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Hellos! I'm Valen Hinojosa, a 20 year old game dev from 🇨🇱. Between surviving life and college I work on homebrew programming for the Game Boy Color, tinker with random electronics and also do music!
They/ThemI began working on games in 2020, slowly moving from engines like Game Maker to fantasy consoles and currently the Nintendo Game Boy, learning a handful for programming languages along the way (Python, GDScript, Lua, C and GBZ80 Assembly). I enjoy creating small, fun games for competitions or as an exercise on new tools! You can find all my works on Itch.io.
Currently I'm working on my own Game Boy Color game using my own "engine" written in assembly. Alongside writing the engine, music and most of the design I've also written a plethora of tools to make the development framework very simple.
I've had an interest in videogame music since I was a kid, and thanks to my mother exposing me to the Beatles during my teen years I've built up a good amount of musical work.
I'm pretty experienced in chiptune and music trackers, which align pretty well with my programming background and have allowed me to work on low level audio coding for the Game Boy, which allowed me to work as a freelancing composer and "sound engineer" for a while. You can see most of that work on my freelancing page.
Alongside my chip work, I also write "real" music from time to time! Currently I still don't have any proper releases, the old version of this website used to host a couple of not-great audio snippets of demos, but until I can host audio data again that's not available (´•︵•`).
On the meanwhile, you can find some of my game music works on my Youtube channel.
If you need to get in touch with me for any reason, the easiest way is to reach out through my e-mail, which I check the most.
While I don't use it much currently, my Discord account is also an option, I go by coffeevalenbat.
