Cosmic friends!

Hello Cosmic Friends This is CAPY, back from our chilling yet exciting trip at Grindstone Mountain. It was quite different from our time in the Depths, but that was also incredible to uncover. Though we are making progress towards a new, fantastical place, we thought it would be pleasant to revisit Mingi Taw. We have a refreshing update for Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP! This affects a variety of platforms, such as: iOS, Mac, Linux, and PC. Its definitely worth a thorough examination in the form of playing through it again! Oh! We do have an exhilarating addition to our list of playable platforms: the Steam Deck! Travelling is a fulfilling experience, but we imagine that travelling with Sworcery could be ethereal Enjoy its mythical musical mystery, all in your hands! We also want to highlight our update for MacOS this is the first time it can run on the latest versions! We are incredibly thankful for the patience our CosMAC Friends have for us. Lastly, you might notice that your journey around Mingi Taw is more untroubled. Weve done some housekeeping so it can be smooth sailing ahead or dream-walking ahead, whatever feels comfortable. If we missed something in our cleanup, let us know! Those pesky corners can be hard to reach. Thank you for sticking with us all these years (12 to be exact!); our otherworldly connection can truly be felt from anywhere we go. Cosmic Friends forever And yes, we extend that invite to you new folks as well. Welcome! Wonderfully and joyfully yours, CAPY P.S. One of our incredible Sworcery devs has put out the patch notes in detail here; please give them the warmest appreciation and praise!

There's something to be said for 2D pixel paintings, isn't there? You put a pixel in its proper place, dial in its proper HSB, and so long as your color palettes are in reasonable order, then the pixel will stay just how you left it. Then, when someone views the image -- or plays the videogame that takes place atop it -- the visual communication can be remarkably accurate and clean. Less to fuss about.
As you may imagine, there's something appealing to me about the thought of someday returning to the relative simplicity of this form of visual communication, working within interesting constraints, particularly after a good long while spent wrangling polygons in deep 3D space. Speaking of polygons in deep 3D space - JETT's out! There has been plenty going on lately as we round out JETT: Given Time's launch week. Come dive into what's going on in JETTs-ville:

• JETT's out and we're feeling great! Why not pick up a controller, fire up JETT on your fanciest screen with your most comfortable headphones, arise into Given time and come spark some wisps with us - it's a JETT jubilee!
• We're accumulating player reviews (thank you, fine folks!) and other good words. Of course, the algorithm must be fed, so: if *you* feel so compelled, leaving JETT a quick review would be warmly appreciated, particularly in these next few weeks.
• If you haven't already, why not check out our latest JETT news post, with a post launch news round-up of Given Time reviews and press, a detour into Looking Glass lore, updates on our Thursday evening livestreams, AND a hefty JETT dev chat on this week's Noclip podcast.

Folks, listen: the videogame biz is a weird place. I can tell you, at least from my strange and specific vantage point as a creator and an entrepreneur, that it seems to be bananas. Sometimes, in good ways. Sometimes something intricate and strange like JETT is able to ride favourable industry currents, reach for the stars, and actually get there. Sometimes you end up with a line-up of interesting people, wishlists in hand, queuing up for what's on offer. More on that in a second, but first lemme get your eyes and ears on today's big item: This is a great great day. and we're *thrilled* to have delivered on JETT's videogame vision satisfyingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3lfq60RO90 Today's the day! Arise with us?

• JETT's Steam debut + New 'Given Time' campaign is now available
• Oh and as of now, JETT's on sale: 40% off on Steam.
• Did I mention JETT is pretty great on Steam Deck? Well, yep - it is!

Hello hi there. How're things? Craig D Adams here, from the ol' Superbrothers A/V mothership, creative director on JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time, a videogame co-created by Pine Scented with music composed by scntfc. I've got some significant top-level JETT news for you today!

• JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time launches on Steam on January 31 2023

JETT: GIVEN TIME MINI-FAQ

• How No Man's Sky and Firewatch relate to JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time

• Superbrothers: from #sworcery to JETT - a catch-up post

Imagine: it's 2013, you're a small team, you've previously made a small but well-regarded game, something like Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP just to choose a random example, and now you're swinging for the bleachers with an ambitious new design. You and a pal have been cooking up a science fiction videogame where you explore a planet and survive from two perspectives: you can walk around and talk to people, then you get in a jett and you can zip around the planet's surface, gathering things and figuring things out in an interesting wilderness built with procedurally-placed ecosystem tools. Now, imagine you tune into a 'The Game Awards' type broadcast (the last of the VGAs?) in late 2013, and you see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgWabJssVI Whatever you may think about No Man's Sky, there's no getting around the fact that from that first trailer, it has drawn a high level of attention. So, back to imagining you and your small team and your 'walk around a bit and then get in a jett and zip around a mostly procgen game-world gathering and crafting things' videogame. Well, now might be time for a little reflection, to tease apart how your vision aligns, and where it contrasts, with the new 800-pound gorilla in this genre.
We kept on with our vision for JETT through 2014 and into 2015, with all its Monster Hunter and Metroid Prime -inspired nuances and wrinkles, getting to know what we could and couldn't do with procedurality. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/6926004339899510462
We were working through designs that involved gathering and crafting, and figuring out what kinds of scenarios could hold people's attention, while we kept the focus on the science-discovery angle and attempted to side-step the usual extract-gather mechanics.
We had our Destiny-inspired menu system up and running, and when we saw that's what Hello Games was up to with No Man's Sky we felt ah well, yep, that makes sense.
In the wake of No Man's Sky emergence, attention was drawn to the enigmatic singularity of procedural generation through 2014 and 2016, the whizbang of it and the endless possibilities and such, and I found myself remembering playing and enjoying Frontier: Elite II back in the day, a miracle-work in hyper-ambitious interstellar procgen that ably demonstrated to me both the allure and some of the limits of this approach. Once the whizbang of procgen wears off, you've got to actually play the videogame: to get a grip on the controls and comprehend its systems and find them interesting or meaningful, and find a groove in its rhythms and patterns. In any case, at length I had to admit that Frontier: Elite II was just not my cup of tea. Still, Frontier: Elite II is absolutely worth a look-see, if you're unfamiliar!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJdz7x9hpUA My most vivid positive memory of playing Frontier involved parking at a base on a moon in orbit around a gas giant, then ratcheting up the flow of time x10 and watching a cosmic ballet unfold before my eyes, with the moon I was parked on wheeling around the gas giant, day turning to night, the stars in the heavens whirling, every start representing a potential destination, and with the other moons and planets in the surrounding solar system visible in the distance, moving in their orbits. Magnificent! (FWIW: My least positive memories of playing Frontier tended to involve me setting a destination, setting a course, switching on my autopilot, ratcheting up the flow of time and kicking back.... and then suddenly colliding with an unseen planet or somesuch. Alas, haha.)
With my Frontier: Elite II experience in mind, and my 'proc-gen is an endless miracle' expectations securely in check, I'll admit that I found a great deal to appreciate in the vibe, style and craft of No Man's Sky when it shipped in 2016. Those colors! That music! The pizzazz! It's a pretty magnificent thing, no doubt. Still, as anticipated, I struggled to find my footing in the actual videogame experience.
For one thing, I learned that as player, I tend to prefer experiences that are more curated and feel contained and completable, even if they feel vast at times. Or, put another way, from a designer's point of view, I identified that my player type, whatever type that is, needs an immediately engaging on-ramp -- hook me!! -- and then I need some meaningful-to-me structure to motivate my continued engagement, and ideally at some point I could use some characters to start to relate to and begin to care a bit about. These reflections helped me recalibrate my feelings about what JETT could and should be.
Something else I spent a lot of time considering relates to the underlying narrative/mechanics in science fiction / space fantasy exploration games. As a teen I was so blown away that Frontier: Elite II contained a universe at just ~500K, and I recall having no particular qualms with how vacant and colonial everything was. The narrative premise seemed in-line with 50s and 60s science fiction, the kind probably written by European white men, authors like Clarke and Asimov that I had been reading at that time. In the 90s, the deeper scrutiny of 'explore/conquer/extract' fantasies hadn't reached many teenager's bedrooms, or at least it wasn't particularly itchy to me at the time. However, as an adult in the 21st century, a witness to the impacts of our civilization and its values, I've found that I struggle to resonate with stories and designs that replicate and dress up those capitalist/colonial concepts. I get that there's a reason our species enjoys these types of activities, and that these designs are reliable in videogames; but for me, I can't help but ruminate regretfully that this is the case. As we carved out JETT's cosmology, we talked about how it might stand as an interesting work of science fiction, something that could soar with spectacle and escapist thrills, hit notes of awe and dread, and carry within it a story that involves characters who represent the best of us, within a reasonably enlightened and thoughtful culture, struggling to tread lightly while they see to their survival. Science fiction can be a pretty fantastic lens through which to view complex interrelated science and nature concepts afresh, particularly concepts that involve processes that function on timescales other than the human lifespan, and it can be fascinating to contemplate our species and our lives from other vantage points. So, it's hard for me to not to get a bit bummed out when the role I'm offered in an expansive science fiction videogame is limited to being a cog within a society engaged in thoughtless conquest and the relentless extraction of materials from pristine new worlds.

FROM PROCGEN TO STORYTOWN
In any case, as we continued to explore JETT's design space we had plenty of other avenues to consider, and we began to shift and narrow our focus. At some point in 2015 or 2016 we ended up jettisoning crafting entirely, and pretty drastically limiting the gathering, in part to avoid having to accommodate things that felt extractive, in part so as not to have to bend our fiction too much. (Another upside: less UI work for the two of us to get bogged down with, haha.) We made sure to re-center ourselves on JETT's core vision -- the feel of snowboarding, the various Metroid and Monster Hunter ideas, the vibe and tone and our philosophical approach -- but we started talking more about how to strengthen the narrative elements, and how to get those elements to more reliably surprise, intrigue and resonate. JUST ADD "JUST WALKING"
walking around Ground Control's habitation room, circa 2016 I was growing fond of the world and the characters we had been carving out in JETT, and I could see a lot of potential, but by 2015 we just hadn't spent much time building these elements out. I began to see a path forwards that would involve putting more attention to the narrative and on-foot spaces.
At this time we were looking towards Blendo Game's 30 Flights of Loving (2012), which we had as our reference point for narrative-first DIY first person, with its smash cuts and clever lo-fi staging. We looked over at the interest in first person narrative experiences, with the A/V focused Proteus and the more literary Dear Esther coming up in early conversations, then Gone Home, and then Campo Santo's Firewatch, announced in 2014 and released in 2016. We asked ourselves: if we aspired to a high level of care for a few of JETT's on-foot spaces and sequences, in what ways could that deepen the overall experience? I loved everything about Campo Santo, from its Campo Santo Quarterly to all the all-stars at that studio to their lovely debut Firewatch, [strike]and of course I'm psyched about their upcoming effort Valley Of the Gods.[/strike] In any case, I thought Firewatch was a treat to play, nice and finite with some good momentum throughout. (Fun little Firewatch x JETT crossover: In 2017 we had Firewatch design person (among many other things) Nels Anderson step in for some JETT design consultation).
One thing the Campo folks wisely did was avoid encountering living characters up close in game, similar to Gone Home. This avoids a lot of complexity. I seem to recall there being a fair bit of talk about 'forensic storytelling' around this time. However, for JETT I thought: damn it, let's commit to encountering characters who are living their adventure alongside us. Sure, it's a type of madness for a tiny two-person team to aspire to tackle all that, but we had a 'maybe we can figure this out' spirit.
My bet was that we'd find our way to a good enough level of animation and emoting, but stylized enough to be feasible. I figured we could problem solve the scope and production processes. We had a plan of attack on how to avoid the kind of complexity that would come with English voice-over, by relying on written dialogue primarily and working out our own distinct VO path.
It took a fair bit of honest effort from a lot of folks on a lot of sides to deliver on JETT's on-foot narrative ambitions, but I'll admit that I love where we landed things. I feel JETT: The Far Shore is a distinct and interesting work of science fiction, and I like that some of the characters and their concerns come through, as they overcome obstacles and stumble reverently forward. I'm psyched about what's in store for people in the JETT: Given Time campaign, with its distinct premise and approach to narrative, as it progresses, deepens, reveals and concludes things.
EVERY ATOM [strike]PROCEDURAL[/strike] PAIN-STAKINGLY HAND-CRAFTED
In any case, the path we set out on from ~2016 to 2021/2023 was one where we kept the things that felt would make the best and most distinct JETT, and this involved some streamlining of doodads and fussiness, while keeping the action, expansiveness and imagination, while we made efforts to raise the bar for our first person spaces, pulling in people to help, and putting some pressure on our collective storytelling chops. We figured this unorthodox synthesis of design elements might have a decent shot at carving out a genre-space all its own, something that could be familiar enough for people to hook onto, while being distinct and interesting enough to linger in their minds. So, if you were drawn to No Man's Sky but you wish there was some meaningful narrative concepts and thoughtful mechanics to get a grip on, or if you loved Firewatch but you were left itching for an opportunity to dig deeper into some ecosystem-puzzle-gameplay, well then may I say that I fondly hope you'll find some of what you're after in JETT. If you haven't already taken it for a spin, I'll mention the JETT demo is up now. JETT in its entirety is launching on Steam real soon.



OVER AND OUT, FOR NOW If you read all the way to here then... wow! Hope you enjoyed this, and thanks as always for your attention. If you'd like to read up on how sworcery led to JETT, and how JETT's interstellar demo came about, you might enjoy the following post. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600?emclan=103582791472437081&emgid=3625990351998747746 If you're curious to read about JETT's deisgn inspirations, among them Metroid Prime, Monster Hunter and the videogames of Fumito Ueda, here's a longread about that. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/6926004339899510462 As ever, to get in the loop with Superbrothers and all things #sworcery, please like and subscribe and so forth. Wishlist JETT on Steam and Download Demo - it helps!

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sworcery symbology, yuletide edition by Cory Schmitz STUMBLING REVERENTLY INTO 2023 Hey, Craig from Superbrothers here. As 2022 winds down I sincerely hope that wherever you are, youre getting through things okay, whatever the odds and the obstacles, and that youve got it in you to be who you want to be, and be good to each other, as we all stumble reverently forward into another year living together on this troubled, miraculous planet. So, listen: I've prepared a hefty post for you to enjoy over the winter holidays. it's about how I moved from #sworcery's pixels to JETT's polygons, and why JETT took the shape it did, with mentions of Metroid, Metroid Prime and Fumito Ueda, among others. I hope you enjoy it, if you take the time to traverse it. This one's a long read, a big ol' yule log of a post. If you're interested in the process of creating videogames, and the specific and maybe-unusual Superbrothers A/V approach, then perhaps you'll consider returning to this post at some point over the winter holidays in a an idle moment, with a mug of warm cocoa in hand.
#sworcery fan art from the AV jam FROM PIXELS TO POLYGONS First off, a question: d'you happen to remember the #sworcery AV Jam, that eruption of fan-made sworcery-inspired art that we collected on tumblr back in April 2012? There are some legit gems in that mix: https://sworcery-vibes.tumblr.com/ There's an image that dates back to this time that I wanted to mention. It's a painting I had made for a Moon Grotto music release, depicting The Scythian's < spoiler alert > [strike]funeral pyre. [/strike]
When I painted the pixels for this scene in #sworcery, I'll admit I got a bit choked up. It was strangely moving to be laying The Scythian down to rest so soon after getting to know her. Then, a year later, I revisited the scene with a tablet in Photoshop. This time time I was taking my leave of sworcery's pixel style, and I was contemplating how to go about mounting a videogame production involving 3D characters and locations. This was a daunting prospect, given the depth of my experience at the time, and given the tiny-team-size constraint I thought it prudent to work within.
Early on after my move from Toronto to the woods of Quebec, starting in 2013, I set to work sketching and building up the foundation and conceptual scaffolding for a dream project called 'the future'. I was reading up on science fiction (revisiting Dune, Clarke's The Deep Sea, Asimov's Foundation, LeGuin's Vaster Than Empires...) as well as relevant science and space race history books. Meanwhile, my old pal and JETT's co-creator Patrick at Pine Scented in Japan was in touch, getting his life to a place where he was ready to commit to build something together with me.
Common sense suggests that one shouldn't attempt to go from 'scope-limited 2D mobile game' (sworcery) to 'vast 3D PS5 videogame with unorthodox immersive sim elements and characters emoting and speaking' (JETT). Both Patrick and I knew we would have to learn a whole lot to actually deliver on the kind of maximalist vision we were cooking up with JETT, and we knew it would take a great deal of time and effort, and you know what, we were right, haha. All's well that ends well, as they say, and now, ten years later, we're on the home stretch JETT-wise with Given Time, the upcoming free expansion to JETT that'll be 'alighting' early in 2023 alongside the Steam release. It feels great to be rounding this corner. Given all that, now feels a good time to broadcast some thoughts about JETT's gameplay design and what inspired it, including mentions of Metroid Prime, Monster Hunter and the videogames of Fumito Ueda. Before we dig in, I should ask: if you haven't already, and if you like this kind of thing, then please do go wishlist JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time. Take the demo for a spin, and stay tuned for more: the Steam launch and the free expansion are

JETT'S DESIGN INSPIRATIONS

THE INFLUENCE OF METROID PRIME, MONSTER HUNTER AND FUMITO UEDA

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Hey hi hello there. How're you? Craig from Superbrothers A/V here, ie. that bozo what co-created both #sworcery and JETT. A few weeks ago I popped up with a post to tell you about where #sworcery and JETT overlap. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/204060/view/3433458944730393702 Today I'm here to tell you a bit about: how #sworcery led to JETT, how JETT's memorable interstellar demo came about (incl some of my 2013-era character previz), and how my IRL experience as a new parent influenced aspects of its tone. Before I dig in on those topics, I'd like to lay out a little fall 2022 snapshot to catch you up on what my fellow #sworcery co-creators are up to!
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COSMIC FRIENDS FOREVER For Capy, that beloved Toronto videogame studio that caused #sworcery to happen, here are a coupla notes:

• #sworcery's co-lead designer Kris Piotrowski headed up the audiovisually immaculate roguelike videogame Below, available here on Steam and on Switch, featuring an outstanding score by Jim Guthrie.
• Capy's latest videogame is the puzzler Grindstone, which lit up Apple Arcade in 2019 with rave reviews, and is now here on Steam and on Switch, featuring a heckuva score by Sam Webster.

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Oh hiI didnt see you there. I was just putting the finishing touches on JETT: The Far Shores new campaign expansion, "Given Time," due early 2023. Who am I, you ask?
I'm Craig D. Adams, the bozo who founded Superbrothers A/V way back in 2003. I'm also the co-creator of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (2011/2012), as well as the co-creator of JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time (2021/2023). In my job as creative director at Superbrothers A/V, [strike]an ongoing videogames conspiracy[/strike] a totally normal company that creates videogames, I've been laser-focused on breathing life into the preposterously grandiose JETT, pretty much ever since the golden old sworcery days of yesteryear. To give you an idea on how far back JETT goes, here's a #jettdev fun fact:

• The JETT prototype was born at the Toronto Game Jam in May 2011, about five weeks after sworcery's initial launch.
• Fun fact: Capy's Super T.I.M.E. Force was born at the same game jam, just the next table over from the Superbrothers (me) and Pine Scented (my old pal Patrick).

• an experience with style, soul and heart
  • because I was on deck on both projects defining narrative, characters, tone, music cues and art direction, as well as co-creating design, you'll find a lot of resonance between the two projects -- they're cut from the same cloth
  • just like in sworcery, in JETT you'll find yourself moving through a lush world in a vibes-heavy adventure, where great music is often front and center
  • in terms of pacing, as you play, occasionally a threat'll pop up and you'll have some action to take care of, and often you'll encounter scenarios that involve a bit of puzzling
  • alongside the bombast, spectacle and puzzling, there are a plenty of quiet intimate moments, as well as a few strange dreams... and even a familiar-feeling nightmare apparition haunting dark corners
• story-wise, some echoes
  • there are some rich themes that are going to resonate with some of you out there
  • gently radical
  • a silent woman with a spooky destiny finds herself on a cosmic adventure and eventually goes up a weird mountain, [strike]then, much later on, she goes up the mountain again and di--[/strike]
• coupla composers in common
  • composer scntfc created the moon grotto music in sworcery, which is a neat cameo in a great Jim Guthrie score
  • composer Jim Guthrie created the interstellar trip song Out Of Our Hands for JETT, a neat cameo in a great scntfc score
• also, a bit of intentional sfx overlap
  • you might notice the 'adventure lead-in' sound is used in both
  • sworcery's 'trigons' make something of an appearance inside JETT's 'phosfiends'
  • sworcery's 'sylvan sprites' aka space babies and JETT's 'brine wisp' sounds are the same - why, you might ask?

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Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP is Now Available on Steam and 25% off until Monday, April 23rd 10AM PST.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an exploratory action adventure with an emphasis on audiovisual style. Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries. Co-operate with friends via Twitter, experience a videogame world that is affected by moon phases & help a wandering warrior monk complete her woeful errand.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an exploratory action adventure with an emphasis on audiovisual style. Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries. Co-operate with friends via Twitter, experience a videogame world that is affected by moon phases & help a wandering warrior monk complete her woeful errand.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP features an album's worth of original music by noted composer Jim Guthrie as well as artwork & designs by Superbrothers Inc, crafted & engineered by videogame wizards at Capy in Toronto, Canada.

Songs will be placed in your Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP Folder in the Steam Directory:

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Key Features:

• Guide a warrior monk on a laid back adventure in a bronze age mountain wilderness, overcome occasionally hard-hitting battes & solve mystical musical puzzles to help The Scythian complete her woeful errand.
• A fevered famicom dream. Explore a lavishly-painted mythopoetic storyworld affected by real-world moon phases, conceived & crafted by a representative at Superbrothers Inc.
• A prog rock concept record you can hang out in. Treat your ears to an album's worth of original music created by the legendary composer Jim Guthrie.
• Remastered & ready for public exhibition. The new edition features razor-sharp pixels and a refined audio mix, ideal for projecting in a home theatre or cinema context.
• Point & click. This new edition of S:S&S EP for the electric computer has been faithfully re-engineered by videogame wizards at Capy to support input via the two-button mouse.
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Soundtrack Details:

Jim Guthrie's legendarily epic Sword & Sworcery LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies is a landmark prog rock concept album from the noted composer. Jim's compositions were named "The Best Videogame Music of 2011" by Kotaku, while Double Fine's Tim Schafer said "The music is amazing. I want Jim Guthrie to score my life."

Track List:

• Dark Flute 02:40
• Lone Star 02:35
• Doom Sock 02:35
• The Prettiest Weed 02:19
• The Cloud 03:50
• Under A Tree 05:03
• The Maelstrom 01:56
• The Ballad Of The Space Babies 03:06
• Unknowable Geometry 04:02
• Bones McCoy 02:06
• Ode To A Room 01:43
• The Prettiest Remix 00:56
• The Whirling Infinite 02:30
• Little Furnace 03:25
• Bonus Track Intro 00:01
• Cabin Music (Bonus Track) 02:39
• Battles 1(Bonus Track) 00:48
• Battles 2 (Bonus Track) 00:35
• Com64 (Bonus Track) 01:21
• Mushrooms (Bonus Track) 02:15
• Death To Everyone (Bonus Track) 01:13
• Confronting The Wolf (Bonus Track) 01:20
• Up A Mountain (Bonus Track) 01:28
• Activating Trigons (Bonus Track) 01:23
• How We Get Old (Bonus Track) 05:21
• And We Got Older 04:47
• Bonus Track Outro 00:02

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• Memory: 4GB RAMHard Disk Space: 500 MB FreeVideo Card: 256mb of video ram