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submission for Impressions Composing Jam: OST #3 hosted by KaleOverlord for Itch.IO November 2025 The text prompt for the jam was "Realms Unseen" I used the concurrent rules for jams to re-use Melty Balrog set in different instruments for the Prologue of the 3-piece set. And then the 2nd and 3rd pieces are careful rearrangements of each other with cut/paste/insertions and some new bridge piece … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vladyčьstva Nevidęštaa (The Invisible Realms of Sovereignty).

Submission to Impressions Mystery Jam #1 hosted by KaleOverlord for Itch.IO June 2025 Instrumental chronicling when Barozek was training with Krodar in Settlestone's Citadel area, before getting whisked away from Jord, later to return to Old Thalos. The loop end-point is simply the end of the piece, it is intended to cleanly loop to the piece's start. A streaming link has been provided below: … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Barozek Trains Under Krodar Thunderhammer.

Assembly Opcode March submission for Tiny Music Jam #2 hosted by Aurora595 for Itch.IO September 2025 a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/assembly-opcodes-march-60sec Note that per usual the outside-Itch-facing version of the track (for example in SoundCloud for our link) is 60 seconds because it has to hit the minimum length requirements for Distroki… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Assembly Opcodes March.

Main website:https://exedexes1.com/The 2nd extended lyrical version of Be More Worried If She Says Yes,  Submission for Music Revision Challenge game jam hosted by 8 Bits To Infinity for Itch.IO in April 2025 This makes it the 4th iteration in the series The full lineage as it were, is as follows: Release XXIX on Rhombus album, on May 20, 2023 https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/be-more-wor… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Be More Worried If She Says Yes (2nd Extended Lyrical Version.

Extended-play album version of my submission for Impressions Composing Jam : OST #2, hosted by KaleOverlord for Itch.IO for March 2025.  It comprises 5 tracks, each one of which corresponds to a painting by Cole in the 1830's-1840's chronicling each historical stage of Empire.   Usual caveat that the MuseScore PDF's have different instruments due to that app's limitations compared to instruments… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Palimpsest of Fallen Hegemony.

Submission for Composer Weekend Jam #11 hosted by JoeChris and ScoringTech.NET for Itch.IO February 2026 Amazing things are happening in the realm of 'how badly can I butcher stanza 4.' This is a chunk of the Eärendillinwë in Old English. Dirhaval was killed in the 3rd kinslaying (Sun-Year 538, as Elrond and his twin brother Elros were 6 years of age) as the First Age of Middle Earth was almost… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Something In Remembrance Of Poor Dírhaval.

submission for OST Album Jam hosted by Grunt October 2025The last piece of the 5 tracks (Eternal Canticle) is where I have the double-challenge of the piece only being a piano piece and an attempt at a Chaconne structure, the other four are not involved in the sub challenges.  The first 3 have mixing issues but I was paranoid with the server troubles and decided to submit a full day early.  There'… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Smells Like Terran Spirit.

submission for OST Composing Jam #8 hosted by lonerabbit for Itch.IO September 2025 Vaguely this game is kind of a black and white or sepia tone visual novel of a 1940's style neo noir where a wife has sabotaged her husband's yacht to blow up but her guilty conscience keeps having her coming back to the pier like some Lady MacBeth type reaction she doesn't hide it very well but nobody has reason … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Age & Treachery.

submission for Composer Weekend Jam #4 hosted by JoeChris of ScoringTech.NET for Itch.IO August 2025 This was begun starting at 5:20pm on the submission day and it was due at 9pm including formatting all the output lol, it probably bears that fact in the quality level but I gave it what I could. a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/sets/alternate-pensi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alternate Pensive Metroid 1 In A Hurry.

submission to Weekly Note Composing Jam #24 hosted by emscottish July 2025 the text prompt for the jam was simply "business venture" a streaming link is provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/bizven main website: https://exedexes1.com/ If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bizven.

Submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #12 hosted by emscottish April 2025. A streaming link is provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/dissatisfaction-expands-to-the-available-s... Okay this one goes way back because the original instrumental track is only the -sixth- in the line up (VI) released in March 2023. I assert that fact that the original is so tiny, it doesn't really… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dissatisfaction Expands To The Available Space (Extended Lyrical Version).

The idea of the game jam's prompt was to evoke a cave. Doesn't specify what kind, could be spelunking alone but I went with a joke that it's a D&D thing where the the adventurer is in the one place that isn't deadly and stuff is closing in. Gelatinous cubes in all directions etc.A streaming link has been provided below:https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/rumbling-cave-submission-for-weekly-note-… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rumbling Cave for WNCJ 3 hosted by emscottish.

Two mp3's are provided the first is the acoustic draft with the piano. The second is of the same length and is the final layered version with synth voices. a streaming link to each is provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/moments-before-disaster-submission-for-wee... https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/moments-before-disaster-submission-for-wee... Douglas P Stoothoff main si… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Moments Before Disaster - submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam 2 for Itch.IO hosted by emscottish January 2025.

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #36 hosted by emscottish October 2025 the jam prompt was simply "Star Gazing" This was a rather simplistic MixCraft layering of what was on the Roland only the piano backbone.  And so also the provided MIDI is that singular piano track. (And the Score PDF likewise) a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/helluins-… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Helluin's Abyss.

submission for One Little Agony jam hosted by M-112 July 2025 a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/film-at-eleven This is approximately tied with Foul-Mouthed Parrot for being the longest vocal track I've ever done, both are approx 9min 20sec This thing in my own assessment is strong in the early to middle but cringe at the end  because of Time constr… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Film At Eleven.

Ballad of Midgaard's Finest Newbie, Edgar The Horrible! The jam called for more of a full album treatment but it was a hard week so I only have the one track. It's decent length though because implicitly it's going to be part of that French jam that has to do with tabletop RPGs which is due in about 12 days (and which also kind of has the concept of a multi-track submission).  Due to concurrency… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ballad of Edgar The Horrible (Abridged).

Out in the wider world beyond itch this (release CCCLXXIX) is the first track of SebēšEšrā album that is not an Alpha Remix of an earlier piece from an earlier album.  In the sense of having a lead-synth contrapuntally darting around (and doing so effectively, and on-the-beat for the most part with very little flaws) this track could be said to be a remote spiritual successor to Fat Bard Contortio… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Crystal Castle - submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam 4 hosted by emscottish.

Ambient 2 Game Jam is about making a banger ambient piece. This Jam's theme prompt called for "Lost City" to be evoked by the music. The MIDI and the MuseScore are of v2 because they are tied to that version - the final, v3, entailed stretching and compressing sections of the aggregate WAV file -after- the multitrack was loaded to the DAW and proper alignment mastering was done and then reassemb… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost City - submission for Impressions Ambience 2 Jam hosted by KaleOverlord January 2025.

Submission to Micro Jam 053 : Isolation hosted by  tommy, 8BitDits · #microjam on Itch.IO February 2026 Herewith, my 17th game on Itch, and i think about the 2nd 3D game instead of 2D that i've ever done. As regards minimal need for mouse: you MAY at times have to single click the mouse "anywhere on the screen" to get focus back but that's more a glitch than necessarily violating the jam … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cask Of Amontillado (Keyboard Version).

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #37 hosted by emscottish October 2025 It's maybe messed up a little by the MixCraft 10.6 global effect i chose at the very last minute with like 20 minutes to go:  but just pretend its like "We're in the late 70's at a Jarre concert in France and we're way at the farthest worst seating in the venue and theres crappy echo on everything. LFG!"  Approached in… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ferromagnetic Frolic.

The Broken Telephone jam series alternates music prompts to make art, and the winning art is used to make a prompt for the music in the next jam following. Therefore this winning art piece from BT-1 is a cute scene with a dragon-like animal and its human friend in a placid environment. I decided to go with sort of a bouncy positive sounding track, in consequence, rather parallel to let's say the c… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gentle Dragon.

The prompt for this game jam was "Quartic Harmony" A streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/el-que-no-transa-no-avanza-ii-weapons-grad... The "fourness" diagram in this music track's cover art is adapted from: Nikolsky, A. (2016). Evolution of Tonal Organization in Music Optimizes Neural Mechanisms in Symbolic Encoding of Perceptual Reality. Part-2: Ancie… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to El Que No Transa No Avanza II + Weapons-Grade Irrationality II.

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam 18 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO May 2025 The prompt for the game jam was simply "Elevator Music" A streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/brass-button-blues-submission-for-weekly-n... The public-domain status of the track art is below: Year book of the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Brass Button Blues.

The jam called for music involving the final fall of a hero like they are dying after losing a fight.  My treatment has kind of the minute or two before the fight begins and then a jump scare and then i went with a short battle sequence and an electric guitar solo reminiscent of when Flash Gordon in the 1980 film was being executed with the poison gas (unsuccessfully as it turned out) to close us … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Hero's Fall - submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam 5 hosted by emscottish.

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #38 hosted by emscottish October 2025 a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/the-yearn-of-a-camelopard-the-turn-of-an-a... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Yearn Of A Camelopard / The Turn Of An Ambiguous Trick.

Judges: the 60 second file was necessary so it can go out on Distrokid.  There is no -new- material past 20 seconds it's just repeated 2 more times. A streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/exedexes1-hells-bells Hell's Bells - submission for Tiny Music Jam #1 hosted by aurora595 for Itch.IO August 2025The submission called for a 20-second composition with … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hell's Bells.

The text prompt for this game jam was "Underwater" A streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/gloomtide-abyssal the art square base graphic element URL for copyright is creative commons because it is JPL which is NASA which is US Government: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23173-enceladus-organics-on-grains-of-ice-ill...main website: https://exedexes1… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gloomtide Abyssal.

submission for Friendly Music Jam 4 Sampling With Friends hosted by Gullo July 2025 The premise was to use at least one sample from 3 or 4 other people and we were free to distort or mod the samples however forbidden to use our own donated samples and then from there to add material that wasn't any sample but manual performances or DAW stuff to stitch an overall collage of a composition. So my a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to William Tell Should've Known Better / Chocolate Dipped Chocolate.

exedexes1's Jam This Album! submission for Itch.IO June 2025 arranged into a four-track EP mini album - the themes chosen were to jam Oxygene by Jean-Michel Jarre from 1978 and the tabletop is SlothMUD had precursor tabletop inspirations in the late 80's before it went live in 1991, regarding Diku to be tabletop because it's so archaic a thing that it is scrolling text based and therefore allowed … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tale Of Edgar And Barozek.

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #16 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO May 2025 art square provenance: the image is a Pixabay public domain royalty free image. a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/sempiternal-skid-canticleDouglas P Stoothoff main site: exedexes1.com/ exedexes1.godaddysites.com/ Youtube subscribe: www.youtube.com/channel/UC… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sempiternal Skid Canticle.

A submission for Crunchtime 04 hosted by LoneRabbit for Itch.IO The bulk of the game is conceived as a strategy game preparing to assault Morgoth in Angband between Mereth Aderthad and the Dagor Bragollach (the test of how well the player has prepared their forces).  The prologue has Annael talking to Tuor about how the Long Peace unfolded, and also what happened to Tuor's mother, Rían, after the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to To Rule There A Realm At Their Own Will.

The game jam's prompt was "Stepping on a Lego" a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/neon-brick-scream-submission-for-wncj-13-h... Douglas P Stoothoff main site: https://exedexes1.com/ https://exedexes1.godaddysites.com/ Youtube subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4WSgBZCySWQ-wAQ0GMtXag?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Neon Brick Scream.

The text prompt for the Itch music jam was "1000 Pigeon Army" : this led to thinking of Liszt's "St. Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds" (composed 1862-1865) for piano. inspired by the saint’s legendary sermon to a flock of birds, which often included doves or pigeons in art and lore. The piece’s delicate, fluttering passages suggest a mass of pigeons taking flight. The slower passages are … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Pigeon General Staff.

Askutron is a trivia game for up to 8 players that can be played with gamepads and/or mobile devices featuring fully voiced questions. In this family-friendly party game you can play thousands of trivia questions in 21 categories with up to 7 friends! You can also find more questions on Steam Workshop, or simply create your own quiz! Questions are read out aloud by our robotic host, Askutron, in… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Askutron Quiz Show.

submission for Gullo's Jamuary 2026, early February 2026 deadline This was a highly structured jam with daily development steps. idea: Sarcastic space marine soldier like Private Joker who sails the seas and roasts zerglings soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/sets/thats-you-only-because-jamuary YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m6HGCYEPlO-lTm-6IB1on5Om83k… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to That's-You-Only-Because.

Submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #25 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO July 2025 This was a relatively straightfoward assignment, obviously honky tonk piano and maybe simple strings like a banjo seemed to be indicated. A streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/buntlines-overcompensated-six-shooter-rag-... The text prompt for the jam was simply "Old … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Buntline’s Overcompensated Six-Shooter Rag.

The text prompt for this was just "Fishing Hole" I went with more of an ambient pad idea for the peacefulness of the activity of fishing like we were doing an early 90's PC game around it as a sport or something.  I remembered the fishing holes in Iceland that Sergeant Smith was smirking and describing as 200 USD a day to get a permit during Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy and that influenced my t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Jökulhlaup Whisper at the Basalt Brink.

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam 14 prompt was "Shop Music" went for a whimsical stop and start rhythm with gaps Probably the closest personal inspiration for this is Boltac's Trading Post in the 8-bit NES of Wizardry I : Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord YouTube of Boltac: a streaming link is provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/elysian-armament-bazaarDouglas … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Elysian Armament Bazaar.

My first breakcore piece, created for the Amen Breakcore Music Jam hosted by Ray Nexus for Itch.IO April 2025 I am just a newbie at this but since the genre itself is very freeform I may get away with what I made being basically in the bounds of breakcores rules(?) You be the judge! a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/0978_doug-stoothoff_wombatDougl… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wombat Glitch.

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #35 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO September 2025. The text prompt for the jam was simply "Cafe". Properly this would have gotten a bass string instrument and some soft tsch tsch tsch drumming cymbals very softly but i looked over and had only 65 minutes left at the end of doing just the piano portion. a streaming link has been provided below: https:/… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Frother You Are From Me, The More Ristretto I Get.

submission for Composer Weekend Jam #5 hosted by Joe Chris (ScoringTech.NET) for Itch.IO October 2025a streaming link has been provided below:https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/march-of-the-long-gones This was a rather complex idea, I noodled a main backbone in piano, then copied that backbone to 2 songs internally to the FA-08 then gave them 2 different studio sets of instruments. Then back … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to March Of The Long-Gones.

A Shiny Non-Euclidean Sarabande - submission for Composer Weekend Jam #3 hosted by Joe Chris of ScoringTech.NET for Itch.IO July 2025 – exedexes1 a streaming link has been provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/a-shiny-non-euclidean-sarabande The music jam prompt was to go find a piece of graphic art and be inspired by it. I chose to take a tour of being slightly influenced (for… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to A Shiny Non-Euclidean Sarabande.

submission for Broken Telephone Jam #8 a streaming link is provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/lilypad-croak-canticle-submission-for-brok...Douglas P Stoothoff main site: exedexes1.com/ exedexes1.godaddysites.com/ Youtube subscribe: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4WSgBZC…ub_confirmation=1 www.youtube.com/channel/UCL0BaYj4…ub_confirmation=1 itch.io profile link: exedexes1.it… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lilypad Croak Canticle.

Playtalons the Uncommon Lover is in honor of Tarn Adams's original Guitar and Flamenco piece which servedas the background for the early versions of Dwarf Fortress prior to it going onto Steam. The name refers to an artifact forged in one of my sessions about nine years ago, an adamantite restraint of the topmost quality level possible in DF. (Usually restraints are used to hold animals to one sp… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Playtalons The Uncommon Lover.

The jam called for "controlled chaos" as its text prompting, so one could think of this as a sequel to Waiting For The Righting of the Gomboc (Release CCCLXIII) with some differences.  And probably also related to Upon Crepuscular Epiphany (CCCLXI) since in both prior cases things called for chaos. A streaming link is provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/octadic-rumpus-scherzoDo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Octadic Rumpus Scherzo.

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A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nightmare Zapping.

submission for Rhombus312's Experimental Album Jam January 2026 "green haze" was the prompt but I kind of ignored it  ....except to say maybe the orcs coming for the Arnor troops are coming out of the mist of the riverbank next to the forest. For the Art i went with kind of Cheesy pixel art like you'd find from screenshots of King's Quest 4-5-6 Era, early 90's whatever i could cobble. It seeme… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Disaster Of The Gladden.

The prompt for this jam was simply "Rainy Weather" A streaming platform link is provided below: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/quagmires-gnomic-rivulet Douglas P Stoothoff main site: exedexes1.com/ exedexes1.godaddysites.com/ Youtube subscribe: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4WSgBZC…ub_confirmation=1 www.youtube.com/channel/UCL0BaYj4…ub_confirmation=1 itch.io profile link: exedexes1.… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Quagmire’s Gnomic Rivulet.

The thirty-first logo-era album division. Ranges through the time of September 6, 2025 to October 2, 2025 soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/sets/sm-r-n main website: https://exedexes1.com/ If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Směrěnъ / Smeren.

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/2077171593&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true A soundtrack written for Lone Rabbit's Composing Jam #8 based on the theme "One Summer Night". All tracks were made using FL Studio. Soundcloud Link: https://on.soundcloud.com/Wox1Jt6cShdIU9… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fleeting Days.