My name is Star Victoria Power

My name is Star Victoria Power and I write colorful music for colorful games. (and here are some of them!!)

My origins come from an unexpected place... sonic the hedgehog sprite comics.

For the uninitiated, a "sprite comic" was a popular genre of online content from the late nineties/early aughts - folks would rip graphics from video game and make comics out of them

I read... a lot of these. and they were mostly sonic themed.

I also grew up in poverty - we did have a computer and internet, but we were on painfully slow dial-up internet for the longest time.

I still remember the 3 hours I took to download the massive 6-megabyte sonic fan game, "Amy, One Girl Army"

So I had a lot of time on my hands - no youtubes or tiktoks or whatever. I needed something to do, so I decided, "hey, why don't I try to make some of these comics?"

coming back to that slow internet - I also really liked music! but I couldn't download 2, 3, 4 megabyte songs !!!

So what did I listen to? midi files. from vgmusic.com

Video game music midi files.

for the uninitiated - these files do not have recorded sound in them. They're essentially a set of instructions - digital sheetmusic - that your computer's (very bad) instruments would play back for you.

I downloaded so many of these.

Mostly Sonic the Hedgehog midis.

The patterned repeated itself. Eventually I said to myself, "hmm. I wonder if I could make midis."

"I wonder if I could make.. video game.. midis..."

"I should write music for video games."

I was about 13. and now here we are!

If you're curious how it went - check out my website! slide20xx.com (linked in my bio)

and get in touch if you're at gdc and want to meet up for a chat (or if you want to work together 😉)