How to Download Cycles

1. Click on the Cycles download button below.
2. Choose "Install" to install the game on the windows steam client.
3. Follow the on-screen prompts
4. Let it download the Full Version.
5. Once a game is downloaded, use the Windows Steam Client to play the game.

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This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Some games may not work or may break because Steam Proton is still at a very early stage.

1. Activating Steam Proton for Linux:
Proton is integrated into the Steam Client with "Steam Play." To activate proton, go into your steam client and click on Steam in the upper right corner. Then click on settings to open a new window. From here, click on the Steam Play button at the bottom of the panel. Click "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles."

Alternatively: Go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and turn on the "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" option.

Valve has tested and fixed some Steam titles and you will now be able to play most of them. However, if you want to go further and play titles that even Valve hasn't tested, toggle the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" option.

2. Choose a version
You should use the Steam Proton version recommended by Steam: 3.7-8. This is the most stable version of Steam Proton at the moment.

3. Restart your Steam
After you have successfully activated Steam Proton, click "OK" and Steam will ask you to restart it for the changes to take effect. Restart it. Your computer will now play all of steam's whitelisted games seamlessly.

4. Launch Stardew Valley on Linux:
Before you can use Steam Proton, you must first download the Stardew Valley Windows game from Steam. When you download Stardew Valley for the first time, you will notice that the download size is slightly larger than the size of the game.
This happens because Steam will download your chosen Steam Proton version with this game as well. After the download is complete, simply click the "Play" button.

Windows Pc Requirements

Minimum:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS *: 64bit, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
  
• Processor: X64 Dual Core CPU, 2+ GHz
  
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: Discrete GPU with 1GB RAM
  
• Storage: 2 GB available space
  
• Sound Card: Any

Recommended:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  
• OS *: 64 bit, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
  
• Processor: X64 Quad Core CPU, 3+ GHz
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 3070
  
• Storage: 2 GB available space
  
• Sound Card: Best with nice speakers/headphones

Linux Requirements

Minimum:

Recommended:

Mac Requirements

Minimum:

• Requires an Apple processor
  
• OS: macOS 12
  
• Processor: Apple M1
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: Apple M1
  
• Storage: 2 GB available space
  
• Sound Card: Any

Recommended:

• Requires an Apple processor
  
• OS: macOS 14
  
• Processor: Apple M1 Max
  
• Memory: 32 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: Apple M1 Max
  
• Storage: 2 GB available space
  
• Sound Card: Best with nice speakers/headphones

Cycles is a procedural music composition about appreciating a forest through all parts of its life cycle. Experience billions of unique generations of the piece.

Cycles is a procedural music composition about appreciating a forest through all parts of its life cycle.

What Is This?

Cycles is an audiovisual composition. When you launch Cycles, you can view a performance of the piece. If you let it run, it will create a new performance, then another, infinitely; these are completely different generations of the piece. This is because Cycles is procedurally generated, every time (like a Minecraft world). Each generation is related, and may sound kind of similar, but might sound totally different. There are billions of possible generations—you don't have to watch every one, of course, but it's nice to think that the one you're watching has probably never been seen by anyone else. You can even share a nice one with a friend if you'd like.

What Is This not?

Cycles is non-interactive—there are hotkeys, if you'd like to view a specific generation, or ensure a specific visual mode, but the piece generates automatically. You can watch the performance, but you won't perform it yourself.

Why Does It Exist?

Two reasons—one practical, one philosophical. First, I am a composer, and suddenly game engines have become an extremely legitimate tool for composing music. Not just writing music for games—actually composing with the procedural tools inside an engine (in this case, Unreal Engine 5). Despite this, few composers are doing so.

The second reason goes back to what the piece is about. Having lived in California for about a decade, I've found it challenging to see places I love burn in wildfires. I was excited to have the opportunity to create a work touching on this for Big Basin Redwood State Park (much of which burned in the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex fire), and immediately I thought that a procedural composition would be well-suited for this topic. Cycles continually generates new compositions, one after another—each iteration of the piece derives from the same source material and compositional rules, but the generation incorporates enough environmental chance that no two renderings are the same (and some are in fact very different).

Surprisingly, this algorithmic, "digital" feature represents the natural world quite closely. A forest that grows back after a fire is created from many of the same common inputs as the forest that came before it (species, weather, sun exposure, etc.); however, it won't grow back in exactly the same way. Recognizing these two aspects—the uniqueness of the moment in time, and the relationship to the same moment in other cycles—was helpful to me in appreciating fire as a natural part of a forest.

I hope you'll enjoy the music I've created with this process.

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