@PuffballsUnited launched The Henry Stickmin Collection on Steam! This puts a bow on an incredible set of choose-your-own-path games. HUGE congratulations to Puffballs for completing this decade-long project! :D
In addition to a whole new game, Completing the Mission, the five original games were all remastered for the collection:
I'm making a post about this because I created some music for the Collection!
This post shows the music I made for the games.
Please also check out the full playlist, featuring over a dozen of other talented musicians!
A Feeling of Tread
Game in collection: Completing the Mission.
This was scored for one of the animations. The version in-game has a different BPM, but otherwise I fit the whole track around the section I scored. I'm super pleased with how it turned out! Also I'm pretty proud of the sharp style that emerged for the cover art and visualizer.
360 No Hope
Game in collection: Fleeing the Complex.
There were some fun challenges with creating this one, like creating a drop that sounds okay when heavily distorted, and living up to a rather classic scene. A lot of people question why the title is so bleak sounding haha - I simply came up with dumb wordplay relating to the scene; it's a play on the failure to perform a "360 No Scope".
Drum and Chase
Game in collection: Escaping the Prison.
This one is simply a short drum and bass loop I created for - surprisingly - a chase scene. I ended up with lots of variations as I honed in the style, so I guess I could always reuse some of the elements to make a full track of some sort. But for now, I'm okay with it just being a loop.
Car Horn
Game in collection: Stealing the Diamond.
This is the only track I did not make specifically for the game; I made this one back in 2016. It was used in a win/credits sequence, so hopefully people will enjoy celebrating with the sounds of a car alarm going off outside my dorm window when I was at university. Beep!
Neat!
That's that! I give my endless thanks to Puffballs for offering the awesome and rare opportunity to make EDM for The Henry Stickmin Collection. It's definitely a once-in-a-lifetime thing that I couldn't turn down!
If you haven't already, check it all out on Steam, and give @PuffballsUnited some love :D
Take care, and thanks for reading this! <3
- Zanz
PuffballsUnited
Thanks for writing some awesome tunes! They fit so well!
Zanzlanz
Hey my pleasure, any time! I'm really happy they worked out, thank you so much!
And again, congratulations on the successful release so far - I hope it continues to gather much love and attention <3