C¥BER $HRED TOUR: 17th June - 17th July 2022 I went on my first tour just over a month ago! I traveled almost half of the US, we visited so many different states, did as much sightseeing as possible, met so many lovely people, ate so much good food, and most importantly I was able to experience live music every single day for a whole month! The headliner of the tour was Rings of Saturn, they played their newest self-titled album live for the first time and I had the pleasure

The Museum of Imagined Futures, launches on the 1st of July 2022 as part of StoryTrails - the UK's largest immersive storytelling project with AR trails, spatial maps, and VR experiences. This ambitious project was spearheaded by StoryFutures Academy , part of Unboxed with partners including BBC , British Film Institute (BFI) , Nexus Studios , The Reading Agency . The Museum of Imagined Futures VR experience can seen in 15 UK libraries in Summer 2022 as part of the StoryTrai

Rings of Saturn has just released their newest and first self-titled album on 15/06/2022 🎉 I can finally tell everyone what I have been working on! 🥳 I worked on a few of the new songs (Kronos, Genesis, Mind Palace, Shinigami) as a pianist, orchestral producer, and composer. It has been incredibly rewarding and so much fun working with extremely talented and like-minded individuals. It has been an absolute pleasure ♥ Thank you @ringsofsaturnbandofficial @lethal_beatz @joe

Firstly... The Baby In Yellow now has over 60 million downloads! 🥳 I cannot comprehend how much this game has grown since I started working on it?! It's been an incredible journey, I am so lucky and grateful for everything I have been through this past year ♥ Jacksepticeye has one of the biggest channels for gaming on YouTube, he currently has 28.5 million subscribers and has amassed over 15 billion views in the span of his YouTube career. He recently posted a new video on h

For the past 2 months, I've been working as a sound designer and composer on the virtual reality experience: The Museum of Imagined Futures. This experience will be a part of StoryTrails https://story-trails.com/ "StoryTrails harnesses the magic of immersive storytelling to bring to life untold stories from the past, through the magic of the 3D internet using augmented and virtual reality to reanimate public spaces in towns and cities across the UK. Audiences will time-trave

It's been 6 months since I graduated from dBs Institute of Sound & Digital Technologies on the 4th of November 2021. I achieved a First Class Honours in my bachelor's degree studying Sound for Games & Apps! 🎓 thank you for all the memories we made in the 3 years together! 🖤🐻🖤 05/05/2022

Back in 2020 when I participated in the Global Game Jam I had the pleasure to meet and jam with multi-award-winning artist Alix Briskham ( https://www.alixbriskham.com/ ) around March 2021 she mentioned she was working on a new podcast about humanity's most intriguing theories called "Query the Theory" and it would be on Spotify. With a short brief and a logo, I composed some spooky Lo-Fi vibes for the podcast ❤ it has finally been released and it's available to listen to now

I'm back with another interview article from dBs Sound & Music Institute, kindly written by Chris Mackin! Thank you so much! ❤ Transcription: We catch up with Sound for Games & Apps graduate Virginia Leo to celebrate her scholarship with Akash Thakkar and discuss what the future holds. From scoring the music for Team Terrible's hit game 'The Baby in Yellow' and short documentary 'Amplexus: Amphibians After Dark', to helping craft new and exciting worlds at Game Jam 2022 and L

The LD50 game jam results are in! 🥳 There were 1923 submissions and we ranked 160th! Basically, that means we were in the top 8%, that is pretty awesome news! I am so pleased and overwhelmed by all the positive comments we received. I worked on all of the audio during the jam and it's so amazing seeing we ranked 74th in the audio category... That's the top 3% ?! Akubi Overall: 160 th Fun: 209 th Innovation: 1114 th Theme: 669 th Graphics: 53 rd Audio: 74 th Humor: 757 th Moo

Mar 28, 2022 I have finally rebranded my website and all of my social media with a new artist! I had an idea of creating a piano with black and white cats as the keys whilst I was looking at my black and white cat 😹 I thought this concept would be fun but still lowkey professional. I feel like a website isn't only a place to show your work but also a place to show your personality. I can't believe my website is almost 4 years old already and it's so crazy to see how drastica

I just found out that I'm one of the lucky few people who got a scholarship for The Game Industry Professional Course!!! I'm so excited to meet and study with Akash Thakkar ❤ There are 50 slots available for the course and 5 scholarship slots available! 😨 Akash Thakkar has been in the gaming industry for over 8 years as a composer and sound designer. He's worked on award-winning and best-selling projects like Hyper Light Drifter and Destiny. He has also worked with dozens of

Yesterday was the last day of LD50, it was also my first time participating in this jam! The theme this year was "delay the inevitable" so we created "Akubi" the narcoleptic samurai who must stay awake long enough to reach the other side of the evil forest to finally rest in his bed. All the music and art was created during the jam. Akubi was made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 50 Play Now! https://teamterrible.itch.io/akubi CREDITS Code : Aaron Baumbach Art : Luke Blick Music/S

You can now download the sheet music for The Baby In Yellow from my Shop, link below: https://www.virginia-leo.com/category/all-products Music composed by Virginia Leo

A year ago I helped organise an online kids game jam with participants aged 6-15 years old, it was one of the most rewarding and fun experiences in my career so far! It stemmed a new passion in me for education in that age group, therefore, when it came to writing my dissertation I actually chose the topic of gamification in education, especially for music theory. It was quite stressful during my final year at university and I had to conduct primary research in times of a pan

Under the cover of darkness an army of amphibians employ drastic techniques to sire offspring of their own. 'Amplexus' is a short documentary made by Andrew Salter & Adam Hearne which quite literally sheds light on the amphibians living in central Bristol and what they get up to under the cover of darkness. Amphibians are one of the most endangered groups of animals worldwide. Habitat loss is a major contributor to this. When making this film, it was reassuring to see such a

This years theme was "duality" so we came up with a game that incorporates the theme in quite a few ways! The duality between hot/cold inspired us to create a game about serving tea at different temperatures. We were also inspired by the duality of life/death, therefore, our game revolves around a Chinese deity; Bai Wuchang who helps guide spirits to the afterlife by serving them tea! Another interesting fact is that Heibai Wuchang means "Black and White Impermanence" (anothe

A couple months ago I received an email from a newly formed indie game studio called Team Terrible (https://itch.io/profile/teamterrible) that reached out to me for some potential work. They noticed I had taken part in a variety of game jams in the past and that the game they had been working on was also formed from a game jam last year. In the last few months they have gained a ton of success on their game "The Baby In Yellow" which is a Lovecraftian-inspired babysitting ga

A few months ago I received an email from a student at Berklee asking for an interview. We arranged a call and talked for a few hours, so basically we kept in touch and became friends! She told me she was going to start a Podcast on Spotify called 'The Composer's Life' and if I would like to take part in an episode. Therefore, if you are interested in knowing a bit about my personal experience with composition and other interesting related topics give it a listen! SPOTIFY LIN

May 15, 2021 The 7 Day Video Game Music challenge is over! We all joined the founder of the Video Game Music Academy, Dan Hulsman on a listening party livestream where we all listened to everyone's daily tracks they submitted. David Wise also joined us to listen to the livestream and give feedback for an hour but unfortunately he didn't stick around long enough to hear my music. However, he will be providing 1 to 1 feedback on a few composers next week. Fingers crossed I get

The results of the Nordic Game Jam 2021 are in! My teams game came 2nd and 3rd in multiple categories and a short compilation video of all 36 entries were posted to Twitter with my 'Game On!' soundtrack playing in the background. Thank you so much! ❤ Link to view submissions and results: https://itch.io/jam/nordic-game-jam-2021/results Link to the #NGJ21 Twitter compilation video: https://twitter.com/NordicGameJam/status/1393899780506624000