Morgan Ainsley 🎧
Composer for video games, full time nerd 🎶🎮🐉 currently working on Insignia
Aussie 🇦🇺
linktr.ee/morganainsleymusic
- I finally made a new website for myself! I spent way too much time on it but I’m really proud of the result www.morganainsleymusic.com
- Had the pleasure of doing music for this game and the demo is out now! Check it out!
- Reposted by Morgan Ainsley 🎧wowow world, the Nonolith demo is out now! A mysterious metroid-BRAIN-ia with hundreds of surprising 'aha' moments that will redefine what is and always has been possible. There are secrets everywhere, even this little demo has so much to discover!
- Reposted by Morgan Ainsley 🎧BITS & BOPS IS OUT NOW! 🎶 🎮 Over 20 original rhythm mini-games! 🎵 Catchy music! ⚡ Snappy gameplay! ✨ Gorgeous 2D animation! PLAY IT NOW ON STEAM! 💕
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- Rehearsals are well under way for Critical Hits: Game Music Live at Fortress. Here’s a peek at some of the music we’re playing 😊 Get your tickets early before they run out - it’s a small venue! events.humanitix.com/critical-hit...
- I finally finished the mix from this recording session and uploaded it! Pretty proud of this one. You can check it out here ☺️
- I’m conducting a video game music concert with live orchestra in Sydney 1st November and the event page is finally live! Come along if you’re interested ☺️
- Can’t believe it’s already that time of year again! Looking forward to hanging out with friends old and new in a few weeks time. Here’s where I’ll be 😊
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- Get amongst it!
- Parallels returns and early bird tickets are available now. Check out freeplay.net.au for tickets and info, with a full lineup and general release tickets coming in September
- Today’s office! Recording a string quartet I wrote a while back - it’s always magical working with real players ✨🤩 hoping to get the recording out soon
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- So excited for the return of Waypoint Constellations!!! ✨ It was such a killer event last year. The team really puts so much effort and care into making it special, and this year I’m honoured to be joining as one of the speakers! 🙈 Hope to see you there - tickets linked below
- A truly unforgettable experience at the Hollywood Music Workshop with @awintory.bsky.social last week - I’ve taken away so much not only from Austin but also my talented peers from all over the world. What a week!
- Excited to be speaking at this amazing event!
- Excited to share that over the next week I’ll be heading to Austria to attend the ‘Writing and Recording for Games’ Hollywood Music Workshop taught by @awintory.bsky.social A huge thank you to Sound NSW for the grant supporting me to attend. I’m eager to soak up as much as I can!
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- Reposted by Morgan Ainsley 🎧The Freeplay Angles 2025 schedule is now online, and tickets are on sale! Angles runs from 31st July - 2nd August at Science Gallery Melbourne. www.freeplay.net.au
- Any game devs in my feed based in Sweden, Ireland, Iceland or Estonia? I’m travelling to Europe with my sister in September and I’d love to meet some game dev friends from across the globe or get advice on any meetups I could poke my head into - reply here or DM me!
- Just went back to my old high school to be on a panel about careers in the creative industries. I wish I had something like that when I was a student there! Hope I helped even just one person in making the reality of a creative career a bit more visible
- Had a great time this weekend at the Powerhouse Alt games festival! Also joined a game jam on the ferry there with some cool peeps ⛴️
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- I won’t be at #GDC25 but the game I’m working on will be! If you’re going, say hi to Adam—he’s awesome. Working on Insignia has been a joy so far, and if you want a taste of what I’ve been making, check out the backing music in his video below 😁
- Had a blast 2 weeks ago recording some clarinet solo lines for Insignia, the game project I’m currently making music for - having real performances layered with samples always makes such a difference ☺️
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- This year I learnt that you can ask your local library to buy a book they don’t already have that you want and they’ll just do it. Why did no one tell me this?! Already used it 4 times this year
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- Of course Gordy Haab scored Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and of course he smashed it out of the park
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- Reposted by Morgan Ainsley 🎧2024 currently has more known games industry layoffs than 2023+2022 combined. 2024 is roughly 600 layoffs away from doubling 2023. There is still plenty of business days left in the month. I can't emphasize enough how extreme these last few years have been. So far.
- We made it guys
- Today I’ve been downloading/transferring over 1Tb of sample libraries/virtual instrument content onto an external hard drive. I started at 8:30am. It is now 11:35pm. It’s still going.
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- So fun to do my first talk at a game event - thanks @serenade.games and @pixelpasture.bsky.social for letting me ramble about a button
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- I’ll be giving a micro-talk at this! Here’s a sneak peak of my slides…
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- BONUS: my composing buddy
- Did a rescore of a sequence from the game Spider-Man: Miles Morales that gave me chills when I played it due to Troy Baker’s acting in the role of Krieger
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- (10) Journey Ending on a real banger. This one is really special to me because Austin Wintory’s music and YouTube channel are one of the reasons I realised I wanted to write game music. That’s all for this series. Hope you enjoyed getting to know me through the games I love!
- (9) Gris This game really felt like an interactive artwork. There was such artistry in every element and the sound design was so delicate and beautiful. Really touched me. Need to get onto Neva.
- (8) Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Hearing so much about Naughty Dog, particularly the Last of Us and Uncharted, I decided I wanted to play through the games in order, starting with the first Uncharted. I really enjoyed it and I’m now in Uncharted 2 - need to get back to it though.
- (7) Planet of Lana Like with Horizon Zero Dawn, I came to this game through the art and music. Takeshi Furukawa has got to be one of my favourite composers in terms of writing beautifully for orchestra. I’m still working my way through this game but it is as beautiful as I knew it would be.
- (6) Detroit Become Human I hadn’t heard of this game until my sister roped me in to playing through it with her. I was captivated. It’s mind blowing how detailed the branching narrative is and how much agency you have as a player. Story is very thought provoking with thrilling twists and turns.
- (5) Unpacking This game is genius in the way story telling is done through the gameplay. It was like nothing else I’ve ever played. Also gotta love an Aussie studio.
- (4) Horizon Zero Dawn I came to this game through loving the soundtrack. It’s the first game I bought even before I owned a console and was borrowing a friend’s. It was my entrance into console gaming and it was a rough start getting used to camera controls with robot dinosaurs coming at me.
- Thank you again GADA for this opportunity!
- (3) Hades I was convinced that the rogue-like genre wasn’t for me but I heard so many good things about Hades I had to try it and sure enough I was pleasantly surprised. It is so well crafted to ensure a sense of progression both in story and gameplay despite the resets. And music and art are 😍
- (2) The Curse of Monkey Island This game holds such a special place in my heart because my dad played through it (and the rest of the series) with me and my siblings when we were young. So many quotes live rent free in my head.
- Hi! I’m Morgan and I’m a video game composer based in Sydney Australia. I mostly write in an orchestral style, but recently I’ve been exploring EDM for something a bit different which has been fun. I’m currently working on the indie game Insignia from Upponhill
- (1) Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) This was the first console action adventure campaign that I ever completed, around the time when I got my first console at the start of my 20s (my family didn’t have one growing up). I loved the game, and with time I’d realise that shooters are really my jam.
- Gonna post 10 games that are significant to me and why in no particular order over the next 10 days so you can get to know me
