I’ve been delving back through my backlog and checking out some roguelites that I wasn’t done with — or that weren’t done with me…

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• Children of Morta
• Inscryption
• Soulstone Survivors
• Atomicrops
• Nuclear Throne
• Pathogenic
• The Land Beneath Us
• Ember Knights

How many Jeffrey Epsteins and Martin Shkrelis would we have BTW?

Does the music you MAKE sound like the music you LIKE? It’s very easy to make music the way our tools want us/let us work, rather than bending those tools to sound like the artists that we’d hear in a cafe and ask to know who it is. It’s always good to have a specific reference track to compare yours to.

If you have a favorite artist or artists, research everything you can about how they get their sounds. Borrow song structure tricks — most people struggle to turn loops into songs, and your favorite artists probably do this well.