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Where do you go to find Music Composition Work?

A topic by Alexander Emenheiser created Oct 28, 2018 Views: 541 Replies: 2
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Hi! My name is Alex. Creating music for video games is a great passion of mine and I've been doing my best to do it professionally for many years. However, I'm starting to become disenfranchised from it because there just seems to be absolutely no one who wants and is willing to pay for custom game music.

I regularly check forums and subreddits like r/gameDevClassifieds, Newgrounds, TIGSforum, IndieDB, Develteam and various Discord servers and not a single one of them ever say something along the lines of "[PAID] Composer Needed!". It's all just a bunch of abandoned forum threads of hopeful composers throwing their resumes at the wind. Is there a better way composers could seek out work?

I guess another way to phrase this question could be: "Where do game dev studios go to find composers?"

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I hope this doesn't come off as complaining. I am just very concerned about the future of game composition as a way to make a living and I don't know what to do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/9t4xnl/where_do_game_devs_go_to_find_m... 
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