Matthijs Koster

Rift Riff is OUT NOW! Play the game, feel the chaos, and most of all: listen. The original soundtrack is coming soon to stream and buy, but for now… go make some noise: 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

Build and command your flying fortress at #IndieShowcaseNL! 🏰 Slay monsters, loot towns, bargain for goods and upgrade your keep to cleanse the realm before the demons emerge in Castle Away, announced this week by @renegade-games.bsky.social, @simkaart.co and @matthijskoster.com 🔥

Announcing CASTLE AWAY! In which you build and command a flying fortress to slay the demons invading your world! A quick-to-pick-up, run-based strategy game focused on crafting combat synergies on your little castle grid. Let me know what you think! #indiegame #gamedev #roguelite

Well, that happend. But yeah, for me it was great to be nominated for my first game ever. Motivates me to keep on doing what I do!

Rift Riff's audio guy @matthijskoster.com just HALVED Rift Riff's binary size! we were already using Vorbis compression (file ext: .ogg) but found that setting the export quality to the lowest number possible barely made a difference in audio quality, yet reducing file size by 75-90%! #gamedev

Female moths appear to avoid laying their eggs on dehydrated plants based on the sounds they emit. www.iflscience.com/for-the-firs...

It's still so amazing to me that this is all possible in 2D. Hurray for y-sorting! #godot #pixelart #indiegame #2D

The new Speech-to-Text feature from Pro Tools will be a game-changer for me! “Did we record this?” won’t be a long, painful, time-consuming question anymore. And that’s not the only thing that’s good about this update.👌

This exhibition is a full sensory experience — including sound. My 3,5-minute soundscape takes you through the process of preparing a complete dish: from chopping and kitchen machines to handling fresh ingredients, plating, and pouring drinks. 🍽️🧄🧅🧀🥗🥂

As an Apple Notes power user, the one thing that always bugged me was the lack of a keyboard shortcut for Strikethrough. After running into it for the thousandth time, I finally looked it up — turns out it’s ridiculously simple (see screenshot). Anyone else been there?

Such banger tracks made by the one and only @matthijskoster.com. Check it out and vibe to the summer weather with the Rift Riff OST 🎉🏝️🌞🍹

As of popular request: Rift Riff's original soundtrack is OUT NOW!! Available on all streaming platforms today. And if you'd like to support further development of the game, consider getting it through Steam :D Made by musician @matthijskoster.com

Our son Otto is almost 6 months old! I thought it would be fun to celebrate it by naming a song after him. I made this piece of music in 3 hours, in a creative burst. It’s playful, cheerful and headstrong. Just like Otto himself ❤️ Listen: play.mw.fm/rift-riff-or...

The Colossal Foundation has teamed up with Yellowstone Forever, the Yellowstone Wolf Project, and Grizzly Systems to innovate new tech that uses bioacoustics and artificial intelligence (AI) to decode wolf communication. 🐺 www.iflscience.com/how-bioacous...

⚠️ Audio-nerd alert — Just found out that iZotope's Standalone RX Audio Editor has a really nice batch processor, which also runs third-party plug-ins. Saved me tons of time. Just hit ⌘+B! #audio #izotope #rx

Total disk-space 70,43 GB • music & sounddesign for Rift Riff Just calculated all folders together. I guess I could work a little more economically, but it doesn't feel like all that much for a year of work.

This one will be out this Friday! play.mw.fm/rift-riff-or...

Learned something about Music today: Apparently, you can’t use the abbreviation ‘OST’ in your album title. I guess this is a stylistic choice they made? Went for Original Game Soundtrack instead. What do you think?

Rift Riff OST is in the works! Here's a mockup of the artwork (no vinyl planned yet :P). We'll be releasing it very soon as part of a bundle on Steam. Stay tuned! #soundtrack #ost #indiegame #vinyl #graphicdesign

There is more! We’re releasing the soundtrack next weak 🥂 but you can hear everything right now already inside the rifts: store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

Sound on! 🔊 Rift Riff is OUT NOW and we made this banger gameplay trailer. Music and sounds by @matthijskoster.com

The dream team! @adriaan.games @simkaart.co @professionalpanda.bsky.social @matthijskoster.com

Rift Riff is OUT NOW!! Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/... Buy it Try it Review it Repost the heck outa’ this!!1! … and here's a feature trailer explaining what I think is noteworthy about our tower defense game! youtu.be/ePCOuvXU-t0

Rift Riff is OUT NOW! I took a leap and let go of most of my freelance work to focus on this game. I never expected it to take a year and a half—but here we are! :D It’s been creatively exhilarating working with the team, and I’m so proud of the little game we’ve built. #godot #pixelart #indiedev

Exciting updates from MOST! We've been diving into some fascinating projects recently. Also, bidding farewell to Diederik — our time together was brief but impactful. most.amsterdam/notes/news-f...

Made in #godot #godotengine with illustrator @simkaart.co, programmer @franzlazerte.bsky.social, music and sound guy @matthijskoster.com, and enemy wave designer @professionalpanda.bsky.social! #gamedev #indiegame

New demo of our tower defense game Rift Riff is up on Steam. Third game I did art for, first game I also did all #pixelart animations for. Made entirely in #godot <3 Now spreading the word, gathering feedback, and transitioning into production for release! store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

Any (game-)music producers/sound designers-Starterspacks that I should know of? I'd like to connect to fellow creators! #game #audio #godot #sounddesign #music

Whoops. Testing new animations for towers and projectiles. Forgot to update the explosions to something a little more subtle 😅 #animation #gamedev #towerdefense #godot #pixelart

Pixel art is so interesting. What each pixel means is really dependent on what resolution you're working in. (thread) #pixelart

This is our #godot audio busses setup atm. I like to keep all bus-levels at zero and adjust the ceiling level of the HardLimiters instead. The Compressors have sidechains from other busses so, for instance, Interface sounds push back other sounds. What is your take on this?

Working on music & sounddesign for my first game ever — Rift Riff. I would love to have some feedback on how it goes so far. Any opinions? What is your favourite game in terms of music and/or sound? #Godot #Ableton #ProTools www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLw5...

The entire Rift Riff team joined Bluesky today! @simkaart.bsky.social does graphics, UI, UX, a bit of game design, and a bit of marketing. @franzlazerte.bsky.social does programming and a bit of game design. @matthijskoster.bsky.social does music & sound design. Follow them. Love them. Go.