A practical breakdown of adaptive music for developers — location-based systems, intensity layers, RTPCs, switches/states, and why stock music falls short.

Not a musician? You still know how to talk about music. Learn how emotion, story, and texture can guide creative collaboration with your composer.

Using Wwise's randomized subtracks to turn a short musical idea into an endlessly evolving exploration loop — theme-and-variation composing meets game audio implementation.

A love letter to Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series: my original score for Gideon the Ninth's opening cinematic, imagined as a video game that doesn't exist yet.

Revisiting a 2023 track with fresh ears — and fresh skills. A breakdown of what changed in instrumentation, reverb, timing, and mix balance two years later.