Our mission is to create a community that celebrates creativity and technology, including the crafts of narrative design, artistic direction, music theory and game design. We delve into the elements of design that make up your favorite indie games, songs and other artistic media, so you can also apply them to your own creative projects and take them to the next level.
Whether it's pioneering techniques in groundbreaking games, poetic devices in creative non-fiction, the intricacies of visual and auditory composition, or showcasing wonderful creativity tools, we've got all your bases covered!
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Our Mission
Tales, Tunes & Tones is an independent publication focusing on design techniques across a broad range of creativity topics, ranging from writing and video games to music and visual arts. We especially love focusing on indie games, indie music producers and indie artists — we're all about creating from the heart.
We don't just showcase content; we also try to break down its various design components into helpful takeaways that you can use in your own projects. This is because we are not about just consuming content passively — we want you to be able to create and share your unique takes on the world.
I'm Tracey, the founder of Tales, Tunes & Tones. I'm an iOS engineer who's studied game design, and I'm super excited to share with you all the cool things I've learnt over the years!
Among other creative hobbies like digital drawing & traditional art, making electronic music & playing instruments, cooking technical desserts and attending creative writing workshops, I've worked as a professional programmer and like to volunteer as a writer in my spare time. I wanted to create an avenue where I could collate all the interesting observations I've found in one place, and that's what led to me starting Tales, Tunes & Tones.
I love shining a spotlight on my all favorite gems in the indie music/game/art scene and more, so that's also one of the things we like to focus on here. I'm super keen to hear about your favorite tips & tricks in your creative specialties, as well as all of the creative media that you love, so don't hesitate to join our community and say hi!
We really hope that you find our content helpful and that you learn a useful trick or two after visiting our site. We also want to hear about your creative projects so do please share with us!
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