Category: News
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MechSounds Update – 13 Apr 25
Hey everyone, I’ve just updated the MechSounds sample pack to include my additions since December last year. I haven’t released a new track with those additions yet (getting back into the swing of things after some significant career changes – more on that another time), but I figured it was worth sharing the updated version…
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minimal_worlds_ii album out now!
minimal_worlds_ii is now completed, and the full album can be downloaded via the Albums Page! Along with the first minimal_worlds, this is a world of Game Boy music ready to be explored. As always, all tracks are Public Domain + project files are available from the individual track pages. Enjoy!…
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🌸 floralmusicplayer
So I’ve learned what I needed to from my first mini-project – a tiny GBA-style mp3 player, built in Godot! I’ve put dev on hiatus to switch to some projects with more specific benefits, but the core functionality and UI is there, and it’s all open under MIT + Public Domain licenses. https://codeberg.org/johnoestmannmusic/floralmusicplayer-godot …
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A slight pivot in direction
The announcement I just made, as on social media:“FYI: So, examining where the world is heading, I’ve decided that one of the best things I can do is upskill to develop free open-source software. I will still be making music for games, as well as my own music – just releasing a little less often.…
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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!
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
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/foxandshadow/fox-and-shadow …
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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
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](https://johnoestmannmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/logo.png)
[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!
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
minimal_worlds full album is now available for download! https://johnoestmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/minimal-worlds https://archive.org/details/minimal_worlds…