Category: News

  • Follow me on Bluesky AND Mastodon!

    Follow me on Bluesky AND Mastodon!

    Hey lovely folks,You may or may not already be following me on Mastodon. I’m a big supporter of Open-Source, Fediverse and decentralized socials. After learning a bit more about Bluesky’s openness, I’ve just joined there too and will be running dual accounts for a while. My pipe dream is that Bluesky switches to ActivityPub and…

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  • a_new_day_in_the_workshop Full Album released!

    a_new_day_in_the_workshop Full Album released!

    You can get the full album from https://johnoestmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-day-in-the-workshop Or individual tracks + project files through https://johnoestmannmusic.com/albums/ …

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  • Fox and Shadow Kickstarter NOW LIVE

    Fox and Shadow Kickstarter NOW LIVE

    Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/foxandshadow/fox-and-shadow …

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  • Fox and Shadow Kickstarter kicking off 23rd October

    Fox and Shadow Kickstarter kicking off 23rd October

    I’ve been working with Paper Cactus Games on our futuristic deck-builder game, Fox and Shadow, for the last couple years. I’ve been creating the music and sfx, and the further we go in, the more bespoke sounds we create. Great news is that our Kickstarter will be kicking off on the 23rd October, so make…

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  • Making Game Worlds with Music – SA Game Dev Talk 2021

    Making Game Worlds with Music – SA Game Dev Talk 2021

    A talk I delivered for South Australia Game Dev Talks in 2021, focusing on compositional and technological approaches to painting a immersive video game soundtrack: …

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  • No FC Magazine for June

    Hi everyone, I am really sorry I wasn’t able to get time to create an issue of Freeware Creator Magazine for June. It was an incredibly busy month for me professionally and personally, and when I went to try and rush it out at the end of the month, I realised my brain simply needed…

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  • [Announcement] Removing my Music from Spotify, etc

    [Announcement] Removing my Music from Spotify, etc

    [Full text below] Hey, So I’ll be pulling my personal music releases from Spotify, Apple Music, and the other streaming services that Distrokid ships to in the next month or so. I’ll explain more below. You will still be able to do the following: Listen to my video game OSTs on streaming platforms, as it…

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  • Game Soundtracks page live!

    Game Soundtracks page live!

    You can now see the video games that I have been making music for. Just click “Game OSTs” at the top of the site!…

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  • Album Release: minimal_worlds

    Album Release: minimal_worlds

    minimal_worlds full album is now available for download! https://johnoestmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/minimal-worlds https://archive.org/details/minimal_worlds…

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