Start by lurking on streets and park benches with a notepad, writing down what you notice. Then, lock yourself in a room and turn off the lights, and wait for your inner feelings to become so powerful.. they become a weapon. Use that weapon to get your message across. Shout that message from atop a mountain..

Dibs on Harribit the Spy as chiptune artist name

Study music theory extensively and then apply it tastefully

I just have tons of intros on my lsdj cart and keep making new ones

Same here!

I don't know, perhaps the order in which you create all of the elements of your song matters. I for example really can't come up with a melody or lead first and work the other way. Apparently, the real key is experimentation, and lots of it. It's neat to just keep things and see it slowly fall together.

Edited because I'm scared of conflict

now I'm curious

Do it.

You just find what system you want to work with, pick a good melody, and run with it.

You have no constraints when making music. Do whatever the fuck you want man.

If you think up songs you need to be able to write down (or put them into lsdj) your melodies SO YOU DON'T FORGET THEM. It's not hard to carry a gameboy all the time (just in case something comes to mind). Starting today, carry a voice recorder so you can hum tunes into it that you think of. you can come back to your ideas after you know how to decode them.

Really agreeing with that, even if you can't get yor voice in tune or you don't know how to sing, it is a good idea to carry a keyboard or synthesizer app in your device, if you don't have a gameboy to get the truly chiptune sound (duh)

But to compose chiptune, and music in general, you may also check the major and minor chords in priority, because those are the most used, add pretty cool and beauty ornaments and create your own atmosphere and concept of sounds, if you wanna be a more experimental-ish musician, but still being with the major and minor chords (not using noises and woooooobbbbbbles and ambient sounds) you should learn about the other types of chords: 7, add9, sus4, that create a more developed sound and a more consistent atmosphere.

If you want, check many chiptuners' soundcloud or their tracks in cm.o (my music too, as you wish) and check out melodies, samples, movements and dymamics, is a hard job if you want to get a good and satisfying sound. Thanks