Freelancers are oftentimes found in a position where they're constantly working to make ends meet, or go through long periods of drought with no paid work. This is a recorded talk for High Score 2021

Subscribe to my newsletter for more free advice on developing a sustainable and fulfilling career: https://chelwongaudio.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=bd2cb108775a4d2da5586d11e&id=fe705af507 Welcome back to Composer Soft Skills! Don't hold back! We've learned already learned how to network and close deals, but let's go over ways to make yourself more visible and also prove that you're the go to person for the job! (Also thanks to Karina Pardus! https://twitter.com/CoyCompositions) 0:00 Intro 0:14 Getting over the mental hurdle 2:34 Your Selling Point 3:46 How to Present Yourself 4:50 All About Social Media 5:42 Talent Stack (and more Social Media) 7:47 Website Basics

Subscribe to my newsletter for more free advice on developing a sustainable and fulfilling career: https://chelwongaudio.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=bd2cb108775a4d2da5586d11e&id=fe705af507 Welcome back to Composer Soft Skills! When the opportunity arrives you want to be ready! Here's actionable advice for closing the deal! 0:00 Intro 0:45 Getting hired from social media 4:58 Getting Hired from networking 6:08 How to approach open job applications 8:49 Summary and additional advice 5 Tips On How To Network Better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIbvyhsaElo&list=PL6Ktu90bC2nyCDHFoCHEGS7xb5tN7dAWN&index=1&ab_channel=ChelWong

Subscribe to my newsletter for more free advice on developing a sustainable and fulfilling career: https://chelwongaudio.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=bd2cb108775a4d2da5586d11e&id=fe705af507 Welcome to my new series called Composer Soft Skills! I'll be rolling out new videos slowly about how to improve your soft skills to find and land better clients and improve your networking. These tips work both for in person and online. 0:00 Intro 0:41 Tip #1 1:32 Tip #2 3:16 Tip #3 3:59 Tip #4 4:48 Tip #5 6:13 Closing Thoughts

Subscribe to my newsletter for more free advice on developing a sustainable and fulfilling career: https://chelwongaudio.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=bd2cb108775a4d2da5586d11e&id=fe705af507 Welcome back to Composer Soft Skills! Here's part 1 for How To Break Into the Industry! This episode is aimed towards beginners and novices and in part 2 we will talk about getting to the next level of your career! 0:00 Intro 0:50 Tip #1 1:06 Tip #2 3:03 NETWORK 4:31 Tip #4 4:56 Tip #5 5:45 Other Possible Routes and Closing Thoughts Game Dev Network Discord: https://discord.gg/vBtaHFfpc5 Game Dev League Discord: https://discord.gg/YmPWnEMrD9

Subscribe to my newsletter for more free advice on developing a sustainable and fulfilling career: https://chelwongaudio.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=bd2cb108775a4d2da5586d11e&id=fe705af507 Welcome back to Composer Soft Skills! Here's part 2 for How To Break Into the Industry! This episode will be more advanced and will be for more intermediate individuals looking to get to the next level 0:00 Intro 0:56 Tip #1 1:42 Tip #2 2:10 Tip #3 3:11 Tip #4 3:38 Reviewing Progress from Part 1

Eva/Booribap-Host: https://twitter.com/BooriBap https://www.twitch.tv/booribap Chel Wong: https://twitter.com/ChelWongAudio Whisker Squadron Kickstarter!! : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flippfly/whisker-squadron Miranda Due: https://twitter.com/MirandaDue Kate Sánchez: https://twitter.com/OhMyMithrandir https://butwhythopodcast.com/ Juan Vaca: https://twitter.com/juancow https://www.latinxingaming.com/ Kyle Royce: https://twitter.com/KyleRoycePlays https://www.twitch.tv/kyleroyceplays

Chel is an award winning composer for games such as Kine and Watch This Space. She joins us today to talk about making it as a freelancer and offering her tips for networking. #videogames #gamedevelopment

A somewhat technical talk about my experience with writing layered music that stacks up dynamically based on gameplay! For more of my stuff check out Chelwongaudio.com 0:00 Intro 2:15 Why Layered Music? 11:32 How do you do Layered Music? 15:50 The Hard Part 25:25 Pitfalls 30:30 Key Takeaways 31:49 Questions! This talk was given for the Discord Server I moderate "Beats to Play Games To" If you are interested in joining, feel free to DM me on Twitter or Instagram @ChelWongAudio or email me at Chelwongaudio@gmail.com (This footage was recorded by Kyle "Kylydian" Martin, one of the admins of the Discord, no it's not my fault his audio was mono [thought I exported it fixed but apparently didn't actually happen])