Walto

Better than doing nothing I guess lol. I get like negative interaction here but that might be because I hardly post

Make sure to tag your stuff tho, this place has no centralized algorithm so that's really important

Don't wanna post this elsewhere just yet bc it probably still needs work but this is a snippet of one of the best songs I've ever made #vgm

I am beyond happy to announce that my piece was a runner-up in the World of Warcraft Student Competition 2024-25! I poured so much love and effort into this piece, and it means the world to me to see it win!!!

I would have so many points and it wouldn't even be on purpose

Where the actual hell am I

Where the actual hell am I

Not that I mind paying $8, and the plugin does other things, but on principle I don't want to shell out for something so basic...

Walto Quest update: figured out how to add new tilesets & started messing around with battles. The biggest issue is the fact that victory fanfares r classified as a music effects rather than BGM in RPG Maker MZ, which means it won't loop. The theme I made does. There's a plugin to fix it but it's $8

Another Walto Quest update: been slowly but steadily chipping away at the soundtrack between other projects. Just finished a draft of the new battle theme.
I also implemented the first set of custom sprites last night! I also made a character base so I don't need to draw up everyone from scratch

If you're new to my account and have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm gonna be making an RPG Maker game!

If you wanna see more of what I've been up to, I'm primarily a musician. I don't crosspost here bc I have a lot of trouble with videos, but check out my YouTube!
youtube.com/@waltomusic?...

I think the thing I'm going to put the most care into is making sure that it's still a fun experience if you don't know about any of my other work. It's gonna be a giant celebration of all my creative stuff but I wanna make sure it stands on its own as well

I still need to learn RPG Maker but I imagine the curve shouldn't be too steep. I wanna spend a day just watching tutorials

I'm constantly having new ideas! I'm really excited to get to work, I just want to be able to focus on it and nothing else for a period to get it off the ground

Routine post so you don't forget about me

Been picking up pixel art recently in prep for Walto Quest! Having fun, I helped my friend with a Balatro mod

As soon as I get a song the way for another project I'm planning on hunkering down for 2 weeks and focusing on starting WQ development proper

UPDATE: I've figured out what was causing it... for some reason, FL Studio's "wrap remainder" function on export disables Vital's effects???? I can't imagine why that would be, but I figured it might be good to know

Thank you for responding originally by the way!

More info: it is all effects. The only option it's giving me that's related to MIDI assignment is "Learn MIDI assignment" which doesn't seem to do anything at all. I didn't have any automation or midi control tied to anything other than the track volume

I think it's all the effects but it could just be the chorus, I can't really tell. I don't mess w midi mapping but I'll give that a shot when I can

Hey @vital.audio, any ideas on how I could fix this? In FL Studio, instances of Vital will export without their effects occasionally. Reloading the plugin and preset or doing anything else in that vein doesn't seem to work. Here's a comparison between the audio before & after export:

FYI google have now stopped "-ai" working at the end of your search string.

So put this at the end (after a space) instead:

&udm=14

Fuck you #google.

#AI

It depends entirely on the server imo

Also, remind me to ask Omega if he wants to do promotional art once this gets further down the line, because I think his style would suit the project wonderfully!

The main thing that stopped me from getting started on this ages ago is the fact that I didn't think I could do all the art alone, but I've finally made a friend whom I trust enough with my visions to accept their help. Here's hoping we'll have a bit of actual game to show for it in a couple months

To make up for my relative scarcity here, I'll probably use bluesky as the exclusive home of development updates for a while. I don't want too terribly many people knowing about this until it gets a little further off the ground. But I'm really determined to make it a reality!

Update: many concepts are happening! A few songs have been made/remastered, and I've recruited a few people to help where I felt necessary.

As far as actual development goes, I'm planning for it to be in RPG Maker MZ, which I will learn as soon as I have a few consecutive days to fully devote to it

couldn't think of a good frieza stand-in. (it would NOT be mario.)
#dragonball #wario

I love you bsky but you are just not meant for musicians rn

This is packed with references which will be true of all Walto Quest songs

Also it took me a solid 10 minutes of messing around to get this video into a state that bsky would let me post and it sounds like ass

You're already on my list of people to add dw I didn't forget

So... Walto Quest the game might be happening?