The game won the first prize, which consisted in some enhancements such as a High Score Table, a new title screen, and so on: this gave me the chance to compose a proper soundtrack for the game (and to draw a loading picture as well! It was my first one ever!). In 2012 I started making another game, called “ Sheer Earth Attack”, another compo winner, for which I made a complete soundtrack and a loading picture. Then, on the CSDb forum, I noticed a request for SID musicians willing to take part to the 20th birthday of Samar Productions (2013) I felt ready to compose something different from my usual game tunes, so I made “ Acoustic Freedom” and sent it to Ramos. He liked the tune, and asked me if I could make another one I accepted the challenge and made “ Filtered Feelings”. It’s time for some trivia: the tune sent to Samar Productions was actually called “ Filtered Feelings (v2)”, and featured no filters at all! In fact, the first version I made had filters, but when I accidentally switched the emulation from the 6581 chip to the 8580 one, the filtered part sounded very bad to me, so I decided to remove the filters… At the end of 2013 Ramos asked me if I wanted to join Samar Productions: he already had the ambitious project of a 3SID collection in mind, and asked me if I could compose some 3SID tunes.

It took almost three months, and the first 3SID collection (containing “ A Walk in the Countryside”, “ New Adventure”, “ SID Power Ballad”, “ Waterfall” and “ Arcade Memories”) was released. In February 2014 I took part to the Forever party compo with a tune called “ The Challenge”, a sort of hymn which was so ambitious that it almost ended at the last place! There was another compo at the Forever 2014, dedicated to the POKEY: Ramos asked me to study the ATARI sound chip and told me about the ATARI rmt music editor, which I used for composing “ Be Strong”, my first ever POKEY tune, which finished at the last place in the compo… I also composed another single SID tune for the “note”, but it was scrapped, so the tune was never released. The same year I composed (in this order) “ Filter Experiment” (which was released a couple of years later, under the title “ Living in the Future”), “ The Last Hope” (title tune for my SEUCK game with the same name), “ 2xperiment” (released later, together with “ Living in the Future”), “ Cloudy Days” (for the Flashback Party 2014 ended third at the compo) “ Summer Breeze” for the “ Attitude” disk magazine “ History of Headaches” for the Tape Loader Music Compo, ranked #12 the cover of “ Pixel City Moonlight” for the soundtrack of the C64 version of Pixel City Skater and “ My Fault”, another (stereo) POKEY tune for the Silly Venture 2014, which ranked #4. I also composed a short intro music for Uka’s entry for the Intro Creation Competition.

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