Purple Lum: Recent Episodes
Purple Lum
I am Danae Dekker, a composer and technical audio designer for games and interactive media.
I'm fascinated by musical storytelling in a fantastical and whimsical setting, which I apply in autonomous compositions, games and interactive media. Moreover I have a broad knowledge of software and coding skills to implement music and audio in any interactive project.
, which doesn't really come as a surprise, since it's so ethereal sounding. Please enjoy this remastered orchestrated version!Music composed by Tim Clarke and Christopher Stevens and remastered by Danae Dekker
Enjoy this re-orchestrated and extended version of the iconic music that plays in the Hall of Doors (and main menu) of Rayman 2: The Great Escape.Music composed by Eric Chevalier and remastered by Danae Dekker
, which I composed in 2017 for an assignment about getting to know what makes your music unique.
Leap into a whimsical world where charm meets challenge in a delightful 2.5D stylized pixel art environment. Designed with a cute, enchanting aesthetic, this game will whisk you away to a fantastical realm where speed is the flavor you need to collect and deliver your coffee as fast as possible.You won’t have to do this alone, with the help of your trusty frog summon called Bean and your enthusiastic goat summon called Brew no challenge will be impossible for you.Bean and Brew was made for Ludum Dare 55 by Aurora, Danae, Evee, Luna and Taya of the Ludum Fairies team. The game can be played in the browser or downloaded for Windows (recommended) at https://runicpixels.itch.io/ludum-dare-55.
Roots of Skye is a retro-style adventure game about a girl from a viking elf clan wanting to discover her elven roots. She wants to learn more about her forgotten ancestors and decides to sail towards the Skye tree and climb it to discover its secrets and learn about her past. On her journey she decided to collect mushrooms as a travelling snack. Many, many mushrooms...This weekend I joined Global Game Jam 2023 with Arto Koistinen, Auroranekai, Flashkirby and Luna van Egdom, where we made an awesomely cute 3D platformer game.Play the game at https://runicpixels.itch.io/roots-of-skye.
You’re the newly appointed guardian of the Fairy Forest! It’s the easiest job in the world! Absolutely nothing can go wrong! Or so they say...For Ludum Dare 52 I made a lovely RPG-like alchemy game together with Arto Koistinen, Luna van Egdom, Frank Rombouts and Nekkohime. This soundtrack might be the longest I've ever written for a game jam!Play the game at https://arzi.itch.io/ld52 and rate at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/warden-of-the-woods.
In 2022 I helped Luna van Egdom a.k.a. RunicPixels with her graduation project Feyrune, by making a whimsical and feylike soundtrack and sound effects to accompany her enchanting take on modern pixel art.Watch a video of the gameplay at:www.youtube.com/watch?v=30kL41BxsxQ
Last weekend I worked on a little game for the Ludum Dare 50 game jam. together with Arto Koistinen and Luna van Egdom.
Sakura Shrine is a narrative tower defence game that is not a very tower defence game where you play as the shrine maiden of the Sacred Sakura who needs to perform the rite to bring spring to the lands, but having to defeat snow demons in the meantime who try to delay the inevitable change of seasons.
The game can be played online at: https://arzi.itch.io/ld50
Watch a video of the gameplay at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbBPjZCHw-s
As a long time fan of the early Rayman games, I've remastered the audio of the intro of Rayman 2: The Great Escape. Using my skills as a composer for games, I re-orchestrated the iconic track "Prologue ~ Anguish and Pain" into an epic orchestral version, but still reminiscent of the original. If you listen carefully, you'll even hear a hint to the Robo-Pirate music "On the Front Lines" in the percussion!
Discover the duality between being either a chonky buff cat or an agile mage cat in the streets of ancient Greece.
Last weekend I worked on the audio, music and some coding for Cathens, a small platformer about the duality of strength and wisdom, for Global Game Jam 2022. Play the game now at https://cheezegami.itch.io/cathens!
Mirrors tells us about how similar yet different people in love can be. This track is featured on my EP Starcrossed, that released Dec 1st, 2021.
Journey to the Northern lights tells about an adventure of a lifetime to discover the unknown, something that a particular elf has been loning for her entire life. This track is featured on my EP Starcrossed, that released Dec 1st, 2021.
This is the newest remix of my 2012 track "We In Heaven", which I still consider one of the most influential tracks for my current style.
Art by Yuuike: https://www.deviantart.com/yuuike/art/Project-08-Gift-of-Light-516079857
What happens when one careless faerie doesn't pay attention where she's flying? She gets caught in a spider's web, of course. This is a orchestral piece I composed, which is based on a short story I wrote some time ago.
Art by faile35: https://www.deviantart.com/faile35/art/Fairy-in-the-Spiderweb-I-32641548
This piece is inspired by Maricu Mana's DTIYS challenge going on at her Twitter. Her art tells the story of Lynx, who loves to sneak away from their royal duties and spend time in their secret observatory, drifting away in the ocean of stars.
Artwork by Maricu Mana: https://twitter.com/Maricu_Mana/
Last weekend I worked on the game "Shards of Me" for the 49th Ludum Dare game jam together with Craftgineer! I was happy to help him out with music, sound effects and their implementation too. You can play the game right in your browser at https://craftgineer.itch.io/shards-of-me.
Every day we deal with problems that occur during the day. Sometimes those problems pile up and we wait to deal with them. In some realities those problems can manifest into something physical, and entrap us within ourselves. Find the crystalized negativity and destroy them so that you can escape! Along the way you will find shards of yourself, maybe they can help?
Secrets everywhere... I'm happy to share this piece of music I recently made for a game that's still in the works. Stay tuned for more on this really awesome project in the future!
I was commissioned to compose a mysterious musical piece for a secret area in the game FutureMMO, a single player role playing game developed by Lost Guardian Games that captures the nostalgia of MMORPGs from the early 2000s.
Find out more about the game at https://lostguardiangames.itch.io/futuremmo.
This is the main theme for Invisible Wings, the visual novel I've been working on for the past year and a half. The story revolves around Dawn, a young woman of faerie descent, as she tries to find answers to her own identity in a modern world, where faeries and humans were supposed to live in harmony.
Play Invisible Wings at Steam and Itch.io via https://invisiblewingsgame.com/.
Explore a mysterious magical forest as a lost fairy on her way back home. Encounter mythical creatures and help them find what they lost.
This weekend I did the music and audio for Fairy Lost, a small and pretty exploration game, for Global Game Jam 2021. You can play and rate the game at https://itch.io/jam/global-game-jam-nl-2021/rate/902457.
In december I composed the main theme for the upcoming visual novel of a friend of mine, with working title Eros. It's a simple, playful melody that alludes to the story that does not take itself too seriously.
Artwork from the game by Lahley.
What better way to celebrate Christmas than with new music? This piece was inspired by my own track "Celestine II", which I conjured up back in 2013, along with a spoonful of the epic orchestra from Two Steps From Hell and the vibe from big movies and games! Have a merry Christmas and all the best for the upcoming year!
Art by Maricu Mana: https://twitter.com/Maricu_Mana
Together with Arto Koistinen I participated in the 47th Ludum Dare game jam, where we made "Hope/Remember", a narrative game centered around a time loop in the week of Halloween. I helped developing the concept and did the music and audio design for the game!
Give it a try at https://arzi.itch.io/hoperemember!
If you ever had the chance to escape from reality, where would you go? This is a remastered version of "Once In A Blue Moon", a musical piece about a magical world filled with fantasy that you can only visit once in a blue moon.
Art by Liza Lambertini: http://www.faeriewood.com/
Colors Of The Night is my second EP and features four nighttime stories told in beautiful music.
Colors Of The Night is my second EP and features four nighttime stories told in beautiful music.
Colors Of The Night is my second EP and features four nighttime stories told in beautiful music.
Colors Of The Night is my second EP and features four nighttime stories told in beautiful music.
Last two months I worked on the soundtrack and game audio for "Room of Doom", a 2D multiplayer epic boss battle party game where brother and sister have to fight fearsome magma worms. Here you can listen to the soundtrack!
"Wings or no wings, human or faerie, it all doesn't matter. What matters is that I love you, no matter what."
This is the soundtrack I made for the applied game "Our Little Planet", a choice based game focused on sustainability. Visit our game team at https://www.facebook.com/WaterSandwich
An ode to keygen music!
This track is free to download and to use in any of your projects! - Unlooped version: https://danaedekker.com/assets/music/then-be-a-pirate.ogg - Looped version: https://danaedekker.com/assets/music/then-be-a-pirate-looped.ogg
Quand Les Fées Dorment tells us about the dreams that faeries will have when they sleep.
If you ever had the chance to escape from reality, where would you go? Once In A Blue Moon tells about a magical world filled with fantasy that you can only visit once in a blue moon.
Artwork by Liza Lambertini
This track is an uplifting and magical remix of the track Mycea, which tells the story of a girl that chose to be different.
Artwork by DestinyBlue
Originally made for a school assignment in creating meditative lyrical music, First Rain depicts the contrast between ignorance and clarity, resembling the first rainfall after a long dry time.
As the author, I could have used a full stop. To end my story. But instead I chose a semicolon; and to continue on.
This piece was a school assignment to compose a musical piece based on a work of art, so I chose DestinyBlue's artwork The Author, which can be found at https://destinyblue.deviantart.com/art/The-Author-676400524
Piano played by https://soundcloud.com/stijnpost
This track is a trance remix of https://soundcloud.com/sjorsb/unbeatable, which SjorsB made in 2013.
An orchestral track I wrote to perform with a flugelhorn solo at the annual Christmas dinner of my orchestra. Pad sound by www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic.
This is a remix of the track 'Eclipse', which I made with MandelSoft two months ago. Ambient and pad sounds by www.freesound.org/people/Erratic and http://www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic.
I still consider 'We In Heaven' one of the tracks that most influenced my style back in 2012 and defined my Celestial Trance genre until now. This is the third remake of this beautiful track.
An instrumental journey to the world of the Dragonfly Fairies. Forest ambient sound adapted from freesound.org/people/klankbeeld.
Layers, my new track, represents all of the ordered layers of chaos. In the world, in our minds or even in our hearts. A special thanks to MandelSoft!