Alora Fane

I said I'd put up more music albums, so here's the first of 2022: the soundtrack to Memody: Sindrel Song, my first Steam/3D/Unity game that broke so many records with how well it sold and was received!!

Bandcamp link: [LINK]

This is the same OST that you can get from Steam, which is why I didn't put it on Bandcamp earlier, though I don't suppose it would have made any difference really.

I have mixed feelings about the game itself - I recently replayed it, and meant to write a blog about those feelings, but... ehh, will I ever get around to that? - but I am quite proud of the music.

It's unusual, though; since the game uses music as its gameplay, the main pieces in this OST take the form of a series of short phrases, played using a limited selection of notes, each of which is mimicked by a 'voice' instrument, as the player would have to in the game.

I think they work okay as standalone pieces you can just listen to in the background, though. I've listened to this quite a lot while working, and it's helped me to focus.

My favourite pieces are Vivace's and Course's songs, though I also like Memody's Sindrel Song a lot too!

I'm also experimenting this time with something I've been wondering about for a while, which is putting an album on YouTube. Here's this one on there:

Being on YouTube means there's at least a very slim chance it'll get noticed - more than it being on Bandcamp, anyway - though with this one, I'm not expecting much. I'll be surprised if it gets more than 100 views! Which is a shame since it took a couple of hours to set everything up - it was way slower than I expected it'd be just to export a video with only a static image for visuals, then I decided to use YouTube's 'chapters' feature to list the tracks in the description, which was tedious - but I'm seeing this as practice, much like the game itself was, I suppose. Just getting used to the process.

I've still got a few more albums I want to upload, so hopefully I'll be able to do one a week! Maybe every Sunday?

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