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Thanks very much for your comments, I appreciate the support! I... really ought to get that Pirate pack up. Inspiration is not the factor holding me back from producing more such music. Unfortunately the commercial reality for game music asset packs is pretty grim currently, for a variety of reasons. I'd enjoy composing more game asset packs, but have had to focus on other work. Even so, I'd like to offer more game music, and if Humble Bundle is on board I'll be offering another large bundle of atmospheric music that could work in games, coming up sometime early next year (assuming HB is cooperating). It's good to know the game music still has an audience, though!

That's a very cool looking game, great art style and a very unusual theme. I'm glad the music fit! I hope people check the game out.

Thank you! I'm always glad to hear someone has found good use for my music. Adventure games are a great genre to have prominent music in. I haven't played a whole lot of them, but The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: Chronicles are among my favorites, and had great music.

Congrats on completing your jam entry and good luck on your future projects!

Thanks for asking! No, the Town and Village pack is a wholly separate set of tracks, and is not as specific with instrumentation as the Medieval one, which focuses on period instruments. The Town and Village pack has a lot of guitar in it, which still carries the feel of an older era, but the Medieval pack uses lute, psaltery, zither... I think I had zither in there. Medieval instruments. 

Though your question reminds me that some of my older packs like this one don't have a full playlist of all the tracks on SoundCloud. I should really fix that, and will at some point in the hopefully not too distant future.

My Grand Adventure pack has a couple South American flute based tracks. You can hear one of them here. There's a clip from another in the video trailer for the pack...

They might look similar to you, I haven't seen your fractals so I can't be any judge of that. What I can be a judge of is whether they are fractals I generated, right on my computer, which they very much are. Here is a video where I have opened one of the fractals you picked out in Chaotica, I navigate around it, change some random parameters, and have a whole different look at the end. This would literally be impossible to do if I had taken the image off of wherever you had it displayed. If I really have to do this for the other one, I will, though I'd prefer not to waste the hour or so of it takes to let it all render out to begin with, create the video, edit, upload etc.

I did not take your fractals.

I have not taken art from any Deviant Art site or any artist on any site, period. Name the two pieces you feel are stolen and I will make a video of me opening each fractal in Chaotica or Amberlight, navigate around the fractal, and show you my 5000x5000px original render of each of those fractals. I did not see, use, scrape, or otherwise have any knowledge of you or your work. The fractals in this pack and the previous one were created mostly in Chaotica, a few in Amberlight, and modded/tweaked in Photoshop. 

It is possible that we arrived at similar looking fractals, that is hardly impossible since there are a lot of transforms that look good in combination or produce similar results. I have not stolen your fractals, or even seen your fractals.

Here, have a look at the directory of source originals for this second volume of Aethereal Planes. I have every single fractal here in both its Chaotica file and the full-sized 5000x5000px render. They are a product of my work.

I don't have a whole lot of distinctly South American music. There are a couple tracks in my Grand Adventure pack like this one:
https://on.soundcloud.com/3WntUhVpGgkdhh468

there are a few that are creepy, a couple that are more generally atmospheric. And a lot of the pack is more typical cinematic music, but watch the video trailer, too, and you'll hear a few clips in that style.

Thanks! The pirate pack is one of the few that I never ported over from other platforms. And the reason is... there actually is no particular reason. I really ought to do that. Even though it is a very old pack it still has one of my favorite tracks in it. I wish there was a commercially viable reason to compose another whole new Pirate pack, it's fun music. I'll try to get the original one over here soon.

Hi Kenku, that is a rather troubling claim you are making against me. I have never heard of you, never seen your fractals, and additionally, I have the original files for Chaotica, Flame Painter, and Amberlight that I used to generate each of the fractals in this pack (and the precursor). I can say with great certainty that I have not used anyone else's fractals in my packs, including yours.

Your ears have my gratitude! I hope the rest of your body aligns in accord with your ears, and I also wish you good luck with your game!

A wise choice, as that is how they were intended to be used! We created the Doomsday setting as part of a shared asset thematic concept. I'm glad you feel they fit well together!

Thanks! I am often inspired by great oldschool RPGs, so I'm glad I captured that spirit. Good luck with your game!

That was a fun little game! I enjoyed how the music choice at the end made the mimics seem so cultured as they sat around a table full of grey goblin. Great work!

Thanks very much! 

Yes, they do. Thanks for asking!

Thanks for your compliments, and also thanks for pointing out that sighting of my music! I didn't know about that one. It's really great to hear that my music added to the game's appeal.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy the music, and I wish you good luck on any projects you use it in.

Yes, you are free to use that music in any media you produce! The only thing you may not do is claim copyright on the music itself, or enter the music in YouTube's adrev program. But you can use it in videos, trailers for your game, any of that.

Good luck with the VN! I'm glad you found a use for the sounds.

It took me something like forever... perhaps those tales never were meant to be told!!  Or... perhaps I should have released it a while ago. But finally, Untold Tales is available here on itch!

https://joelsteudler.itch.io/cursed-kingdoms-untold-tales

At long last, the tales can be told. Thanks for prodding me to release it! It took a little longer than expected, but Untold Tales is out.
https://joelsteudler.itch.io/cursed-kingdoms-untold-tales

Oh man... I... kind of forgot about those Untold Tales! Perhaps that is why they have remained untold for so long. I really ought to do that. I wish that game asset music sales were better so I could focus more energy on this side of things, since I do enjoy making the packs a lot. Just as a TMI explanation of process, when I do a full illustration for a cover it requires about 8-10 hours of extra work. Perhaps I will just use a 'nicely set logo' cover and get it released, along with the three Doomsday packs I have waiting to go up.

...technically, I can still even do it before the end of the year!

Excellent use of the music! Good luck with your podcast. I hope your listeners find it frightfully entertaining!

They are looped, aside from the 'themes' category. That's a standard of all my packs. 'Themes' have a definitive end, and the rest of the categories are looped. Additionally, since the packs contain .ogg and .m4a formats, and .m4a format cannot seamlessly loop, you technically get a non-looped version there and the .ogg files which do loop seamlessly.

Thanks on both counts! Ares definitely inspired action and aggression... mythology can definitely rock.

Thanks very much! I'm glad you enjoyed the music!

Thank you! I really appreciate the support and kind words.

Disabling auto-showing of SoundCloud playlists directly hurts my ability to sell my music packs on itch. It is not obvious at all to visitors that the new 'click to enable embeds' thing will display a SoundCloud playlist. Forcing people to click on a thing they don't immediately understand in order to display a thing they don't know is available is really... bad. I understand the security concerns you're facing, but if those security concerns aren't coming from SoundCloud playlists, please find a way to enable them to auto-display again.

Maybe you could add a custom-built field in the product creation template that is specifically for SoundCloud playlists similar to how you have one for a trailer video. To be effective at all, those playlists really need to auto-display. There are a lot of soundware creators on itch, and as it stands the current change hurts all of them.

The good news is I can solve your immediate problem and give you the content. I unfortunately have no direct dealing with Steam, that's all through Komodo, the publisher, but I'll bring this up to them. In the short term, though, I'm happy to give you a key for a download here. Are you on Discord? Message me at JoelS#2352 on there, or email me at joel @ joelsteudlermusic.com (might get caught in spam, which is why I prefer Discord) and I'll get the pack over to you.

Hey, that's a cool use for the music, and I'm really glad you find it appropriate and worthwhile. I'm a fan of tabletop gaming, having played many such games myself (White Wolf stuff, Shadowrun, Robotech, D&D). In order to part you from more money thank you for your kind words, I have just set up a Creator Day Sale:  https://itch.io/s/91249/march-modern-madness-creator-day-sale and the cool part is that in addition to a bundle price, the packs are individually discounted, so if you have some spare cash, you can get this one for half off this weekend!

Wow, all of it? I hope you're rich! Or that you get rich. But I wouldn't want to leave you with no money, so you'd better keep at least some to pay the rent and eat. For now, I'm happy you found these packs to your liking, and will gladly accept your purchase of them. Thanks for your support!

That's a neat demo! It took me a moment to figure out 'E' exits the inventory, but I eventually earned the diamond reward. Good work, I hope you continue with it.

Absolutely, yes! Please do.  Good luck with your visual novel and podcast!

Thanks for the purchase and good luck with your game! It's always great to know people find the right fit for their vision in my music. Drop me a link to your game when you're ready, if you like.

btw, I hope you're well, and are still building your game!

Thanks! They were fun to make. I will probably end up making another set of them eventually. I hope you find good use for them!

Resolution to the mystery: I may not have intended to include War Room in the pack, as it was supposed to be 5 tracks, 5 ME for $5, but I'm listing it as a bonus track and now the download has both the .m4a and the .ogg in it, giving the pack six total music tracks.

So, you and anyone else can just re-download to grab the .ogg (which loops better than if you were to make an .ogg of the .m4a)

Thanks for catching that! This pack was kind of an oddity. A very long time ago it was an exclusive in a Humble Bundle, but years later the rights to it were returned to me and I listed it here, so it's sort of obscure. I guess that track omission slipped past my QA team, which consists of... me! So I will give myself a stern talking to, and will fix this up in the morning.

Excellent, thank you! I'm glad you and others enjoy it, since it's fun music to compose. Hopefully more to come!