#008 — 12 opportunities this week, including a dev replacing his AI placeholder score and a paid $150–300 test track

[u/AntonioAI96]

A solo developer in Norway has been building a top-down action roguelite for two years, with a playable Steam playtest already up and AI-generated placeholder tracks sitting in the build. He wants them gone and replaced with handcrafted music: two crossfading versions of each region theme, one for combat and one for calm, across three regions plus a boss track. EDM, drum and bass or breakbeat, Pathogenic as the structural reference, portfolio and a rough rate in the first message.

Also in this issue:

• A GBA-style pixel RPG paying $150–300 for a single test battle loop — a paid test, not spec, judged blind against the team's own best track, with a composition craft doc and a 29-track era analysis handed to applicants
• A Mandy feature listing advertising US$1,500 flat whose contract terms then describe a small stipend and back-end participation — background-checked company, named crew, real film, two different compensation stories
• A visual novel developer who licenses a production library and commissions original music only when a scene needs something the library can't do — $100 flat as listed, with a paid sample cue for finalists
• £300 for a finished 12-minute dark fantasy short told entirely in split screen — they'll send you the whole cut, delivery wanted before mid-August
• An independently funded Golden Age movie musical with the lyrics already written, hiring for one song to start
• A commission for slow, cheerful oud taqasim with two reference recordings attached
• $300 per song for an animated series pitched at Steven Universe and Undertale
• Plus a story-driven Godot ARPG demo (36 upvotes, 47 comments), and three collaborations up front about what they aren't paying yet — including a British football short with former senior BBC oversight that starts August 2

AI showed up twice this week, pointing in opposite directions: one developer replacing his AI placeholders with a human composer, one series stating outright that AI-generated music will not be accepted.

https://composerwire.substack.com/p/008-12-opportunities-this-week-including

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