FIFTH 6-7 | Original Piano Composition Joshua Iyer 2025-10-02 | I wrote this short piece at the piano over the weekend, and I have to give credit to my piano students, who taught me the "6-7 meme" and suggested I theme the piece around it. So... that's just what I did! It's a fun and fast-paced ride that I believe could be feasible for anyone to play with a little bit of practice. Enjoy!Sheet music coming soon!
My New Gaming Album Preview! [Sept. 2025] Joshua Iyer 2025-09-23 | Since January, I've been working on a gaming album, celebrating some of my favorite childhood gaming memories! This video previews five of the tracks I've written so far, with more to come in the future. Enjoy!(I've used gameplay footage from Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania, Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, and Donkey Kong Bananza, all captured on the Switch 2, just for general purposes in this preview video. This will ultimately end up as a project with my own original characters and ideas.)
Storybook Tales of Yore is out NOW! #fantasymusic #videogamemusic #nostalgicvibes Joshua Iyer 2025-09-20 | ...
Talking Storybook Tales of Yore, a collaboration gaming track with @sjr_caldwell! Joshua Iyer 2025-09-18 | ...
Mario Paint - Boku No Chikyu Bokura no Chikyu - from Mr. Driller: Drill Land Joshua Iyer 2025-07-30 | Nintendo added Mario Paint to the Super Nintendo service, and it works great with the Switch 2 Joy-Con as a mouse! I spent a couple hours this evening taking some of my Mr. Driller 2022 arrangement from this channel and putting it into Mario Paint. It reminded me of videos from the late-2000s of medleys or arrangements of video game or popular songs in Mario Paint Composer, an online tool people used for making music in an easy user-interface way. It's fun to play with the original 1992 Mario Paint tool as an actual composer, too!
Playing Donkey Kong Games in Animal Crossing | DK Bananza Hype! Joshua Iyer 2025-06-20 | Ever since Nintendo announced a new Donkey Kong game was in development for the Nintendo Switch 2, I've been slowly getting more obsessed with everyone's favorite big monkey and remembering learning about him in my childhood. While I have lots of memories playing Mario Party 5 landing on DK spaces, I think my first exposure to DK was in the original Animal Crossing, playing the original Donkey Kong as an NES game you could get in it. So, to celebrate DK Bananza's impending launch next month, I thought I'd post getting all the DK games and Mario-related games on the NES in the original Animal Crossing and play through them in a casual Let's Play-style video. I'm super excited for the new game to release, and maybe I'll post a few videos of it in the future, in addition to Mario Kart World! I hope you enjoy.
Last Surprise - Persona 5 - Cover (ft. VGM friends!) Joshua Iyer 2025-05-30 | Here is my arrangement of "Last Surprise" from Persona 5, for GameGrooves' Lounging in the Velvet Room album!Official site - gamegrooves.com/ggm-33-lounging-in-the-velvet-roomStream it - http://lnk.to/velvet-roomAlbum art by: Maria-Francesca Massaro-Guglielmohttps://x.com/aggressionroseinstagram.com/massaro1310https://bsky.app/profile/aggressionrose.bsky.social(The art is so beautiful on this and some other projects I've done! Definitely check it out!!)I've really gone outside my comfort zone for this cover! I've never played a Persona game before (I gotta change that!), but I've been wanting to participate in more online music projects, and this seemed like the perfect one to start with back in January of this year. I'm also more of a classically-trained musician rather than a jazz musician. Still, I'm very proud of how this turned out, with all the musicians playing on it bringing such a great sound to it!I wrote a sort of piano cadenza for the introduction, introducing the iconic violin line to kick off the piece in a more relaxed tone. From there, the piece more or less follows two verses and two choruses of the original. I always try to write so everyone gets a turn playing melody or an important part, so it was really fun to weave the melody amongst the different instruments I had to work with. Finally, the piece ends with a call-back to the beginning, in a style I used to do on some of my old covers from a few years ago.Joshua Iyer - arranger, violins 1+,2 piano@animevivi - viola@WarpWhistlesMusic (Donut) - bass clarinetDeLuxDolemite - percussion@CaitlinAyala - harp@ianmartynmusic3310 - bass
A Night At Boos Opera - Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Cover (ft. VGM friends!) Joshua Iyer 2025-04-18 | Here is my arrangement of "A Night At Boo's Opera" from Super Mario Bros. Wonder for VGMCon's 72-hour album jam in 2025.Stream this album - lnk.to/vgmcon5 I'm back with yet another Mario cover! This was such a fun project to obsess over during the weekend of the event, and to actually try and create an actual opera! Because the track itself is so short, I wrote an introduction based on the material of the piece to act as an instrumental recitative of sorts, before the music kicks into full gear. I'm humbled so many incredible musicians came to join me in this! Thank you all for an incredible VGMCon event!Joshua Iyer - arranger, violins 1+2, pianoXander Plute - flute 1@KatieShesko - flute 2Cameron Seitzman - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone (and Evil Laughter!)Andrew Gosset - bassoon 1Auixerre - bassoon 2Jamin Morden - horn@VRonMediaMusic - percussionDeLuxDolemite - percussionSarah Wolf - soprano and alto (voice)Amanda Cavanagh - soprano (voice)Ashleah Younker - soprano and alto (voice) (and Evil Laughter!)musical_daredevil - tenor (voice)@ianmartynmusic3310 - alto and tenor (voice)@thankyousasquatch - tenor (voice)James Heazlewood-Dale - Contrabass
Purple Planet Galaxy | Super Mario Construct Custom Level (100%) Joshua Iyer 2025-04-03 | Gameplay video of a level I made in 2024 for the fangame Super Mario Construct, posted on the LSS website. Here is the description I wrote on the site:Mario and his friends have crash-landed on this unfamiliar planet while exploring the depths of outer space. Can you hit all the switches to reach the key for your ship and escape? Help Mario explore a strange new world with his crew! Level inspired by Super Mario Galaxy and Good Boy Galaxy. Music composed by me.Here is a link to the level if you'd like to play it yourself - levelsharesquare.com/levels/67a0fc5c26cc58e696c6ee81
(Another) Kaizo Mario 3-J (2024 Levels Demo) | Super Mario Maker 2 Joshua Iyer 2025-01-26 | This is a trailer for a brand-new Super World that's been in the works since last spring! Super Mario Bros. 3 has always been my favorite 2D Mario game (as well as the first one I played on the GBA in 2003), and ever since even experimenting with Game Maker back in the day, I've always wanted to make my own Mario 3-style levels. I am hoping to slowly craft a 40-level Super World in Mario Maker 2, to replace my 2020 Super World, of difficult Kaizo levels in the SMB3 theme.Check out the demo at my Maker ID if you have the game and are interested:2L5-524-HQGThanks for watching! If you hae any feedback about any of the courses, please leave them in the comments here or in-game!
Able Sisters - Animal Crossing - Cover ft. VGM friends! Joshua Iyer 2024-11-20 | Here is my cover of “Able Sisters” from the Animal Crossing series, as part of an album I worked on this past year, Welcome Home: A Chamber Tribute to Hometown Themes! Featuring Caitlin Ayala on harp, V-Ron Media on marimba, Donut from Warp Whistles Music on clarinet, and Ian Martyn on bass. Thank you all for playing on this track, and it was lovely to make music together with you through this and the rest of the album!I’ve been a big fan of the Animal Crossing series since the original GameCube game around 2003. When I was asked to write a theme for this album, I immediately thought of the safe space the series has provided me over the years, and picked the Able Sisters theme. I have so many memories going into their shop and designing Nintendo-themed clothing or chatting with Sable about her favorite TV shows and that. I hope you enjoy this waltz take on a classic tune, and it brings you warmth and comfort!Get the album on Bandcamp - gamegroovesalliance.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-home-a-chamber-tribute-to-hometown-themesListen on streaming services - releases November 22ndWelcome Home: A Chamber Tribute to Hometown Themes is a 14-track album filled with cozy chamber covers that'll bring you back home after a long journey just in time to wind down and settle in for the year's end. Grab some hot cocoa and feel the gentle cool breeze as you listen to these relaxing hometown themes.creditsreleases November 22, 2024 Album Produced by V-Ron Media Album Art by Maria-Francesca Massaro-Guglielmo Album Mastering by Drew Gibson Mechanical Licensing by Affordable Song Licensing Special thanks to Ian Martyn
When you first learn to shell jump and do it everywhere. (Thanks to ryukahr for the video tutorial!) Joshua Iyer 2024-10-02 | ...
Temple Trap | Stampys Lovely World Minigame in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Joshua Iyer 2024-09-04 | My original video showing off this remake - youtu.be/JNTj7_IgSWETo celebrate the release of Stampy's Lovely World map download in Minecraft, I invited a couple friends from The Bonus Points Discord to finally test out my Temple Trap recreation I made in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! It turned out to be so much more fun than I had thought, and I definitely hope we can do it again sometime soon!This was a very nostalgic video to make, reminding me of all my old minigames I would make and play with friends back in the City Folk days. It also of course celebrated one of my favorite YouTube series now!Stampy's video with the map download (in Minecraft) - youtube.com/watch?v=iEdad5VztSIDesign Codes:Crafting table - MO-2MXM-6SB3-BS8JPink wool - MO-0BQX-8NQW-DLLXStampy Cat - MO-XX4V-9PGD-MQPWStampy standee - MO-4GYX-DBB9-55GH
Animal Crossing - Ball Maze Minigame Joshua Iyer 2024-08-27 | A short video showing off a minigame concept I had in mind for the original Animal Crossing, to go alongside the minigames I've shared in City Folk and New Horizons on this channel in the past. I believe this is my first time trying to make a minigame in the original game! I think I've successfully managed to combine my three favorite game series here: Mario, Monkey Ball, and Animal Crossing! Let me know what you think of this concept - I might make a larger course over the course of this week and share a new video early next week!Thanks for watching!
Animal Crossing by Kelsey Lewin | Book Review Joshua Iyer 2024-08-20 | I've been obsessed with a brand-new book on the history of Animal Crossing, and I decided to put together this short video talking a little bit about it. It was an incredible read for a fan of Animal Crossing, Nintendo, and Japanese culture, and how the game was developed, marketed, and discussed through the community to this day. It's my all-time favorite series ever, and that's why I wanted to share a bit of my passion and excitement in the form of this video. I hope you enjoy! Here is MinnMax's video with the author with more information - youtube.com/watch?v=L39XA_4rxvs
Clearing Custom Mario Playlists | Super Mario Maker Joshua Iyer 2024-08-16 | Last night, I discovered a feature on the original Super Mario Maker for the Nintendo Wii U that allows you to play through sets of four levels in a playlist. I decided to record a video showing off this feature, and also use it as an excuse to show off some of my Mario Maker 1 levels I'm most proud of, and favorites I've downloaded from some other creators I watch here on YouTube. Hope you enjoy, and let me know if you'd like to see another episode in this format!
Did you know Super Mario Maker 1 kind of had Super Worlds? #mario #mariomaker #shorts Joshua Iyer 2024-08-15 | ...
My Kaizo Mario 3 Game | Fortress #1 Joshua Iyer 2024-08-03 | Course ID: 7T3-FBK-P6GI am working on a Super Mario Bros. 3 Kaizo game inside of Super Mario Maker 2! I'm trying to give it a feeling of it being a ROM hack of the original using the tools in Nintendo's Mario level editor. I'll slowly be releasing levels over time, and thought I'd share some clear videos on my channel. This one's a doozy! The rotating fireballs are meant to represent the rotating discs (or "waffles") from the original Mario 3 found in fortresses. I'm proud of how this one turned out, even if it took me two hours tonight just to get a clear check done!Thanks for watching!
Launchers | A Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble Stunt Movie | CityFolk66 Joshua Iyer 2024-07-31 | I've been absolutely obsessed with the newest entry in the Super Monkey Ball series, Banana Rumble! I thought I'd put together this little stunt movie of clips from my first month or so playing the game. I didn't use any online guides or haven't watched any speedruns of the game yet, so this has all probably been done before and better, but I still wanted to put together a fun little video as I've seen on other Monkey Ball games. Enjoy!
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All - Part 2 Joshua Iyer 2024-07-19 | Next video - coming soon!Full playlist - youtube.com/watch?v=fiZ0CU0R3Nc&list=PLfCwPjADFUDddBAFZszvZ8EsRuO0f32GbCome join my friends (Kaitlyn and Marissa) and me as we jump into Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney! We played through the entire first game last year, and recently decided to jump into the second. I thought it would be fun to record our playthrough with our silly voices for the characters, and we plan on continuing to record this as a series. Enjoy!
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All - Part 1 Joshua Iyer 2024-07-13 | Next video - youtube.com/watch?v=TAVrHuDtn8EFull playlist - youtube.com/watch?v=fiZ0CU0R3Nc&list=PLfCwPjADFUDddBAFZszvZ8EsRuO0f32GbCome join my friends (Kaitlyn and Marissa) and me as we jump into Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney! We played through the entire first game last year, and recently decided to jump into the second. I thought it would be fun to record our playthrough with our silly voices for the characters, and we plan on continuing to record this as a series. Enjoy!
Stage Play Of Magic [Gaming Animation Score-Video] Joshua Iyer 2024-06-13 | I kinda made a video game.This is a small orchestral work I finished that was inspired by my love of games and story-telling. I had always had some vision to add an element of animation to it, and this is the final result. I hope you enjoy!Check out the music without the game - youtube.com/watch?v=P2qxD4N6O1gMy Twitter - My website - www.joshuaiyer.com
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | My Personal 10-Year Retrospective Joshua Iyer 2024-05-29 | This is my personal Mario Kart 8 look-back at the game's history over the past 10 years, including all the maps and updates Nintendo made to it. I've been enjoying it through YouTube and playing it myself since it was on the Wii U. Mario Kart's been a part of my life since the Wii and DS versions, and having this massive game combining the history of the whole series so far into one modern HD package, mixed with a live instrumental soundtrack, has been a treat to enjoy.I opted for a text commentary for this video, just showing gameplay of all 96 maps in the game, as well as the 8 battle maps right at the end. If you need something to put on in the background, I think this would suffice for that.I hope you enjoy this video! Feel free to let me know any favorite Mario Kart memories you may have had over the years. Thanks for watching!
Visiting Choke City (NSMBW 9-7) Joshua Iyer 2024-05-26 | I was trying out this silly challenge in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and it ended rather unfortunately.In all seriousness, this was a nostalgic blast to play again!
Trombone Champ with @Bo55Fatwod Joshua Iyer 2024-05-22 | I recently played through several music tracks in Trombone Champ! Please enjoy our struggles through increasingly-difficult music selections in the game. Let us know what you think of this format! We'd love to record a second part in the future.Follow Boss here - youtube.com/channel/UCWJP6iqrwzfB5wcVXrvRnOg
Symphonic Games - Violin Quiz Joshua Iyer 2024-05-13 | This is a silly challenge video where I play some orchestral violin parts to some video game soundtracks, and you have to try and guess what the games are! If you've been following along with my channel for a little while and some of my past VGM covers, you might be able to guess most of these. (I was introduced to many of these by The Bonus Points channel!) I hope you enjoy!
A Mario Maker 2 Speedrun | Desert Pass | (from my 2020 Super World) Joshua Iyer 2024-03-28 | I felt like recording a quick speedrun attempt on a desert level I made in Super Mario Maker 2 in 2020. I've always enjoyed watching speedruns on the GDQ stage, and thought it could be fun to upload random attempts running games because... why not?My Creator ID - 2L5-524-HQG
Bonus Game - Super Mario World | Violin Duet (Mar10 Day) Joshua Iyer 2024-03-10 | Happy Mario Day, everyone! I decided to put together this short duet in celebration of my favorite gaming character (hot take, I know) with this theme from Super Mario World that plays in Switch Palaces and for the Bonus Game. I hope you enjoy! Yahoo!My 2022 Mario Day cover - youtube.com/watch?v=M82kQlYdp_0My 2023 Mario Day cover (technically) - youtube.com/watch?v=P_llfGsnQC4More Mario covers - youtube.com/watch?v=JdHv5jPXY4M&list=PLfCwPjADFUDcjXx1qN3lloZjSdKEQ1oX-
Mines (Danger!) - Stardew Valley - Cover ft. VGM Friends! Joshua Iyer 2023-11-27 | I arranged this track for our Stardew Valley album of music from the Mines! This was a lot of fun to work on and I'm very proud of how the entire album turned out. Thank you especially to V-Ron Media and Caitlin Ayala for working on it with me!Special thanks to all these incredible performers playing in my arrangement:@VRonMediaMusic - Percussion (Castanets, Wood-Block, Shaker, Marimbas, Drum Set), Piano@CaitlinAyala - Harp@NicoMendozaMusic - Bass@WarpWhistlesMusic - Bass Clarinet@vwtrombone50 - Trombones-----ABOUT THE ALBUM:Deep in the Mines: A Tribute to Stardew ValleyV-Ron Media, Caitlin Ayala, and Joshua Iyer set out on a quest to explore the mines and complete the GameGrooves co-op album challenge. Grab your pickaxe or slingshot of choice and embark on a journey deep in the mines. Bring these six covers from the indie hit "Stardew Valley" in your inventory and you're bound to have a successful trip to The Mines!Album artwork by Maria-Francesca Massaro Guglielmo - instagram.com/massaro1310Listen to the album: lnk.to/deepminesListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7iwCzW...Get the album on Bandcamp: vronmediamusic.bandcamp.com/album/deep-in-the-mines-a-tribute-to-stardew-valley
Soaring Through The Cosmos ~ Music from Super Mario Galaxy ~ A Tribute Album (2023) Joshua Iyer 2023-10-26 | This is my full 5-track EP for my Super Mario Galaxy tribute album, Soaring Through The Cosmos. It was made for last year's GameGrooves Album Challenge (2022) and is my first album I've released.STREAMING LINKS: coming soonThanks to my good friend Gabriella Franzone for her incredible album art! You can find her Instagram here - The background for this video is a stock Nebula background in Final Cut Pro.My LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/cityfolk66---ABOUT THE ALBUMSoaring Through The Cosmos is my attempt to create my own string orchestra version of one of Nintendo’s most iconic soundtracks. Before starting work arranging for this album, I had listened to other VGM cover albums that recreated their own orchestras, recording their string parts multiple times to create the effect of a 30-piece orchestra. That is the main thing I did in this album to try and make it feel symphonic and cinematic using my single violin. For variety, I also included piano, melodica, and a couple of auxiliary percussion instruments like a wood-block and wooden frog.Super Mario Galaxy’s soundtrack has been a distinct part of my childhood since playing it back in 2007 on the Wii, and I remember listening especially to its sequel’s soundtrack before going to bed in the summer of 2010. I knew I wanted to capture these memories enjoying this era of orchestral Mario music, so I included five tracks that appeared or had similar motifs used in both games. The arrangements themselves are faithful to the originals, but, where possible, I added in some of my own style and orchestration techniques I have learned from and used in classical music. It only made sense to include a buzzing bee similar to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” in “The Honeyhive,” for example!This was my first time mixing and mastering for a full album, and while I can see plenty of room for improvement listening to it now, I am very proud of the final result. This was also my first time commissioning a piece of artwork, which I did with my friend, Gabriella Franzone. We had several meetings discussing the style and how to bring in elements from the Super Mario Galaxy box art and official soundtrack CD art without getting too close to Mario. She returned working in a beautiful watercolor backdrop she painted IRL to simulate me recording this album on my actual instruments. All in all, it was a fun project, and I look forward to attempting another album, either of video game covers or possibly original compositions, in the future!Thank you for listening! - CityFolk66 / Joshua Iyer.
Soaring Through the Cosmos - a Super Mario Galaxy Tribute Album | Trailer Joshua Iyer 2023-10-06 | A trailer for my Super Mario Galaxy tribute album that will be out later this autumn. I am hoping it will be made available (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) by Super Mario Bros. Wonder's release, but we will have to see. (We'll just say that's why I used Super Mario Maker 2 footage rather than anything from Galaxy itself... :P)LINKS: TBDA bit about this album: All the way back in January 2022, I decided to participate in the GameGrooves Album Challenge for that year, which tasked us with writing 5 arrangements from a single game (or a theme) for an EP. I was looking through the MarioWiki for some possible soundtracks, and decided to go for Super Mario Galaxy, since I have the physical CD for the soundtrack (and discs for both Galaxy games on the Wii from my childhood). I picked the five tracks in relation to music that reappeared in Galaxy 2, and arranged it mainly for strings (violins) and piano, inspired by another GameGrooves album I had heard of Final Fantasy music written entirely for strings and recorded by just a few musicians, playing their parts over and over. The mixing and mastering process was mostly finished by New Years Eve 2022, and I asked a good friend of mine to make the album artwork, which turned out beautifully as you can see! I am so excited to finally release this album, as the files have just been collecting dust on my computer. Please let me know what you think in the comments below! Thank you!
Shiveria Town - Super Mario Odyssey - Cover ft. VGM Friends! Joshua Iyer 2023-09-15 | Streaming link - COMING SOONHere is my cover of "Shiveria Town" from Super Mario Odyssey. I recorded this with a group of phenomenal VGM players for a group of Mario Day covers back in March, so this is just a bit late... but we'll just say it's Mario Wonder hype!"Shiveria Town" has always been one of my favorite tracks in the game ever since Odyssey released. It's got such a charming atmosphere and fits the game's snow world perfectly. I always loved the solo violin part and was excited to learn it, here, passing it along to Nico. It was great to pass this melody around so everyone was able to play it, including the second half, which adds the snare drum for before you go to the racetrack. I hope you enjoy!A big thank you to @CaitlinAyala , @VRonMediaMusic , @WarpWhistlesMusic, and @NicoMendozaMusic for their contributions playing on this! Please check out the other Mario Day covers (even though they're six months old...) I played for on their channels, too:youtube.com/watch?v=sKAIoj_Exro - Starship Mario - Super Mario Galaxy 2youtube.com/watch?v=LgDx1vO9n10 - Traveling the Warp Pipe - Mario Party
Last Day - The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask | Violin Cover #Summerof64 Joshua Iyer 2023-08-30 | This is a cover of "Last Day" from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask I did for GameGrooves' Summer of 64 event, featuring music from lots of different Nintendo 64 games! Stream it here: open.spotify.com/album/5uibKt8t5xJaiAmpH6RS58?si=MsfQz44nTOSTJZS0Fev0ugMajora's Mask has always been one of my favorite Zelda games, with all the deep lore and fan-theories, excellent dungeon design, and dark atmosphere. This track, "Last Day," encapsulates the entire experience for me and many other players. I actually did a video back in April 2014 where I played alongside the in-game track. Since then I've learned considerably more about VGM arrangements, and I'd like to think this is an upgrade from that. In truth, the only thing I added to the strings were some electronics, as well as a harpsichord to give it a Baroque flavor. I also wrote an introduction, which serves as a transition point and the ending in-between the main melody. I hope you enjoy!My LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/cityfolk66
Turnabout Sisters Ballad - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (cover) | VGMCon 2023 Album Joshua Iyer 2023-06-09 | A cover of "Turnabout Sisters' Ballad" from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney I arranged and performed for VGMCon's 72-hour album jam in 2023. Stream this album - https://album.link/vgmconalbumjamvol3This was my first VGMCon event I participated in, and it was a wonderful experience! This was a challenge to arrange, record, and mix a track for an album in a weekend with several other musicians. It was a whirlwind of a weekend, but I think the track I chose turned out well and fits in with the rest of the album quite well. I tried to write the track as an '80s/'90s ballad, which I felt the instrumentation fit quite well. In this way, I hope to provide nostalgic feelings for those who experienced the game back in 2005 on the Nintendo DS, even though I just discovered it through my favorite gaming podcast on the Nintendo Switch at the start of this year. I got the idea for some drum fills from a jam session I had with a drummer where we played through this track for the first time together. Thank you to all the incredible people I got the privilege of collaborating with during the event!@MooglePower (Ian Martyn) - bassJorge Dávila - piano (chords)@SableProvidence - flute@KatieShesko - flute@VRonMediaMusic - drumsJoshua Iyer - arranger, piano (melody), violinsAnd thank you for listening! I've got more VGM (and maybe some livestreams...?) coming up on the channel this summer, so please stay tuned!My Twitter - mobile.twitter.com/iyer_joshuaMy website - www.joshuaiyer.com
Cross-Examination - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (arrangement) Joshua Iyer 2023-02-28 | I composed a fun orchestral/electronic arrangement a few weeks back of the "Cross-Examination" theme from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and thought I'd share it here. I've got lots of ideas to actually cover music from this game as it's quickly become one of my favorites since I was exposed to it. For now, hope you enjoy this silly little video! Thanks!I've got some big Mario covers and videos coming in the near future; please keep an eye out for those!All rights to the games shown here go to Capcom and Nintendo.
First VGM Track of 2023 | Beta Tracks [1] Joshua Iyer 2023-01-06 | It's a New Year, and that means the start of a new series on my YouTube channel! I'd like to try and offer insight into my music process, and I thought I'd start by sharing a track I started for fun but has evolved into being something I might use in a future project. Unlike most of my other music content, this is NOT finished, but I will be returning to it and I hope to present you with a final version later this year. It'll be great for me to look back and see how I've grown in my music production skills, and possibly enjoyable for you as well; and yay, it means more content in 2023! (I hope! It's one of my goals!)Please let me know what you think of this idea! Thanks for watching/listening!And yes, I came up with that title in two seconds... It is indeed a pun on betamax video! It also fits because these tracks are still being developed, sort of like when a video game enters an alpha or beta stage in its development cycle. So... yeah. :P
A Year-End Intermezzo Joshua Iyer 2022-12-30 | This is a small orchestral work I adapted from an academic Oboe Sonata I wrote at the start of 2019. This slow movement was in turn my own spin on the second movement of Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. I hope, at the end of a crazy 2022, this is a video where you can sit back and reflect about your year or things to come.I've got some exciting stuff planned right at the start of 2023, so please stay tuned for more info and videos to come! Thank you everyone, and have a fantastic rest of the year!
25 Games | The Bonus Points - 1-Year Anniversary Joshua Iyer 2022-11-07 | This is my celebration video for @thebonuspoints' 1-Year Anniversary! This is my favorite gaming podcast, and I have loved the variety of games shown on the show. On the podcast, they have (as of the 21st of October) listed 25 games, and I wanted to do something to share what I have learnt listening to many of these game soundtracks.The idea behind this project was to take these 25 games in order from worst to best and write two measures of music inspired by a track in that game's OST. I hope I was able to capture a little bit of each game and highlight the large variety of styles and worlds explored on the show. Check out the podcast or their YouTube channel if you'd like to see what they've been up to!The Bonus Points - youtube.com/channel/UC5QE2hDvhZz3TfLvzTVZySQ
Autumnal - Original Music Joshua Iyer 2022-10-11 | Stream this track: Coming soon!!I was inspired by an Animal Crossing streamer getting excited for the change of the season to write a piece celebrating my favorite things about the fall, and I figured now was the perfect time to release it as we can see the changing leaves in North America. I originally intended it for a piano duet for my students, then ended up switching it to a piano solo and recording it with some violin added on top. I hope you enjoy.The piece starts out depicting falling leaves with a three-note motif. The warm melody darkens when it is put low on the piano to depict the start of spook season, before everything brightens for the final statement of the melody and the piece concludes.
Developer Log #1 - Super Ball Adventure 2 (August 2021 Build) | A CityFolk66 Game Joshua Iyer 2022-09-17 | Welcome to my first developer log showing off the very start of a video game I am developing called Super Ball Adventure 2! This is a sequel to a game I made in 2010. It is a 2D platformer with co-op and collectables and will offer multiple levels of increasing difficulty, and some unique gimmicks as well. If you're interested in learning more, please check out some of the links below. I hope you enjoy!Page on my website - coming soon!Super Ball Adventure (2010) videos - youtube.com/watch?v=ZhxA0Fs9LwM&list=PLB294C8686B6EB61E(I have a section on my main channel page showing off playlists of "Games I've Made" if you'd like to learn more.)
The Trials of the Timed Switch - Custom Yoshi Level | Yoshis Fabrication Station Joshua Iyer 2022-09-04 | Gameplay video of my first-ever custom Yoshi level in the incredible fan-game Yoshi's Fabrication Station. I've made so many Mario levels over the years, and when I was starting to get into playing Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island this past month, I discovered this fan-game which lets you create your own custom levels! One day I might make a sequel to Super Mario Flash Hard in it, but for now, here is my very first course. It's just alright, but I hope you enjoy it all the same!Try out the fan-game - luigibonus.com/files/games/YoshisFabricationStationMy Super Mario Flash Hard playlist - youtube.com/watch?v=9N_TbGwoTHA&list=PLfCwPjADFUDewLSajrUD5k1no0pEIuJ6J
Temple Trap Recreation - Intro | Animal Crossing: New Horizons Joshua Iyer 2022-08-24 | I built a new minigame on my island... and this time, it's a recreation of a Minecraft minigame from @stampycat! In this video, I just wanted to introduce the game to you and gauge any interest in doing it as a tournament. I have done a few tester goes with friends; so far it seems like it's pretty fun and works well. Because the game is essentially a more controlled round of hide and seek, I thought this would be fun to play for my viewers who have visited my island since I did hide and seek on livestreams at the start of this year.Link to the original game - youtube.com/watch?v=5g-6MUPGNZYRules:A team of 3 (or so) players hide inside the pyramid. Then, the lone player starts a timer for 3 minutes and tries to find them. If the timer expires and the hiding players have not been found, they are allowed to escape the pyramid via one of four entrances/exits; once they do, they are safe. If the hider catches all the seekers, they are the winner.
Kirbys Adventure - No-Damage Boss Fight (Spoilers!) Joshua Iyer 2022-08-21 | Gameplay video of Kirby's Adventure for the NES. I'm playing on the Nintendo Switch. Spoilers for the final boss of the game with this video, but this was the coolest moment for me I've ever seen in a video game. And it came out in 1993! Hope you enjoy this short challenge.I just watched Kirby's 30th Anniversary Music Fest, so I thought I'd upload this as part of the celebration. I'd LOVE to cover a Kirby track some other time by the end of the year, if I've got time - if you have any requests or recommendations, please let me know!
If Nintendo wont add any more buildings to New Horizons, I will. (Animal Crossing: New Horizons) Joshua Iyer 2022-08-20 | Just a quick video showcasing a Post Office build I did on my island. I tried to not only make it look like a proper building added to the island, but also bring back Pelly and Phyllis from the older games and make it functional. Hope you enjoy!
