Game info: Steam
Listening: extracted audio
Credits
Audio by Brent Houston
Info
Here’s an extremely short expanded version of an extremely short Metroidvania that was originally made for a game jam in 2022. I happened to play (streamed, even) the original version semi-randomly a few months ago, and then a couple of weeks ago I was browsing new releases on Steam and I saw this! How dare they update a game I already played. The fiends.
The original game was written for the PICO-8 fake game console and featured just one piece of music by chiptune artist Brent Houston (a.k.a. Vav); DX adds a short main menu theme and two additional in-game pieces that swap in as you progress. While the new version doesn’t have any of the technical restrictions that the original version did, the additional tracks are also all chiptune, though I’m not positive if they were also all written in the PICO-8 music tracker or not; the bass is thicker in all of the new tracks so I suspect they weren’t, but they’re all close enough in sound that they’re not jarringly different.
The music reminded me in tone a little bit of the soundtrack to ElecHead in its mixture of drivingness and loneliness, and also compositionally a little bit in its arrangements and having some occasionally nice chord changes. It’s not a bad little soundtrack, nothing too fancy but it gets the job done.
There’s no soundtrack release for this game, but because it’s written in LÖVE, you can just download the game for free, rename its .love data file to .zip, then extract it to get at the audio files.
Recommended track:
- “Music 2” had the most chord changes I like total
(track title is based on the filename)
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