GameXplain - Cool Bits
8Cool Bits, GameXplain's video game trivia series, is back after its five-year hiatus! And with its return is the debut of a new theme that was in the works for the past decade. This one has quite the story behind it. In December 2014, I pitched the idea of creating an original theme for Cool Bits to replace the Groovy Mandolin royalty-free theme, accompanied by an uninitialised substitution for the sound effect used at the time. A couple of melody ideas were developed during this process. Sadly, nothing really nailed the appropriate flavour, so I had to shelf the theme for a while. But over the next few years, I dabbled with revamping it by transcribing it over to WarioWare D.I.Y.'s Record MakerMatic to establish a chiptune base. The theme improved a lot from there, and I much more recently brought it back over to Cakewalk. After significant refinement and expansion, it developed into what it is now.
The piece starts with an arrangement of Groovy Mandolin for its intro, but it soon transitions into an original melody. Interestingly enough, this chosen melody was used in GameXplain's discontinued podcast, Real Talk, after being imagined for Cool Bits first, but this association now ties the motifs for GameXplain practically into musical lore. Ever since being transferred from chiptune form, the composition stayed almost purely synth, with an accoustic piano as the exception. It also retained the swung note flow. Together, the catchy sound is the 'Cool' and the digital elements are the 'Bits'. Imagine that! If this is well-received, I may upload the WarioWare D.I.Y. version also upon request. Please enjoy this theme that was ten years in the making!
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Cool Bits logo was created by Tom Arnold. (https://x.com/RaginTombo)