ROETAKA'S PROFILE

Hi I'm Alex, the guy that was the composer for Rainfall. I managed to read the update recently and I am fairly annoyed by some of the comments. I literally do not have anywhere else to say my side of the story besides my facebook page. I did not back the project so I cannot comment or reach out to the backers.

First off I want to say I haven't been easy to work with this year. I'm not going to lie about that, if I was making a game I would be annoyed at me. I've dealt with a lot this year, including health problems.

There was hardly anything to work with and as mawk basically said, you need to have some game to get your assets in place. I was not being paid by the way and I was very easily replaceable. There is not much besides what you hear on the kickstarter that I made. I found it very difficult to work for Ghost, I get why he said some of the things he did but I found it hard to write music for his game, his vision. As much as I like to see game builds and art, I love to read the script or the story (which there was hardly much of) for inspiration, that's very important to me, especially for an RPG with a story. I'm very competent in what I do and I'm confident in my work, but this was hard to judge. I write some SNES music and things but I mostly write orchestral music, something Ghost was not keen on and besides one SNES track he heard of mine I don't think he really knew any of my other material. I was really down in the Spring about all of this and I lost my passion for music big time, so I quit in June because I did not want to be a burden. I was almost begged to stay and that I could not be replaced, I tried to tell myself to not lose opportunities and I agreed to come back when I found my passion again and that I could not do the sound effects - I wasn't being paid, this is a big task.

As time went on I started to get my passion back and said I would get back to work around September when I got an email that work was happening, there was a new spriter and there would be bi-weekly updates. This was encouraging. But then there was nothing. Around October I was offered the opportunity for a job in the new year if I trained for it, it was a no brainer considering my financial circumstances and I - perhaps too suddenly - quit the game again. Ghost replied with his frustration but told me there and then the game was going to be cancelled. I kept that to myself and waited for Ghost to announce his plans and update his backers himself.

I feel really bad about everything and for everyone who backed the game. I hope that they may get some compensation. And I must stress - I did not take a penny of that money. I'm not a saint and was not nearly as supportive as I could have been, but I was not happy and I could not continue. I may have rambled a bit but I had to tell some of this somewhere.