it's just a matter of doing "upload a new project" in the interface on the upper right corner
then classifying it as "album or soundtracks"
and then doing a file upload similar to someone uploading a game.
and then once you tell it whether AI was involved (there's a little mandatory question)
you can save it as public instead of a draft
I've been on Itch from July 2024 as only a musician for 8 months until starting to also do games in March 2025 which was a slow process so my being only a musician effectively spanned more like 14 months before really coding hard.
Good to meet a fellow musician on here!
If you choose there are tons of music jams on here where submissions compete for ratings (for many of us, it's more for the socializing and networking but there are also those who actually make revenue at this).
Cheers!
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Very kind of you! I'll give that a look as soon as I can.
Good point about the AI part, since they are chiptune conversions of acoustic tracks recorded a long time ago. I'll make a note of that.
Likewise! I've mostly played rock and indie acoustic stuff in the past (with and without a band), but I've always loved the indie game dev scene. So it would be cool to help someone out instead of the melodies "gathering dust".
I'm all for networking/socializing, I don't have any plans for revenue or that sort of thing. I'm happy with just sharing. Would be cool to hear some of it in a game project at some point.
Thanks :)
Wow, fantastic chiptune vibe. Also loving the 8-bit sound mixed with analog guitars. I stuck my toes for into the genre for the first time since the 90s with a tune I called Chiptune Baroque, but I guess that's more of an homage than a pure 8-bit sound piece :P
May I ask what software do you use to create your tunes? Is it a regular DAW with plugins, or do you use old school trackers? Sorry if I come across a bit nosy. Just genuinely curious :O
Hey Garman! Not nosy at all, glad you like the tunes. Awesome that you dove into the genre, I love the Chiptune Baroque track. I could imagine slaying some vampires in an old castle to it xD. I can hear the rigidity that you mention, ties well into 8-bit imo.
As mentioned in my initial post, and my reply to exedexes, these are conversions of acoustic melodies, so just to curb your enthusiasm a bit they are generated in Suno. My old bandmate and I usually work in Cubase and GarageBand for our acoustic and alt. rock tracks (the sources of these chiptune conversions), but the chiptune versions are prompt-based, although heavily modified after an intensely fun day playing around with it.
Since we had such a blast with it, we did talk about if we should dig out our old synths from our respective storage units and re-recreate these conversions into "analog" versions. For now, I was just thinking they would be fun to share for free to indie devs to play with. As mentioned earlier, I'm not a professional or have any commercial interest, just an indie game nerd who would like to give back :P
Now that you mention DAW with plugins, it reminds me that we did try that once way back, must be at least 10 years ago, but I can't remember the names of those DSP plugins anymore (I'm old...).
"I'm old..." Hahaha, I feel you on that one. I guess the 8-bit retro love comes from the source at the beginning of the thing, right?
Thanks a million for checking my work out and for your kind comment. Chiptune Baroque is my first and only track inspired on that genre so far, but I'm looking forward to expand my portfolio on that direction.
I enjoyed reading the whole story behind your tunes. Nothing wrong with that, really. It's amazing what one can do nowadays with just text, and I love that you guys have fun with it. That said, I believe that analog synth sound would be a true step up. I would really encourage your bandmate and yourself to give it a shot some day! In the meanwhile, I'll see you around and I'll keep an eye for new post from your side. Cheers
Absolutely, C64 and Gameboy all the way as a kid ;) Chiptunes have been my go-to work tunes since forever, so it certainly has stuck.
I'll keep an eye (ear?) out for your new tunes!
Thank you for checkin out my music much appreciated ive subscribed also to yt and hope to hear some of your sounds on a game some day especially toxoplasma of rage
Hi, how is it going? Garman here. I'm a composer specialized in music and sound design for film, video game, and other interactive media through the artistic practice VGM Ireland. Nice to check your links out. Here is mine:
https://soundcloud.com/garmanblue/
Cheers
Hey, enjoyed your tracks,
Placed some in my SC lists and reposted down to my followers.
Gave you an Itch follow on here as well, if you like the thing(s) on my other page(s), consider doing the same.
Cheers!
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Hey, thanks for that. You have a really cool piano style (I specially dig Whimsy Number 1).
I had a single year of piano lessons forty-one years ago at the age of eleven. But had the perfect-pitch gift of being able to transpose anything i figured out, into other keys.
Got kind of smothered in high school by kids that were more forward in band-class so i only sang in choir (then did so again in college in '98-'99).
But always enjoyed synthesizers and knew that if i had one finally with a sequencer built-in that i could teach myself the rest of advanced piano (with my own eclectic style) off going 5 seconds at a time and hitting save then hearing it back to myself.
Whimsy #1 is effectively the start of that, then i just kept grinding making longer compositions, and on the 257th release 18 months into it, started singing vocal tracks (at about 83 vocals now).
Glad you enjoyed!
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