Composing was pretty much the last step of the movie in my workflow, although that was more of a guideline than a rule. While I can see a couple things that I could have done differently, I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out--and, perhaps more vitally of all, if I waited for the soundtrack to be perfect I wouldn't actually ever get the movie released.  Anyway, given my blog's early emphasis on project-making resources, I decided to showcase what I used to make the soundtrack for ABYDOS: Incursion! Below is everything I used to compose it; all of them are free in some form (although some carry a couple caveats), because my approach to whether I should grab software really hasn't changed in the last eight or nine years of this blog. Composing software/DAW used: LMMS (free and open source) Instruments used (NOTE: The below license descriptions only apply to making music with the downloads, not modifying/redistributing the files themselves. Also, while I've...

It's occurred to me that I've had the same basic theme since about... 2014. (And that was when I switched from Picture Window: Shade to Picture Window: Open.) While I've redesigned the blog every few years, most of that's been renovating the backgrounds and coloring, if with some fancier additions like gradients via CSS.  With a new decade officially in place and responsive design more important than ever, I decided it's time to fully redecorate! I'll admit I wasn't as big a fan of the default Contempo on its own, but with some CSS, the gradients and transparency are back and the ABYDOS -influenced color scheme is far more consistent across the site! I'll eventually replace the background and header images (the latter image was first rendered in late 2014), but I thought I'd keep them for now to transition the theme more smoothly. In the meantime, I've been working on a couple of other projects I'm quite excited about (not related to ABYDOS),...