A chiptune cover

zath — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:58:51 +0000

Figured I’d post something I did a few years back for a game that didn’t really come out (but gave those of us who were working on it a lot of amusement). My contribution was all of the chiptune covers of 80s (or not) songs. Here’s one of them:

Everybody Wants To Chip The World

On reflection, we probably would have needed to get permission from the original bands before distributing the game. Eh!

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zath — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:42:13 +0000

So a friend of mine emailed me last night and said “Please make a 20th century style Nintendo piece” and then mentioned a ton of genres that the game should fill such as adventure / action / puzzle / survival horror / RPG / FPS / MMO etc.

20th Century, eh? Like the nerdiest, difficult listening music. Set theory, 12-tone rows..

So! Cutting to the chase, I stayed up a few hours past my bedtime and made a 12-tone row Nintendo piece. I call it NINTENROW.

(ah, hahaha.)

Anyway, it’s an overworld/area map and then it steps into pause mode, and then battle mode… and a little victory ditty before going back to the overworld/area map.

I used the following row: C F D# G# A# G D A B E F# C#
and its inversions and retrogrades.

I feel so nerdy right now, it’s awesome.

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A chiptune cover

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