Music at 8bitcollective
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:14 pm
I thought someone had mentioned this on the top Jolt Country blog page, but I can't find it now. Just noting in case anyone hasn't checked it out yet...
8bitcollective (8bc.org) is an excellent source for music for "retro-style" games like ACK games, and a lot of the music is in the "80s-style RPG" vein anyway, so it is definitely worth taking a look at if you are not planning to compose your game music yourself. It's chiptune-synthesized music, so most of it is reminiscent of 80s/90s game systems from NES on up. Lots of excellent, excellent stuff on there.
The best part is that they enforce a consistent license for uploaded files (Creative Commons) so you can use anything from the site for noncommercial games as long as you include a link to the artist's page in your game distribution.
One that I found there is a cover of the Portal 'Still Alive' ending song in 8-bit style; this almost makes me want to do some sort of ACK rehash of Portal just so I could play this over the ending messages/credits:
https://8bc.org/music/Scaliper/Portal-S ... +Cover%29/
8bitcollective (8bc.org) is an excellent source for music for "retro-style" games like ACK games, and a lot of the music is in the "80s-style RPG" vein anyway, so it is definitely worth taking a look at if you are not planning to compose your game music yourself. It's chiptune-synthesized music, so most of it is reminiscent of 80s/90s game systems from NES on up. Lots of excellent, excellent stuff on there.
The best part is that they enforce a consistent license for uploaded files (Creative Commons) so you can use anything from the site for noncommercial games as long as you include a link to the artist's page in your game distribution.
One that I found there is a cover of the Portal 'Still Alive' ending song in 8-bit style; this almost makes me want to do some sort of ACK rehash of Portal just so I could play this over the ending messages/credits:
https://8bc.org/music/Scaliper/Portal-S ... +Cover%29/