Commissioning Dungeon Crawl Music

[Rocktopus64]

Greetings everyone,

I'm currently in need of some dungeon crawling music for a webcomic project. I'll be funding it partly on patreon, and I need some music to use during the patreon video, and for other update videos and such. I am of course willing to pay; that's no problem.

Here's some examples of roughly the sort of thing I'm looking for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ--n4nGgFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml1CkyomCM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwvnOeS_adM

Basically, something creepy, fantastical, magical, and that would make a good dungeon theme in a rougelike RPG. Nothing too attention-demanding or bombastic. The music only needs to be around 3-5 minutes. It's preferred that it's a unique composition; not something you've already made. But if you have something that's just perfect already made, I'd accept that too. Either way, you will be fully credited as the artist whenever it's used, with a link to whatever site you want.

Here's some examples of the sort of artwork that I'll be using in the webcomic, for your inspiration. The comic is going for a PG-13 rating and will contain violence, course language, and mild sexual themes, so you don't have to make the music cartoony or kid-friendly despite the art style:

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  Marblegate Character Concepts

  by Rocktopus64

  Illustration

  1,362 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Hippie Wood Elf

  by Rocktopus64

  Illustration

  2,372 Views

  (Everyone)

I'd prefer to pay over paypal if that's possible, since I already have that set up.

If you're interested, please respond in this forum thread, via private message, or by my work email account: [e-mail]

Please list in your response a price quote; how much you expect it to cost, as well a link to some of your work (doesn't have to be on Newgrounds) so that I know what you're capable of.

Due to recent experiences involving people attempting to cheat me out of money, payments won't be made until AFTER the work is completed. I know that's a little sketchy, but it's too easy on my front for people to lie about making something, then taking the money and running. If you're nervous or paranoid about getting payments afterwards, then once you're finished with the song you can send me a low-quality sample of the audio-file to show me that it's done, then send the final file once payments are made.

Thanks for listening. Any questions should be directed either to this forum thread, or to me via private message.

[BrokenDeck]

At 1/8/16 10:50 AM, Rocktopus64 wrote: Due to recent experiences involving people attempting to cheat me out of money, payments won't be made until AFTER the work is completed.

At least you are offering a salary and not asking musicians to work for free. ;)'

You'd be surprised at how many developers in your position ask for free newly composed custom music.

[Rocktopus64]

Right, I should also make it clear, when I say payments are made AFTER the work is completed, I mean payments are made once you're done making the music track, not once I'm finished my end of the work on this project. Whether or not I actually wind up using your work, you'll still get paid if you do the work.

But yeah, I absolutely will pay for commissioned work. I am a FIRM believer in artists getting paid for their work. I don't do this whole "no money, but it'll be great exposure!" thing.

[camoshark]

At 1/8/16 11:27 AM, Rocktopus64 wrote: Right, I should also make it clear, when I say payments are made AFTER the work is completed, I mean payments are made once you're done making the music track, not once I'm finished my end of the work on this project. Whether or not I actually wind up using your work, you'll still get paid if you do the work.

But yeah, I absolutely will pay for commissioned work. I am a FIRM believer in artists getting paid for their work. I don't do this whole "no money, but it'll be great exposure!" thing.

Fantastic mindset, godspeed my friend! I'll tag a few blokes I think would be interested/fitting for the job.

@samulis @step @dem0lecule @bosa

[samulis]

At 1/8/16 11:27 AM, Rocktopus64 wrote: Right, I should also make it clear, when I say payments are made AFTER the work is completed, I mean payments are made once you're done making the music track, not once I'm finished my end of the work on this project. Whether or not I actually wind up using your work, you'll still get paid if you do the work.

But yeah, I absolutely will pay for commissioned work. I am a FIRM believer in artists getting paid for their work. I don't do this whole "no money, but it'll be great exposure!" thing.

You have no idea how refreshing your humanity and logic is to our ears. Can we... convince you to stick around... and yell at all the people who want us to do things for free for us? D:

Kidding aside, I'd love to help out. One of my specialties is live-recorded ambient and free-improvised music, which I think would fit very nicely in this.

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  The Shaman Transcends

  by samulis

  Ambient music featuring live instruments.

  Song

  Ambient

  1,649 Views

  PLAY

(probably the closest piece I already have to what you are looking for, although it's written quite dynamically, as a score to another animation)

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  Stormy Evening

  by samulis

  Thunderstorm Ambience

  Song

  Ambient

  1,717 Views

  PLAY

(mix of virtual and live)

https://instaud.io/private/c5d40c031637394a711dbc78dde4302bfc647c4e (" ")
https://instaud.io/3Do

As far as pricing goes, I'm pretty flexible. I can license an existing work (I have quite a few other ambient pieces that may work); that can probably be as low as $30-40 for the length of song you're interested in.

Original but non-exclusive music around 5 minutes in length would probably only run you $100-200 due to the relative simplicity (and also the great deal of fun) associated with ambient music of this style. This is all negotiable, and I am flexible to work to your budget.

[Rocktopus64]

Thank you very much everyone for all your offers! I've found someone who is going to work on this project with me, so I don't need any more offers right now.

Thank you!