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Thanks, and good luck with the game! You have a cool aesthetic going there and I'm a fan of deckbuilders in general. I'm glad you found my music useful!

Yes, with an exception. All of the tracks except the 'theme' tracks are set up for looping. So, the battle, dungeon, and town tracks loop.

The .ogg format tracks are the ones to use, as they seamlessly loop. The .m4a tracks are included because one of the publishers I go through requested that format, but due to technical limitations of the format, those do not seamlessly loop.

Thanks! I should probably make a second volume of sci-fi sounds, since it's been a popular pack for me over the years.

Thanks! I'm always glad to hear that the music is useful. Good luck with your western!

You might find some D&D-worthy stuff in the soundtracks I've composed for games, over at https://joelsteudlermusic.bandcamp.com

the Kingdom Wars albums and Winds of Change are all medieval/fantasy oriented. No metal in there, though.
I'm definitely not done with Cursed Kingdoms. I like that style mix too much to never return to it. Thanks again!

Thanks! I'm really glad you found some unconventional uses for that track. I've always enjoyed mixing metal and dark folk fantasy in the Cursed Kingdoms sets. I'd really like to make more. Game assets barely sell these days, but I think I am destined to revisit Cursed Kingdoms eventually regardless.

Yep, that is correct. It's an art pack with a bonus music track. It just happens to be the only real 'Star Trek' styled track of music in my catalog. If the art isn't useful for you, and since you're not on Discord, drop me an email at steudler1 @ gmail.com  (just omit the spaces) or sign up for free on my Patreon and message me there, we can work something out. I'll never get why itch doesn't have a private message feature.

Thanks for the compliment! The answer to your question is a bit surprising, perhaps, but... I don't specifically have a Trek-style pack. This is sort of ridiculous since I do love Trek (DS9 being my favorite). My Sci-Fi and Futuristic Atmospheres packs are more modern. There is one track included with my Cosmic Frontiers Backgrounds pack that is very Goldsmith trek-styled, you can hear it in the trailer. And I'm currently working on a pack of 'Classic Sci-Fi' more in the 1950s style, but that won't be out for a bit. Are you on Discord? Ping me there, name: joelsteudler   and we could potentially work something out to get you set up.

Good luck with your game! I hope the music fits and you find a good use for it. Let me know what you think once you've had a chance to put the tracks into action.

Thanks very much for the compliments! It is always great to hear when my music hits the right... note...

The financial realities of game asset music packs are pretty grim presently, so I have had to scale back all plans across the board, but I'll never say never. In the meantime, my 8-bit pack does feature SFX, though they are of course geared to the older console generation. Not completely off the mark, though. My Retro Fantasy packs are musically in the ballpark of the 16-bit ones, too, though use more of a PS1 era soundset. 

Nice work on the game! I got to the desert area before the monsters got me. I like both the deckbuilding and dice mechanics. It would be fun to see that idea expanded into a full game.

Thanks for the compliment! I'm glad it fits with what you're making. Good luck with your game!

Thanks very much for your comments, I appreciate the support! I... really ought to get that Pirate pack up. Inspiration is not the factor holding me back from producing more such music. Unfortunately the commercial reality for game music asset packs is pretty grim currently, for a variety of reasons. I'd enjoy composing more game asset packs, but have had to focus on other work. Even so, I'd like to offer more game music, and if Humble Bundle is on board I'll be offering another large bundle of atmospheric music that could work in games, coming up sometime early next year (assuming HB is cooperating). It's good to know the game music still has an audience, though!

That's a very cool looking game, great art style and a very unusual theme. I'm glad the music fit! I hope people check the game out.

Thank you! I'm always glad to hear someone has found good use for my music. Adventure games are a great genre to have prominent music in. I haven't played a whole lot of them, but The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: Chronicles are among my favorites, and had great music.

Congrats on completing your jam entry and good luck on your future projects!

Thanks for asking! No, the Town and Village pack is a wholly separate set of tracks, and is not as specific with instrumentation as the Medieval one, which focuses on period instruments. The Town and Village pack has a lot of guitar in it, which still carries the feel of an older era, but the Medieval pack uses lute, psaltery, zither... I think I had zither in there. Medieval instruments. 

Though your question reminds me that some of my older packs like this one don't have a full playlist of all the tracks on SoundCloud. I should really fix that, and will at some point in the hopefully not too distant future.

My Grand Adventure pack has a couple South American flute based tracks. You can hear one of them here. There's a clip from another in the video trailer for the pack...

They might look similar to you, I haven't seen your fractals so I can't be any judge of that. What I can be a judge of is whether they are fractals I generated, right on my computer, which they very much are. Here is a video where I have opened one of the fractals you picked out in Chaotica, I navigate around it, change some random parameters, and have a whole different look at the end. This would literally be impossible to do if I had taken the image off of wherever you had it displayed. If I really have to do this for the other one, I will, though I'd prefer not to waste the hour or so of it takes to let it all render out to begin with, create the video, edit, upload etc.

I did not take your fractals.

I have not taken art from any Deviant Art site or any artist on any site, period. Name the two pieces you feel are stolen and I will make a video of me opening each fractal in Chaotica or Amberlight, navigate around the fractal, and show you my 5000x5000px original render of each of those fractals. I did not see, use, scrape, or otherwise have any knowledge of you or your work. The fractals in this pack and the previous one were created mostly in Chaotica, a few in Amberlight, and modded/tweaked in Photoshop. 

It is possible that we arrived at similar looking fractals, that is hardly impossible since there are a lot of transforms that look good in combination or produce similar results. I have not stolen your fractals, or even seen your fractals.

Here, have a look at the directory of source originals for this second volume of Aethereal Planes. I have every single fractal here in both its Chaotica file and the full-sized 5000x5000px render. They are a product of my work.

I don't have a whole lot of distinctly South American music. There are a couple tracks in my Grand Adventure pack like this one:
https://on.soundcloud.com/3WntUhVpGgkdhh468

there are a few that are creepy, a couple that are more generally atmospheric. And a lot of the pack is more typical cinematic music, but watch the video trailer, too, and you'll hear a few clips in that style.

Thanks! The pirate pack is one of the few that I never ported over from other platforms. And the reason is... there actually is no particular reason. I really ought to do that. Even though it is a very old pack it still has one of my favorite tracks in it. I wish there was a commercially viable reason to compose another whole new Pirate pack, it's fun music. I'll try to get the original one over here soon.

Hi Kenku, that is a rather troubling claim you are making against me. I have never heard of you, never seen your fractals, and additionally, I have the original files for Chaotica, Flame Painter, and Amberlight that I used to generate each of the fractals in this pack (and the precursor). I can say with great certainty that I have not used anyone else's fractals in my packs, including yours.

Your ears have my gratitude! I hope the rest of your body aligns in accord with your ears, and I also wish you good luck with your game!

A wise choice, as that is how they were intended to be used! We created the Doomsday setting as part of a shared asset thematic concept. I'm glad you feel they fit well together!

Thanks! I am often inspired by great oldschool RPGs, so I'm glad I captured that spirit. Good luck with your game!

That was a fun little game! I enjoyed how the music choice at the end made the mimics seem so cultured as they sat around a table full of grey goblin. Great work!

Thanks very much! 

Yes, they do. Thanks for asking!

Thanks for your compliments, and also thanks for pointing out that sighting of my music! I didn't know about that one. It's really great to hear that my music added to the game's appeal.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy the music, and I wish you good luck on any projects you use it in.

Yes, you are free to use that music in any media you produce! The only thing you may not do is claim copyright on the music itself, or enter the music in YouTube's adrev program. But you can use it in videos, trailers for your game, any of that.

Good luck with the VN! I'm glad you found a use for the sounds.

It took me something like forever... perhaps those tales never were meant to be told!!  Or... perhaps I should have released it a while ago. But finally, Untold Tales is available here on itch!

https://joelsteudler.itch.io/cursed-kingdoms-untold-tales

At long last, the tales can be told. Thanks for prodding me to release it! It took a little longer than expected, but Untold Tales is out.
https://joelsteudler.itch.io/cursed-kingdoms-untold-tales

Oh man... I... kind of forgot about those Untold Tales! Perhaps that is why they have remained untold for so long. I really ought to do that. I wish that game asset music sales were better so I could focus more energy on this side of things, since I do enjoy making the packs a lot. Just as a TMI explanation of process, when I do a full illustration for a cover it requires about 8-10 hours of extra work. Perhaps I will just use a 'nicely set logo' cover and get it released, along with the three Doomsday packs I have waiting to go up.

...technically, I can still even do it before the end of the year!

Excellent use of the music! Good luck with your podcast. I hope your listeners find it frightfully entertaining!

They are looped, aside from the 'themes' category. That's a standard of all my packs. 'Themes' have a definitive end, and the rest of the categories are looped. Additionally, since the packs contain .ogg and .m4a formats, and .m4a format cannot seamlessly loop, you technically get a non-looped version there and the .ogg files which do loop seamlessly.

Thanks on both counts! Ares definitely inspired action and aggression... mythology can definitely rock.

Thanks very much! I'm glad you enjoyed the music!

Thank you! I really appreciate the support and kind words.