HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

I guess I can't argue with that.

Let this be a lesson that regardless of how much thought is put into your music, if you don't have pop sensibilities, you'll run into a brick wall in more mainstream ventures.

No disrespect, Link, but the "these songs lack soul" comment is striking a nerve with me. "Soul" is such a poorly defined term that I see in arguments like "who's the better guitarist, Slash or Buckethead?" where there's always a Slash contingent that talks about how Slash is better because he has more soul. What kind of crap is that? Both guitarists are playing with feeling, but Buckethead uses more advanced techniques in order to express himself. Neither has more "soul." Frankly, I find Buckethead's work to be more honest, as Slash relies on blues cliches, but people find those cliches to be "soulful" because that fits their preconceived notions of what "soulful" is based on the music they're used to. Comparison aside, it's bullshit and an insult to an artist when you tell them they have no soul, when all they're trying to do is express themselves in the first place.

I actually found these pieces to be expressive, but they're just expressing a different emotional landscape. For a seventeen year old, you're producing really high quality work. However, the problem you're going to run into is already becoming evident: outside of academia, it's going to be difficult to find an audience for contemporary classical music, and that includes video game soundtracks. You're going to have to write more tonally and with an ear for pop if you're wanting to write for videogames--unless you plan on working on a soundtrack for a horror game or a more introspective indie game.

To add on to what Desertopa said, your game description should focus on what's interesting about your own game. Lisa (the First) has an incredibly minimal game description, which is fine, because the images sell the game. If your game can't sell itself through its images, sell the story or the gameplay. That's what I tried to do with a Very Long Rope: write a game description as if it were a teaser on the back of a book. It's hard to say if that worked or not, but it's doing pretty decently.

I think most of the characters that interact with him during the game would probably take your position in the "Should I stab Corigliano one-hundred times" argument.

If there's a path of least resistance, I've already found it.