In late 2024, a former coworker and buddy of mine reached out. He was solo developing a video game, and wanted to commission some music for the trailer. The game is a dark fantasy-themed dungeon crawler, but instead of stereotypical classical soundtrack, he wanted something more interesting: an all-electronic sound, with creepy ambience ramping up to intense beat-driven industrial. Now, I like that kind of music, but could I make it? As it turns out, yeah — I think I did a pretty good job all things considered.
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— The Spiral (@_the_spiral) October 11, 2024
The trailer went up, and my music was playing on an actual Steam page! Pretty cool, but then it got cooler when Rob came back and asked me to compose the music for the whole game. We crunched a bit to get some basic tracks in place for the public demo’s debut at a February Steam Next Fest, and then added a few more tracks to round things out for the release.
I have a project page up now that goes into a bit more of my process and approach — and my new alter ego, MECHANOTRON, debuting with this album.
You can follow my electronic-music persona now on Bandcamp:
The game is available now on Steam: