Month: April 2012
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Weekly Game Music: Prime #19 (Echochrome)
New week, new music. Here’s a soothing café for a mind-bending puzzle game: Prime #19, composed by Hideki Sakamoto. The music is intended to soothe the player to an otherwise bizarre and confusing puzzle game,Echochrome. As a puzzle game Echochrome offers no story. Despite this, the aesthetic of the game tells a lot. In a world outlined by…
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Strange Free Games: Cloud
New week, new game. Here’s a popular game that helped launched the infamous artsy game studio, ThatGameCompany. Cloud, is a Katamari-like game of collecting clouds and achieving various missions. Incidentally, it was one of the games I’ve introduced in the Weekly Game Music series as well. Cloud can be downloaded at University of Southern California’s website. Cloud describes a bed-ridden…
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Weekly Game Music: Redial (Bomberman Hero)
New week, new music. Let’s go old-school, this time, with the spectacular music from Bomberman Hero. Redial, by Jun Chikuma, is a simple techno-like melody with an addicting beat. It’s oddly calming for an epic adventure of an old mascot. Bomberman Hero has a simplistic, if familiar, story of an intergalactic evil organization emerging from the shadows. In…