Ben Tibbetts Studio: Piano Performances and Original Music

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Chaos Weapon

Original Soundtrack

"Chaos Weapon" was an RPG by Amadeus Koch, an amateur game developer based in Oklahoma. Unfortunately, it was never finished, but while development was active from 2011 to 2014 Amadeus commissioned me to write music for the game.

I was in college for most of those years and chipped away at the soundtrack during my free time. This often meant that I wrote academic music during the day and produced video game tracks at night. I liked that. It anchored me to a genre that was refreshingly different from schoolwork.

However, if you listen carefully you can hear my academic style bleed into the soundtrack. Chaos Weapon is unusually complex and polyrhythmic for video game music--too much so, I think. Listening to it now I find it too distracting and incongruous with gameplay. I wouldn't approach a soundtrack that way now. I notice that the audio production leaves a lot to be desired, which doesn't help with that problem.

That said, producing this music was an enjoyable experience, and I think some of the tracks came out very well. For example, I love the "Sarah Chimera" tune, which strikes me as quirky and musically clever.

I'm grateful to Amadeus for commissioning me to produce this audio. Even though the game wasn't released, composing these tracks helped me grow musically and I was glad to be a part of this project.

Amadeus and I originally connected through the Game Maker Community forums (which no longer exist). Click here for some of the other music I made for members of that forum.

Download the entire soundtrack (*.zip archive, 53 mp3 files)
Download individual tracks:
1. Inaugural March
2. 123
3. Dust Bunnies
4. Hallway Monsters
5. The Right to Live
6. Small Victory
7. Another Day
8. Community
9. Marketplace
10. Migration
11. Don't Panic
12. Game Over.
13. Greater Adversary
14. Big Victory
15. Save Your Progress
16. Sanctuary
17. The Element Shrine
18. Elemental Foe
19. Deep Dark Depths
20. Conflict is Inevitable
21. Dignity and Ego
22. His musik
23. Secret Antagonist
24. Chaos Incarnate
25. High Spirits on the Mountain Trail
26. The Laboratory
27. Refuge
28. Madness and Thrill
29. Sara's Theme
30. Upper Hell
31. Lower Hell
32. 9th Circle
33. Absolute Bottom
34. Life in the Depths
35. Sol
36. Small Challenge
37. Big Challenge
38. Entering the Armory
39. The Armory
40. From Russia with Hate
41. The Tower Part I
42. The Tower Part II
43. The Zenith
44. Battling Keegan
45. Memories of Home
46. In the Mysterious Crater
47. The Final Battle Part I
48. The Final Battle Part II
49. The End
50. Umbra
51. The Final Battle Part III
52. Credits
53. Sarah Chimera Variation

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