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YouTube video by VIUS Studios Let's give your audience goosebumps. (Sai Natarajan – 2025 Showreel)

I'm on a quest to give your players goosebumps. You in?
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Thanks Hew! <3

YouTube video by SOUNZ Centre for NZ Music SAI NATARAJAN: A Beacon in the Cosmic Blizzard

I've had my orchestral music performed live quite a few times by this point, but for the first time ever, I FINALLY have some professionally-produced video evidence! A huge thank you to SOUNZ, RNZ Concert, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for making this happen <3

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Cheers Chris! Yes we really need to catch up - I'll let you know when I'm in town next 🤙

I unfortunately had to deliver this presentation over Zoom due to illness, so my musical examples get a bit butchered in the recording – to address that, links to the original pieces have been included in the video description!

YouTube video by NZGDA Giving Your Players Goosebumps: The Game Dev's Guide to the Orchestra | Sai Natarajan | NZGDC 2025

How do you convey the complexities of creating orchestral game music to a room of (mostly) non-musical game developers?

Simple: You break it down like it's a video game 🎮

Watch me do just that during my talk at NZGDC 2025:
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If you're going to #PAXAUS as part of #MIGW then you MUST check out the NZ CODE stand. I've seen every single game on show and if you can't find something you like then I'm afraid you are clinically dead.

#PAXAus is tomorrow! Our booth is all set up, bugs all squished, cards all printed, and we're not allowed to share any photos :P

Really looking forward to catching up with so many old and new friends over the next three days. Please come to #1840 and say hi to Jevon, Sai & Cass!! <3

Nice to be back at #NZGDC. Great solid specific #gameaudio presentations from @vius.bsky.social and #NZSO ‘s Claire Wackrow this morning, and so nice to have those conversations with dev teams and audio friends.

YouTube video by VIUS Studios Per Ardua Ad Astra (Menu Theme) — Feat. The European Recording Orchestra

Haven't gotten to write soaring string melodies like this in a LONG while.

Excited to share my latest piece, written as a one-off menu theme for an unannounced video game currently in development! Huge thanks to the European Recording Orchestra for their stunning performance 🎶

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Hans seems to really dig the final edit. Totoro… might need another minute to think about it.

Absolutely stoked with the end result from my recording session with the European Recording Orchestra – full video dropping tomorrow!

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YouTube video by IGN Adaptory - Official Trailer | gamescom 2025

Pretty crazy seeing some of my music make its debut on the official @ign.com YouTube channel this week!!

Check out the latest trailer for #Adaptory here, and go show @stormcloak.games some post-Gamescom love <3

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Adaptory at Gamescom 2025, statistics: 404 games started 14849 tiles dug 6590 buildings built 287 artefacts found 233 meteors 835 diary entries 143 dead explorers 93 distress calls transmitted

Over five days, we had over 400 people play #Adaptory at #Gamescom 2025! And almost a quarter of the crews were saved <3 #indiedev #statistics

Getting to work with the European Recording Orchestra last night was a lot of fun. My very first remote session!

Doing a bit of last-minute proofreading, in preparation for a little recording session 👀

HELL YEAH

Cheers buddy! Still in disbelief hahah

Too true hahahah – tysm!!

A screenshot of the European Recording Orchestra's website, showing the Top 5 picks for the Oceania region. The names on the list are: - James Brew (Australia) - Sean Brown (Australia) - Otto Gibbs (Australia) - Sai Natarajan (New Zealand) - Paul Nicolaou (Australia) Honourable mentions: Matthew Chin from NZ, Jordan Stevenson from NZ, and Arie Madden Welti from Australia.

I was shocked when it made the top 5 list… but OCEANIA WINNER????

WHAT????????

I'm actually screaming.

Also fun fact, the piece I submitted was recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra just last year. Those recordings should be going up soon, so stay tuned!!

A screenshot of the European Recording Orchestra's Instagram story, reading "Oceania Continental Winner: Sai Natarajan (New Zealand)."

Okay sooo, CRAZY turn of events: Back in March, I stumbled across a global composer competition hosted by the European Recording Orchestra, and submitted one of my pieces on a complete whim. No expectations.

That piece was just announced as the Oceania region winner.

WHAT.

The @shyftrs.com team just dropped a brand new teaser trailer, with some updated music from yours truly! Go show them some love 🔥

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Promo image for Adaptory, as part of Indie Arena Booth 2025: Play me at Gamescom hall 10.2.

Very excited to share that Adaptory will be at #Gamescom 2025 with #IndieArenaBooth this year!!! Thank you once again, @nz-code.nz <3 Please pop by and say hi if you're there!

(300k+ visitors over a single week: it's gonna be an experience 😅)

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Sai is an incredibly talented musician and we are very very lucky to get to work with him 💖 can't wait to release this track!! #gamedev

Blue NZ sky with clouds above the blue Pacific ocean. A wooden path leads down through green trees and bush. Someone is walking down the path.

@betkataels.bsky.social and I recently moved home to New Zealand and we are looking for work!

If you have, or know of, a role in NZ or that can be worked remotely from NZ please get in touch.

Adaptory on Steam Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figu...

Be sure to check this awesome game out here: store.steampowered.com/app/2201620/...

I've always loved trying to find those catchy, expressive melodies that make players' spirits soar at key moments. Here's a little sneak peek at how I've been putting together one such tune for the game Adaptory!

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Side note, I cannot WAIT to show you some of the music I've been cooking up for this awesome game 🔥