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Hop’n + Bop’n (upcoming)

Medium:  videogame
Role: lead composer
Date: 2025 Leading and collaborating with a team of six composers, I am delighted to bring Balbod’s upcoming videogame Hop’n + Bop’n to life. Presented as a series of mixtapes, the levels are named after and inspired by classic tunes of previous decades.

This trailer features my music for the level “Keep On Running!” Dive into a rhythmic adventure in this dynamic 3D platformer! Navigate over 30 levels filled with challenges that sync with the music. Run, jump, slide, and slam your way through, while uncovering secrets and dodging hazards in a uniquely musical experience.
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Project G.R.A.B. (2024)

Medium:  videogame
Roles: composer, sound designer
Date:  August 2024
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Created as an entry for the 2024 Robot Party Jam, Project G.R.A.B. is a simulation game in which the player controls the hands of a newly-hatched lab creature. 

The soundtrack involves a wide variety of styles, including swing, house, chiptune, punk rock, and nostalgic piano music.
“the music is gonna be stuck in my head for days.”
- @BarrelBot on itch.io

Awake from your embryonic slumber, and begin your journey through the backrooms of The Smoke Box. Will you rise the ranks to become the next official mascot, or will you find an alternate path?

This game requires a controller to play. 

Each joystick controls its corresponding hand (left joystick to left hand), and activating the bumpers makes that hand slap, grab, or push (depending on the level).




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Danger, Flavor, Bizarre Summer! (2024)

Medium:  videogame
Role: composer
Date:   Summer 2024
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Danger, Flavor, Bizarre Summer! is a visual novel created for the 2024 Robot Party Jam.

I worked with Ian Alexander (“AlexanderArts”) and composed four pieces of music that helped set a suspenseful tone for the game. 

“Normally I click through the dialogue in VNs quickly, but I found myself pausing to listen to the soundtrack. Parts of the music made me feel like I was playing Ace Attorney, or some other deep memory from that time. ”
- @Amazeovision on itch.io



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Meg

Medium: stage play
Role: composer
Date: March 2024
Director Catalina Beltrán at Columbia University invited me to compose music for her thesis production of the play Meg by Paula Vogel. 

Collaborating with violist Katya Barmotina, I created an electroacoustic score that featured heavy rock music, elegiac solo viola melodies, “bardcore” pastiches, and modern takes on Renaissance musical styles.
The opening scene of the play

Meg flips the script on Henry VIII and the Tudors. Daughter to the  famous and beloved Sir Thomas More, Meg feels certain that she’ll follow in his steps as a brilliant scholar, with village idiot Will Roper as her trophy husband. But, as family secrets come to light, Meg is forced to question the life her father has cut out for her. Vogel’s comic and cutting feminist vision questions how we construct histories, and who we leave out of them. (Columbia University School of the Arts)

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Medium Levels of Drama (2023) 

Medium: videogame
Role: composer
Date: Summer 2023
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Game developer @Balbod invited me to compose music for his puzzle game entry into the 2023 Robot Party Jam. We won 2nd place out of 27 incredible games created for the contest.
“The new layers of music being added as you progress is amazing, the alternate version for when you’re controlling the ghosts is such a nice touch too.”
@PixelDrake on itch.io



Streamer and host Kyle Bosman focusing on solving a puzzle in the game.
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Drifters (2024)

by Oobie Doobie Movies.


Medium: movie
Primary Role: composer
Other Roles: sound designer
Date: 2024
One grandiose speech and a half-baked plan to find love leaves three friends stranded at sea.



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One Thousand Sleepless Tales (2022)

by Red Cellar Games


 Medium: videogame
Primary Role: composer
Other Roles: sound designer
Date: Autumn 2022
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One Thousand Sleepless Tales is an ongoing fantasy-adventure game initially developed as part of the 2022 RPG Horror Celebration. The soundtrack I composed for the Prologue contains nine unique tracks. Additionally, I designed the sound effects heard throughout the game.


Highlight: “The Forest in Winter”


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Light Hearted (2023)

Medium: videogame
Role: composer
Date: Winter 2023
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Light Hearted Light Hearted is a short and sweet narrative videogame developed as a part of a 2023 RPG Jam.


Highlight: “Flowers... for a girl!”


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Shy Girls (2022)

by Oobie Doobie Movies


Medium: movie
Role: composer
Date: 2022
 Four college girls’ night of partying is rear-ended when their Uber driver flees the scene of a hit-and-run.




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