Kaelin Stemmler
Composer/Sound Designer

Games Composer and Sound Designer, Specialising in Chiptune, Sample Manipulation, Cozy and Ambient Music with a strong background in Jazz and Folk music. Capable of creating compositions for streamed audio, target sound chips, Tracker files and MIDI playback.

Showreel

A story driven platformer based on the 1554 novella Lazarillo de Tormes

The Life and Adventures of Buscón de Tormes

Technical Specs:
Created as part of the Game Boy Advance Game Jam (2024) using the Butano Game Engine the game runs on real Game Boy Advance hardware! OpenMPT was used to sequence music and export it to a Tracker file (.it) which the sound driver (MaxMod) could interpret.

Project Challenges	Learning Outcomes
Steep Learing Curve of Tracker Software	Composed music in familiar software and ported the track over to OpenMPT while learning its operations thereby separating the Creative and Technical aspects of working with new software. Switched to in situ composition once comfortable.
Composing for unfamiliar genres of music without leaning into Orientalist stereotypes	Listening to broad range of cultural music and absorbing all available information on the topic. Learn to play traditional songs and deconstructing them to their rudiments.
Communicating effectively with non-English speaking team	Navigating language barriers, developing an empathy and understanding that direct use language is not inherently rude or ill-intended.

Itch Page

chance based dungeon crawler

Yahtzee Dungeon

Technical Specs:
Created for GMTK (22) game jam using Unreal. Music dynamically reacts to the player's actions and intensifies as their party's health depleats.

Project Challenges	Learning Outcomes
Expression of dynamic music was tied to a poorly tested gameplay loop	Plan audio scope according to length of the project
Stacked audio tracks become misaligned throughout the course of the game	Become self-sufficient with in-engine audio implementation, to be able to test and tweak systems more easily.
Last minute hustle to get audio working	Front load audio programming and DYI so as to not be dependent on a programmer.

Itch.io page

Jams

Game	Jam	Contribution
Current	N64brew Game Jam 24	Music
Current	NESDev Compo 24	Music
Love Craftin'	Griffith 24hr Game Jam	Music & SFX
Buscón de Tormes	GBA Jam 2024	Music & SFX
Skate Animation	Loop de Loop May24	SFX/Foley
Marching Animation	Loop de Loop March24	Music
Mixed Martial Laughs	GGJ24	Music
Mixolydian	Bigmode Game Jam 23	Music
Haunted House	GMTK23	Music
Little Lief	GGJ23	Music & SFX
Dead Ritual	N64brew Game Jam 22	Music
Bottle Call Sal	48 Hour Film Project 22	Music
Yahtzee Dungeon	GMTK22	Music & SFX
Cubic Zirconia	QUT Game Jam 22	Music & SFX