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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Someone needs to do a music PhD on English Civil War drum signals - you get to decipher these weird 17th C shorthands! #history #musicology #ecw #wargames #musictheory

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm on the Spanish side, commanding a 112 gun First Rate in the battle of Cape St. Vincent. We've started off decently, but the lead ship decided to order FIGHTING SAIL, as soon as the battle started, which sounds cool, but actually mean GO REALLY SLOW. Now half our line is swerving not to collide

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Playing in an age of sail Kriegsspiel game at the moment, ~50 players, each commanding their own ship. 10 minute order delay. communication only by signal flags. First person perspective from your ship only. Let me tell you, even staying in line formation is a massive challenge 😂 mass confusion!

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"I have seen things in this world that would make Isaac Newton crawl back into his mothers womb!" Eggers dropping the mad lines as usual - Nosferatu (2024) Love the hand-drawn looking title font too

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New music for #ruinsOfCalaworm! This is the last track required before the release this month! August 28th! This lovecraftian creepy-cute roguelike features NES synths, live viola, and a bizarre arsenal renaissance, baroque and 20th C contemporary elements. #screenshotsaturday #gamemusic #gamedev

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My face when I see the part for 1st flute has TWO notes in some places... and not in the cool multiphonics way.

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Adagio Con Fuoco - SLOW WITH FIRE Jensen Piano Concerto 1st movement, bar 135

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you read this comment then Abstract War Crimes is the

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Preparing some material for an upcoming talk: I needed to create the "Abstract-War Crimes" scale in order to rate various games. Where does YOUR game land? 😨 Checkers: Abstract, Medal of Honor: in the middle Train: war crimes, Operation Bøllebank: set in 1994 Bosnia, but not war crimes...

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's about time I finalized the score and parts for my Piano Concerto - written in the first half of 2020 and yet to be performed. There are some pretty wild pages! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZUR... Any orchestras out there want to play a new Piano Concerto?

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Keep forgetting I have a bluesky account so this post is about a month out of date 😂 Great track though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9BK...

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Massive respect to the people of Iran. Huge protests over the past 2 weeks. Government buildings burned, entire cities under protester control, police joining forces with protesters. Total internet and phone blackout for the past 24 hours. Follow my threads if you want more info @tom_jensen_composer

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Watching early Villeneuve movies - they're very intense and interesting. Incendies - re-living a middle eastern civil war ~1970s Enemy - quietly unsettling verging on very strange. Jake Gyllenhaal is awesome Prisoner - just started, Jake Gyllenhaal again, and Paul Dano PERFRECTLY cast...

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

New year - new music! Some fast-paced music in a kind-of-anime style for a friend with a super secret project! Having fun with guitars and minor 9th chords 🤯🤯 #gamemusic #music #anime

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

After 2 years of research and playtesting, I finally released my WW2 tabletop game. Covering ALL OF WW2. Yes, even Poland, China, Mongolia, Italy, North Africa, East Africa, Malaya, D-Day, Eastern Front, Pacific, and more! #WW2 #wargaming #wargames #tabletop site.wargamevault.com/product/5492...

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

IT AINT BREAD.... I got a baaaaad feeling about this one sarge #CCR #Vietnam #Breadthreads #Bread #music

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

>history book starts listing exact qtys of aircraft and armored vehicles by type & variant #ww2 #wargames #history

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

War by Sail rules: Took me 9 months to research and playtest. My partner thought I was nuts entering in all the stats for like 1200 ships and adding up the points values on a calculator... nowadays I use excel for points values🤣 www.wargamevault.com/en/product/2...

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Some more photos from last game. Next game (this time using the War by Sail rules) will be much more balanced. It's a fairly simple but accurate system. Ships take time to be worn down, and (generally) don't just magically sink in 1 turn. Each dice you roll is an actual gun on the ship too!

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Played some age of sail wargames last month, and I'LL DO IT AGAIN this month. This time playing my War by Sail rules. Last time we used Osprey's Fighting Sail, but they're pretty whack... French 1st rates literally sailing rings around British 1st Rates. Physics doesn't work like that 😂

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Rewatching the #StarWars #prequels - noticed this scene doesn't have any music - anyone have any idea why? seems like the kind of place where generally they would have some action score. Did they not have time to score it, or was it a deliberate choice not to have music? #filmmusic #music

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Time to play some card games! Wait a second... I can't read Persian... 😳🤔👀 #cardgames #gaming

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Tinkering with cover designs for an upcoming wargame series on special forces and insurgents. Co-op stealth campaign, maybe imagine Rangers of Shadow Deep set in the cold war... Vietnam, Soviet-Afghan War, Burma, LRDG... #wargames #coop Idea is to be rules light, with simple flowchart-ai patrols

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Suggest your melodies below, and I will fugue you up

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

If you see this, quote with a (tiny) tank. 1/300

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My threads reposts: >genocide >genocide >HANDY MICROSOFT EXCEL TIPS! >genocide >trump pooing his pants on live TV >genocide What a time to be alive 😨 At least I know how to use SEQUENCE now Also here are some scans of our cat Ayla. Scanning an object in motion can create unusual results...

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I'm sure all my followers are strongly anti-genocide, but if you're a supporter of Israel, feel free to check out my threads reposts, where I am daily reposting the utter evil and horror inflicted by Netanyahu and those Israelis determined to exterminate Palestine: www.threads.com/@tom_jensen_...

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Really enjoying the Night Dive System Shock 1 remake, so much fun to explore, and been so long that I barely remember anything from the original. Keep those fucking cyberspace sections away from me though, nearly quit on the last one. Nice they let you adjust the difficulty of those, but not in game

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Holy shit, your Quake brutalist jam map looks amazing! Didn't know you did some sly Quake mapping 😅

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

#ImportantVideos here I demonstrate how to open a bottle with a roll of toilet paper. Might win you a bet some day. #MacGyver #Beer #Ingenious #Ingenuity #gamedev #indiegame #gamedevelopment #composer

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

More music from #RuinsofCalaworm! - this time music for the Plateau of Leng: a soft snow falls, you trudge onwards, the eye glasses of your plague mask slowly crystalizing with ice from your own breath... #indiegame #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gamemusic #indegamedev #music #mystery #NES #Snow

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A music demo I wrote way back for @ubadler.bsky.social's #Archrebel - the game has come a long way since this (4 years ago!) - check out the latest on his page! #gamedev #gamemusic #indiedev #guitar #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #gamemusic

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Richard was killed when his motorcycle collided with a truck in Central Otago in 2017, on his way back from the gun club (where he was the armorer). Pistols and ammunition sprayed all over the road as his panniers exploded. Here's a picture of him, with me on the left and my brother on the right

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Remembering my step-dad Richard, who discovered a new species of Turtle and named it after Terry Pratchett! what a legend. He's on the left, explaining the fossil to Terry when he visited us. Richard was quite a character -PhD in geology, loved hunting, shooting, motorcycles, red-socks and sandals.

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Discovered some videos of the #ruinsOfCalaworm soundtrack... never before posted for some reason. Currently preparing a talk for a conference next month, and these will come in handy! Viola played by Alan Starrett NES Synths from tb Peach & SAC #gamemusic #indiedev #gamedev #music #viola

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A synergy of place and music - something just clicked, from back in October 2024

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Meant to post these photos too - I think from Lost Battles. One day I'd love to convert it to a traditional measure n' move wargame

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What makes a man turn to grids? Lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with a heart full of grid? Honestly I don't know, it has pros and cons - maybe not bad for quite large scale games like battalion level or massive ancient battles. Rommel and Philip Sabin's ancient rules come to mind

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Just 1 more day until #REPOSE is released! 👁‍🗨🔳💱💬 Here's another teaser from the soundtrack 🎵 - 30 seconds of ambient music feels like about 10 seconds of regular music 👀 #indiedev #indiegames #gamemusic #gaming #horror #ambient store.steampowered.com/app/3002510/...

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Amazing to see #Blackheart nominated in the NZ Game Awards! so cool 🤯🤯🥳 nzgamesfest.com/2025-finalis...

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

6 days until #REPOSE launches! @atis1.bsky.social's masterpiece of darkness and pixels. We will have a full soundtrack release, with Vinyl's available I believe... I had fun writing a few tracks for this - here's a teaser below. Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3002510/... #games #indiedev

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Playtesting my WW2 game Ostfront 2nd ed.... North Africa! Painted all these miniatures in around a month. Rules are going well, some minor (ok major) re-writes, but getting tighter each time! 6mm scale miniatures from Heroics and Ros #WW2 #wargames #wargaming #history #ww2history #tabletop

Things get feisty in "hell fire" pass as the British are bottlenecked and taken out by German Panzer IIIs

German Panzer VIs making short work of British light tanks on the left flank

Melee in the center, as the British bring their 25-pdrs to bear to clear the central objective of German infantry

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Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

France, I respect how hard you fought when Germany invaded in 1940, your tanks are very cute, but some of these tank designs are just WTF? Char B1 Front armor 40mm @ 20° slope Side armor: 55mm Rear armor: 55mm @ 43° slope WHY IS THE HEAVIEST ARMOR AT THE BACK AND THE LIGHTEST ARMOR AT THE FRONT!? 😳😳

Tom Jensen @composertom.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

All these books were by the same guy too... Really like his work, he challenges a lot of myths and misconceptions, and is generally pretty determined to balance sources from all sides of a conflict