Okay, this project was a bit weird. It started out as some essays I wrote, not intending to have the overall message it did. One thing led to another and… you’ll just have to watch. Or you can listen to the extracted music on Spotify, or purchase it from Bandcamp.

This project started out with me goofing around at the piano and with a VST. Then I decided to compile all the ideas into this. Basically the way “Alternate Universe Video Game Music” works is that I pretend a game existed which didn’t, and then write its soundtrack. This soundtrack was generated pretty off-the-cuff and there’s not a ton of cohesion. Yes, the title is a deliberate pun on Final Fantasy, but the project is not meant to be an alternate version of FF. In fact, I feel like this album in particular pulls stylistically from Dragon Quest more than anything. Either way, I’m not trying to make the music indistinguishable from the existing RPGs, only to make it sound like it could have come from that era.

In 2012 I was the composer for a children’s musical performed by one junior high theatre class in Kirkland. It had its one performance and then it sat on my shelf. Then in 2018 I went back and re-edited it. At the moment, I’m only putting this blurb here for completion’s sake, as there are no scores or recordings available. Once anything else becomes available, I’ll post it here.

By the summer of 2018 I had a bunch of ideas in my back pocket. All of them were slow and sad tunes. I figured, why not just make a set of slow, sad tunes? I promise this isn’t entirely a troll album, though it is gimmicky and most of the pieces are not designed with a traditional audience in mind. There are seven pieces in the sheet music, I promise. However, I only recorded five of them and I never intend on recording the other two.

At the end of 2017 I started creating another video game project. This time I took a well-known game - Sokoban - and decided to see what I could do if I added one small twist and focused the game very narrowly on that twist. It’s not much, but it’s a nice attempt. The original version was called “Just Boxes and Switches” but I eventually changed it to “Rainbow Sokoban.” That means you might find both names out there. The game is available to download and play if you have a Windows computer. Pre-pandemic I thought I would be iterating a bit more on this, but I doubt I will ever return to this project as-is. At least the music is complete.

There are a lot of buttons here - that’s because I’ve made multiple versions of this and placed them on multiple pages.