Wow, that's very generous of you. I just took a look, and you've made some fantastic compositions. I'm not sure if I'll ever have the opportunity, but I'd love to make use of this resource one day.

Thanks a lot for supporting the community!

Some amazing stuff on there, it must have taken ages to put all that together.
Thank you so much for giving to the community, I will surly make use of your awesome sounds one day! :)

Hey Eric,

Is there a way to download all pieces at once, through a Torrent file or payment possibly?

Here it comes. You overuse synth pads, to the point most of your music is useless. Your music sounds ridiculous most of the time and I found myself laughing out loud on one track, the name of which escapes me.

Remember that episode of Friends when Ross puts on a performance with his keyboard for everyone else and then they laugh at him? Yeah.

Issues with your compositions:

Melodies aren't memorable.

Overuse of synths - Synths mostly drown out anything else in the track.

There's nothing "Fantasy" about synths, use real world equivalents to fantasy instruments if you must.

If you're the rational type of person who is taking my criticism seriously and not getting emotional and "mad" then you're the type of person interested in improving.

Here's a good video for you 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcNk1wV4eEc - This will help you ALOT. I look forward to your future work if you stop using synths.

On the plus side -

I can see your stuff being useful to moneygrabbing indies who want some quick tracks for their iOS puzzle clone games though.

Regards-

I'm going to criticise the criticism:)

I don't think it's fair to say he shouldn't use synths - I mean yes, perhaps the "fantasy music" section could be labelled "synth music" section, but that's a labelling issue. It's true these pieces don't feature lots of different instruments, or it's hard to hear anything but the synths - if the latter, the volume balance could be improved, if the former, well it is what it is, single-instrument pieces doesn't mean bad.

I also didn't get any connection to the Friends scene at all - that seems an unfair comment, that doesn't explain the criticism, and just seems to make the criticism seem bigger. On the contrary, Ross's performance had all sorts of different sounds, but didn't have anything to them apart from that.

Much of the music I like isn't about "memorable melodies".

From the video, one issue is that the tracks don't seem loopable as well as being fairly short ... OTOH, there's enough of them that one could perhaps feature lots of the in a game to keep up the variation and not need looping (some RPGs do this, play between different tracks rather than constantly looping).

It's a fair point that different aspects of a game can be represented by different sounds, so not everything should be synths. But there's more variation in sound under the other sections (unclear why the "Fantasy" section is also labelled "Game", if all the sections are potentially game music). The video also has the advantage that he already had a particular game to create music for - I imagine it's harder if writing music without a game. Firstly it's simply harder because you don't have that  source of inspiration. But even if you do come of with some music tailored for some imaginary game, you've then significantly limited its appeal - so okay, great, you've written music for a game about singing centaurs, but that's not any good for anything else :) So to some degree, the music will have to be more generic in order to have any chance of being used.

@Kemono:

"Remember that episode of Friends when Ross puts on a performance with his keyboard for everyone else and then they laugh at him? Yeah."

"If you're the rational type of person who is taking my criticism seriously and not getting emotional and "mad" then you're the type of person interested in improving."

If you want your criticisms to be taken seriously, don't phrase them with uneccessary hostility.  Don't be afraid to point out what's wrong and what needs improvement, but there is no need to be a jerk about it.  We try to keep things as pleasant around here as possible.

Only listened to a few songs right now, but it sounds good so far.

Thank you so much for giving these to us!

Eric that's an awesome move. I will make sure to use your music for any upcoming games or applications that I work on. And I will spread the word of your epicness amongst game/web/application developers if I'm not able to donate.

You are awesome! Thanks for doing this :D 

Thanks for sharing, I will let you know if I use any of them :D

Keep up the good work!

Hi Eric,

I found your collection of music to be quite nice and am looking into using some of it in a project of mine! Though I have a question regarding the "Prohibited use" section on your site.

This to me seem to contradict the CC-BY license which grants use for any purpose as long as proper attribution is used. I specifically might have trouble complying with the youtube community guideline that weren't really made for games in mind. Also I would have second thoughts on using the music in a game which includes nudity.

Of course you are free to put any restrictions on your work as you see fit. It would just help me to get some clarification on what restrictions you intended for the work. Also it might be a good idea to put this "Prohibited use" in the "Copyright/Attribution Notice" section on the OpenGameArt pages as well!

Thanks!

Dear Eric, 

For a few myself that I was working games. I was looking for some music ... I want to thank you for this initiative. I can now add your music in my production. You encourage me in my project. I sent a video soon as the progress of my game is great. Some songs are beautiful to adapt well in my world of madness.

I will attend your donation soon.

Just need an information: I have so loved some songs ... I read that you produce on demand. If I provide you the games first before (without music), would you be ready to produce all his music!

A real work of composer ;-) 

What would be your price ?

Thanks for your awesome music and excuse my english :D

Just need an information: I have so loved some songs ... I read that you produce on demand. If I provide you the games first before (without music), would you be ready to produce all his music!

A real work of composer ;-) 

What would be your price ?

Very nice!

If I were you I would sell these on Unity Asset store as well as providing them as CC4.0. A lot of people can't attribute but those people usually can pay instead :)

A lot of them make commercial games where they don't want to attribute.

I myself would consider buying assets just to not have to deal with keeping track of attributions for them as you'll add and remove thema all the time during development and I'm only doing it for fun :) The tool on this site is great though where you can add and remove from a collection for your game, that makes it a lot easier.

As a commercial (indie, but I make money) game developer who mostly uses CC/PD art and a little royalty-free paid work:

All commercial games MUST credit the artists and musicans. Paid or not. It's fine if that's buried in the credits screen that nobody looks at, but it had better be there. I've seen companies destroyed over failing to attribute. You can't afford the lawyer time to deal with it.

Glad to see your stuff up here, Eric, I'll be using some of these!