Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC

🎵Composer | Producer | Musician 🎮Music & Sound | #gameaudio design 🔗Music & Links at 👈 | #vgm #bgm 🥰

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

Some music I wrote inspired by a cat game 😺

The game’s aesthetic felt perfect for fingerstyle guitar and elements of folk music—mandolins, lute, banjo, and dulcimers all singing above the pulse of an Irish Bodhrán (frame drum) 🪕🥁

#vgm #bgm #indiegame #gamedev #gameaudio

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

All said, my biggest advice: focus on slow genuine connections, be interested, ask how you can help, and have fun! Also, hand-san & earplugs are a must, the GDC plague is real and afterparties are LOUD!🤧🔊 8/8

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

🎮It’s officially one month since GDC 2025!!! If you’re considering going (or have been before), I'd like to share some thoughts you may find helpful about my first time attending such an insane event with so many cool people! 1/8 #gdc #gdc2025 #gamedev #indiedev #gameaudio

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

While it can be tempting to plan GDC to death, I wouldn’t over-plan at the expense of embracing serendipity and going with the flow. The best events I went to often came after randomly vibing with someone and tagging along! It felt like entering a networking flow state haha. 7/8

[Austin Wintory @awintory]

Friends in Europe, I will be teaching an intensive workshop in Vienna this summer! A deep look at approaching game music, culminating in us recording students' *interactive* cues at the Synchron stage with a world class orchestra! Should be quite fun

https://t.co/e7tBFQCho7

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

@tferriss Antagonist training seems to be the primary habit that helped me most - lots of ring work, pushing and support positions. Definitely a long-term solution but havent had problems the past 8 years of my 10-year climbing journey!

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

what are composers fav piano libraries for scoring? I bought hammers + waves by skybox recently… but for some reason I keep going back to Orchestral Tools’ free felt 🙃🎹 #composer #vst #samplelibraries

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

(VHorns Brass & Berlin harps’ true pedal are also great for their UIs. Unfortunately, most developers place little emphasis on such interfaces).

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

“How are your tools shaping creative decisions?” As a #composer in the #gameaudio #vgm space, I ponder this often, especially regarding UIs. ...

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

This is why I love sample developers such as Ample. Their fretboard UI not only helps non-guitarist composers avoid impossible hand positions, but also functions as a reference/learning tool without requiring an actual guitar. ...

[Alex Moukala @alex_moukala]

In life, nothing is impossible.
Except for @awintory writing a bad melody. Probably never gonna happen.

[Alex Moukala @alex_moukala]

I'm officially composing the soundtrack for this beautiful fantasy game.
Second Stone: The Legend Of The Hidden World.
Here's our reveal trailer!

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

Wrote for guitar using @AmpleSoundNet's free Guitar M Lite VST for its outstanding UI. This way, composing a natural feeling part and transcribing off the animated visual was a piece of cake! The hardest part was simply learning to play it haha

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

Some music I wrote inspired by a cat game 😺

The game’s aesthetic felt perfect for fingerstyle guitar and elements of folk music—mandolins, lute, banjo, and dulcimers all singing above the pulse of an Irish Bodhrán (frame drum) 🪕🥁

#vgm #bgm #indiegame #gamedev #gameaudio

[Jonathan Alexander（蔣智海）🔙 GDC @jonalex_io]

Wrote for guitar using Ample's free Guitar M Lite VST for its outstanding UI. This way, composing idiomatically and transcribing off the visual was a piece of cake! Hardest part was simply learning to play it haha—been nearly 10 years since my Sungha Jung/Tommy Emmanuel phase.