Background to the Music Library

VGML is an amazing community, with people sharing music, taking on the composing challenges and generally talking about the VGM they love. We also have the exciting prospect of writing music for our own virtual orchestra, and a couple of projects underway for game mods. All of this is awesome, and helps us have fun and build up skills. The other side of VGML is trying to work out how to promote members' work, for those looking to earn something from their music. A lot of people dream of writing music for an actual video game one day.

The Composer Collective is an initiative to create an Original VGM Music Library for game devs and content creators to use, and to offer a license management and distribution system to manage VGML members music to collect royalties and income FOR members. 

The rational is the following:

• It's really hard to establish yourself as a music maker in an over-saturated market. Going it alone is tough for aspiring and emerging artists.

• Most people don't have the skills or access to manage licensing or royalty collection by themselves.

• A lot of commercial services offering to help are of course commercial organisations needing to make a profit. It feels a bit like feeding the system that is already stacked against the small independent artist.

• We need to provide a compelling reason for people to come to us, to find our video game music, and to make it easy for them to use it in their projects.

• We have a lot of music that members have already created that could be offered to game devs and content creators to license and use in their projects.

Hence, the Music Library was created. Read more details here.

Commissions and Bespoke Music

Sometimes music from a library is not what you need... you might want to commission bespoke music, or license music exclusively. The Commissions Directory will help you find the right composer for your project.