unleash your creativity on it). and finally musical doodles have helped, instead of panicking about not making a Whole Work i'll just write a melody if it comes to mind or transcribe like a weird set of sounds the neighborhood birds/squirrels make - at least getting something on the page tends to help me keep going.

    hope this helps :heart-sickle: