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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a somber and sorrowful track I wrote recently, featuring piano and an accompaniment of strings, guitar, and electronics.

Could work as a main menu theme, or for a specific in-game cutscene.

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome! I’m Pete Frogs, a video game composer and music producer, and I write music that helps indie games resonate emotionally with players.

For more info on my work and any collaboration opportunities, head over to my website: petefrogs.com

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · Sep 14

We don’t want AI slop.
Stop sending us AI slop.
Stop wasting our time with AI slop.
It doesn’t sound good.
It’s antithetical to our core values.
You didn’t even make it.
Knock it off.

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · 7d

Here's a solo piano piece I wrote recently. Going for something playful and cute — makes me think of little animals going about their lives and maybe making a little mischief.

And yeah, I'm a big fan of Debussy.

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Jun 24

Gotta vibe slow! Sonic & Chill 2 is out now 💙

10 chill, lofi house remixes of classic Sonic tracks from the Genesis era — my little love letter to the Sonic series and the 90s!

vgm.fm/sonicchill2

Sonic & Chill 2

The Sonic & Chill legacy continues in a synth-driven house tribute from Pete Frogs! Featuring 10 tunes from the blue hedgehog’s Genesis era.

vgm.fm

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GameChops @gamechops.com · Jun 24

The Sonic & Chill legacy continues in a synth-driven house tribute from @petefrogs.bsky.social! 🎵 Stream & Support ▸ vgm.fm/sonicchill2

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Jun 10

and for all of you music and Sonic nerds, there's a longer video on my YouTube breaking down how I made this track in more detail: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhLh...

How I remixed Sonic into Lofi House (2000 subs special!)

YouTube video by Pete Frogs

www.youtube.com

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Jun 10

Little sneak peak into one of the tracks from Sonic & Chill 2! the album release in exactly two weeks on June 24 💚

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Coffee Date @coffeedatelofi.bsky.social · May 20

♡ STARDEW & CHILL 2 ♡

it's such a pleasure to present this album on the third anniversary of the original Stardew & Chill—hope you all love it ♡

out now 🌟 @gamechops.com
streaming everywhere 🌱 vgm.fm/stardew2
album artwork 🖼️ @artbyriana.bsky.social

Album artwork for Stardew & Chill 2. A blue chicken rests in a pasture by a stump, its eyes closed contentedly. Atop the stump sits a plate of cookies and a steaming mug of coffee. In the background stands a farmhouse, and beside it, a stone well and a field of strawberries.

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · May 18

Come on... almost there...

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Pixelnest Studio @pixelnest.io · May 15

CTHULOOT, our arcade coop 1-4 players game is now playable on Nintendo Switch!

Grab it on the Nintendo eShop: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

(EU players: search on the console directly, page is still not up).

Have fun!

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #coopgaming

CTHULOOT for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy CTHULOOT and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · May 12

Cannibal Holocaust, right?

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · May 8

Sinners comes highly recommended if you like horror movies and/or blues music and/or film noir

Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Apr 8

a colorful drawing of sonic the hedgehog with a speech bubble that says gotta go fast

ALT: a colorful drawing of sonic the hedgehog with a speech bubble that says gotta go fast

media.tenor.com

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Apr 8

Today is release day! "Hydrocity Zone Act 2" just dropped: vgm.fm/hydrocity2

It's the lead single from my upcoming album, "Sonic & Chill 2", releasing on June 24.

You can presave it here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/prerelease/5...

can't wait for the full album release!

🐸 💙 🦔

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GameChops @gamechops.com · Apr 8

Today, @petefrogs.bsky.social makes a splash in “Hydrocity Zone”! Dipping into Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Pete is back with a deep house groove to dance or kick back and relax to. Support ▸ vgm.fm/hydrocity2 #Sonic #Sonicmovie #Sonic3

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Apr 1

I have a new remix coming out next Tuesday on GameChops! @gamechops.com

It's the lead single for an album coming out at the beginning of summer, and my first remix album focusing on one video game series in particular! Place your bets below ⬇️

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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · Mar 11

Happy 10th Birthday to Hotline Miami 2!

Thanks to @jamesturner.bsky.social for this anniversary art.

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Mar 1

All of this to say that even though I feel like some modern games suffer from too much hand-holding... you don't have to get as dirty as FFT. No need. In the end I just used an infinite HP cheat code to get through the fight and you know what, I don't even feel bad about it ^^

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Mar 1

I don't know, maybe they could have warned you that you couldn't go back to the world map afterwards? Of course, if you save your progress to a new save slot instead of overwriting your main save file, you're fine. But remember... on the original hardware, save slots were limited!

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Mar 1

But this? This honestly feels like the game is playing a dirty trick on you, offering you to save your game only so it can lock you into a super difficult battle that's waaay harder than any battle you've encountered before. This game's difficulty curve is like a roller-coaster sometimes.

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Mar 1

In my previous post about FFT I said that I appreciated how these old school games didn't mess around. You run into a Game Over, you restart from your last save, that's it and you'd better get used to it (I know this was the norm back then, but that norm has drastically changed since then).

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Mar 1

Seems like back in the day, what this meant for some players was simply having to REPLAY THROUGH THE WHOLE GAME from the very beginning, all so you can be better prepared for this one fight. Keep in mind, this fight occurs in the second half of the game, after at least 15 hours of play.

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Mar 1

After a quick search I found out that many players use cheese strats to get through the first phase of the fight, but unless you have enough job points saved up to unlock the required abilities for such cheese strats... you're out of luck.

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Pete Frogs Music 🎶 @petefrogs.bsky.social · Mar 1

The problem? Said battle is super difficult, starting with a phase in which you have to solo the boss's first phase with only your main character, leading to a second phase in which pretty much all enemy attacks one-shot you (or at least they did at my level).

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