

in the game itself).īut of course, after finishing the game, I took to YouTube and started going through all my favorite tracks again, as well as others that had slipped by my attention. (Of course, if a player decided to stop progressing at that point, the music would continue and eventually repeat, but it’s all designed in a way that a situation like that would be unlikely.)īut that idea stuck with me, and after the talk I finally got to finish playing Breath of the Wild…Īs a general rule, I don’t like to listen through a game’s soundtrack until after I’ve finished the game (the idea being that I want my first experience with each track to be in its intended context, i.e. As a result, this track is not really meant to be looped-it’s meant to be heard from start to finish, and there’s a progression and climax to the music that traditional game music often eschews because of the Loop constraint. The one example I could conjure up was the track that plays in New Home from Undertale-which is a 6-minute long track, easily longer than any other track in the game-clearly designed to play through its entirety, as it gradually builds up, mirroring the player’s progression through that section of the game. In the meantime, check out the two supplemental Longest Night games below.At the time, I couldn’t really think of a good example of how a game could do that. After a successful Kickstarter it's being made by Infinite Fall, a teamup of Alec Holowka (Aquaria), Scott Benson (Late Night Work Club), and Bethany Hockenberry.Ĭoming in 2017 to PC/Mac/Linux and PS4. NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.


In 2017 join Mae on a trip through her hometown and into the dark on the other side. Strange things are happening as the light fades. Leaves are falling and the wind is growing colder.

Home seems different now and her friends have grown and changed. College dropout Mae Borowski returns home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs seeking to resume her aimless former life and reconnect with the friends she left behind.
