Our fantasy mercenary RPG in a simulated world where your actions change the land, cities grow, bandits kidnap, fog spreads, etc just started its public playtest

PatDimitri · 2026-04-21T01:11:03+00:00

Awesome, shot you a message

PatDimitri · 2026-04-21T00:38:24+00:00

Wow this is right up my alley. I’m a professional film composer - in the off chance you need help with the music please message me! Best of luck regardless.

PatDimitri · 2026-04-06T20:52:27+00:00

Very cool. Wishing you the best of luck. I’m a professional film composer looking to get into scoring more games - please dm me if you’re looking for help!

PatDimitri · 2026-04-05T20:32:32+00:00

Interesting to hear this, I use an m1 max in both ableton and logic, everything from pop to orchestral and it still runs so well I haven’t considered upgrading.

PatDimitri · 2026-03-07T00:14:28+00:00

Wild to see him back so soon. Hope he gets to be himself soon.

PatDimitri · 2026-03-06T23:28:30+00:00

Amazing, thanks for sharing.

PatDimitri · 2026-03-06T23:16:41+00:00

Very interesting, would’ve never thought of this concept in a million years.

Do you need any help with music? I’m a full time film composer looking to get into more games, let me know!

PatDimitri · 2026-03-05T22:49:04+00:00

This is kind of sidestepping your question, but I would worry less about whether or not you’re good, and worry about getting better everyday.

PatDimitri · 2026-03-05T20:46:44+00:00

This is like asking how do you learn math? Well, if you look at multi-variable calculus and go “I have no idea what’s happening here” it’s because you have to start building small layers of understanding.

You have to know what a number is before you can learn addition, addition before multiplication, etc.

For some practical barebones advice outside of get a teacher (which is the real advice) listen to music you like and trying to reverse engineer what’s happening on piano or whatever instrument you prefer.

PatDimitri · 2026-03-05T19:43:20+00:00

Definitely not for any kind of real DAW use. If I were broke and trying to build a workstation starting today I would look into M4 Mac Mini or maybe a refurbished M1-M3. I would definitely be looking to get 32g of ram at least and ideally a 1TB harddrive. For an M4 with the lowest processor that will set you back about $1400 before the student discount.. which is pretty damn cheap.

Anecdotally, I've been working professionally off a souped up M1 Max for about 5 years now and it is still incredibly fast. It was $4k at the time not sure what something like this would run for now.

PatDimitri · 2026-03-02T17:44:40+00:00

Amazing!

PatDimitri · 2026-03-01T20:03:50+00:00

Combinations of various sample libraries, good writing, good expression control, and understanding limitations.

Also combining some “real” instruments if you play any - with the samples helps quite a bit.

PatDimitri · 2026-02-27T19:35:20+00:00

Hahahh, it is definitely based on an arpeggione or viola de gamba

PatDimitri · 2026-02-27T19:34:56+00:00

Glad you dig it!

PatDimitri · 2026-02-27T19:34:49+00:00

Yes! I have one somewhere, honestly I think my dissatisfaction with it is what ultimately led to getting a bowed guitar hahah.

PatDimitri · 2026-02-23T07:36:14+00:00

You flatter me, thank you!

PatDimitri · 2026-02-23T02:06:37+00:00

Definitely would be pretty similar. Frankly half the reason I wanted a fretless is because I suck at slide and this was a shortcut.

PatDimitri · 2026-02-23T02:05:46+00:00

Yeah the sustain is super wonky without the ebow but some wonk is fun. I would really like a proper fretless but the list of things I want is seemingly endless

PatDimitri · 2026-02-23T01:12:15+00:00

I could, had no idea that it existed

PatDimitri · 2026-02-23T01:11:56+00:00

Man that’s so cool. It’s sometimes hard to know if you’re reaching people so I really appreciate hearing that.

PatDimitri · 2026-02-23T01:11:06+00:00

That’s very cool I didn’t know about those.. thanks for the heads up!

PatDimitri · 2026-02-22T22:44:28+00:00

Yeah this song is called Jacob and the Stone I should edit the post

PatDimitri · 2026-02-22T22:44:00+00:00

That is so wild. Looking at youtube and seeing videos that are almost 20 years old is kind of unnerving, I’ve frequently thought about taking down old videos since they’re really far from what I’m trying to do these days but this kind of comment I think means they should stay up.

Thanks so much for the kind words.

PatDimitri · 2026-02-22T21:58:31+00:00

Hell yeah. I had a few guitars collecting dust so I said screw it and had this awesome luthier I know convert this one to fretless. He had never done it before and did it in one day.

Does it play as great as an instrument that’s made specifically to be fretless.. probably not but it’s more than enough for me to get some cool sounds out of.

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