Short Circuits
A downloadable soundtrack
I finally got the Magical 8Bit Plug in 2018: Short Circuits is the result. I was curious about 8-bit music for many years before, being a video game person long before a musician, so this was a way to merge my interests.
If you're so inclined, I encourage you to use this music for your project. It would be an honor! I kept thinking of an NES / SNES platformer; something cute and mischievous in the vein of Kirby or Mario, but use it however you see fit.
Most songs have a vaguely synthpop style. Mood-wise most are cheerful, playful or a little chaotic with some mysterious tones here and there (often thes ones involving nature or water, like Raindrop or Regrowth). I mix the 8-bit voices with various fx and external sounds too, often the bitcrusher. Even a piano here and there, including one ("Mountain View") that I think Celeste fans will enjoy.
The loose premise I came up with while composing: 'A tiny gardening robot awakens among hills, rivers and mountains, not remembering an inkling of it’s functions and original purpose. And yet, something draws it to follow some unusually fussy glowflies and amphibians to the rocky mass of the Chrome Citadel, where it will rediscover just what it forgot.'
You can find my other non-8bit music @ https://brev.bandcamp.com
THE COVER:
A collage from Marilyn Roxie made largely from tch.io assets! Many thanks to this site for indirectly helping to make the album possible.
- Aamatniekss - Free Pixelart Platformer Tileset: aamatniekss.itch.io/free-pixelart-platformer-tileset
- Crugger - 2d platformer resources c11: crug63r.itch.io/c11
- MamaNeZakon - Forest Tileset: mamanezakon.itch.io/forest-tileset
- Jaks - Pixel Nature: jaks.itch.io/pixelnature
- La Red Games - Gems Coins Free: laredgames.itch.io/gems-coins-free
- Gum Bot Sprites by GrafxKid https://opengameart.org/content/gum-bot-sprites
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Thank you all for your comments, it's really something looking back here after years and finding such praise, even people using the music! And yeah, the lack of zip uploading was a bit of an accident as I was new to this site lol
Love the 8bit sounding music track, My next game is going to be needing something like this, I will come back and let you know if any tracks were used and where and of course credit you with links to here too, Thank you for your publishing!
Absolutely go ahead. I am thrilled people here are enjoying that much!
Hey, thanks for publishing this album! I used "Mountain View" in a game recently at https://alzhu1.itch.io/eating-floating-fruits, but I think this is a great soundtrack! Lots of good beats, thanks for making this available!
Hi! I'm using this for my latest game, and I'm using 'Into The Mist' as it suited my game best - thank you for the amazing soundtracks available for free, keep it up
Awesome, is this one still online? That's also a track I almost found too simple when I made it, so it's a bit of a confidence boost haha
commercial use?
If you click the more information drop down it says that the license is Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 International which seems to be the license on this website https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
not every person know the right and itch in all. thx
you should probably zip these all up in a zip file for easy acces
Using this for a Game! Thanks so much!
Thank youuu, have you finished or shared this game?
Liberating soundtracks
can i use in commercial project?
These are fantastic, thank you so much for sharing!
You're welcome, so glad that you enjoy :)
do you mind if i use this ones for a game Jam
go ahead, sooo glad you enjoy! just credit me if you publish your work please
ill do thanks a ton