The sounds and music of Aeon of Sands The Trail
Have you ever wondered about what one needs to consider when it comes to video game music? Then let me tell you about our creational journey to the music of Aeon of Sands and check out this blog post. main theme sample: https://www.aeonofsands.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AoS_main_theme_snippet_mixdown_1.mp3
Back then when we started, Florian and me both knew we wanted a rich audio environment for Aeon of Sands, with three constituent parts: Game audio effects: GUI sounds as well as sounds triggered by players or their opponents Ambient track: the loopable constant sounds that create the background for the game experience Musical themes: the loopable melodic tunes that introduce the game, underscore encounters and take you out of the game and back to your room. Besides, we both wanted all the audio in the game to be very specific, convincing, direct, and most of all, musical. Given the particular narrative of the game, we also wanted its music to be not at all high fantasy or over-epic. In fact, the scope of the game story is not a fantasy of macho super-heroics stumping over the lives of a galaxy, or some stuff like that; its the story of a clerk, stumbling through things larger than him, and the story becomes broader only when hes forced to confront his humanity in face of his own survival. Plus, add a little bit of humor. game credits - sample: https://www.aeonofsands.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AoS_credits_snippet_mixdown.mp3
On the other end, we had a few examples in mind, something that came from our roots, like games we loved of the Commodore Amiga era: Perihelion, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, some pieces of Mass Effect for its coherence, and something even from the Commodore SID era as an inspiration. But we also wanted the bulk of it recorded live using analog tools and instruments, the same I (Marco) did for most of the audio effects.
Enter Gabriele Artuso, our musician friend, who has collaborated with us on Aeon of Sands for the last three years.
Gabriele added to the mix - besides his compositive experience - his taste for jazz improvisation and his exhilarating sense of experimentation. He did most of the real work, to which I added post-production and editing, contributing only a couple of tunes, just because his enthusiasm for this creation work touched me. gameplay ambient music: https://www.aeonofsands.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AoS_in_game_snippet_mixdown.mp3
The result of this fruitful confrontation is a set of almost forty tracks: tuneful ambient loops and direct groovy main tracks that echo back to John Carpenters Eighties. All of these tracks youll be able to listen to in the game! Additionally, we are in the process of distilling the games tracks into a soundtrack to be released further on the road. Stay tuned on radio Aeon of Sands :) And besides, if you have not yet done so, please add Aeon of Sands to your Steam wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/907820/Aeon_of_Sands__The_Trail/ marco from TwoBitsKid
[ 2018-11-30 13:27:08 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hello!
Have you ever wondered about what one needs to consider when it comes to video game music? Then let me tell you about our creational journey to the music of Aeon of Sands and check out this blog post. main theme sample: https://www.aeonofsands.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AoS_main_theme_snippet_mixdown_1.mp3
Considerations and First Ideas
Back then when we started, Florian and me both knew we wanted a rich audio environment for Aeon of Sands, with three constituent parts: Game audio effects: GUI sounds as well as sounds triggered by players or their opponents Ambient track: the loopable constant sounds that create the background for the game experience Musical themes: the loopable melodic tunes that introduce the game, underscore encounters and take you out of the game and back to your room. Besides, we both wanted all the audio in the game to be very specific, convincing, direct, and most of all, musical. Given the particular narrative of the game, we also wanted its music to be not at all high fantasy or over-epic. In fact, the scope of the game story is not a fantasy of macho super-heroics stumping over the lives of a galaxy, or some stuff like that; its the story of a clerk, stumbling through things larger than him, and the story becomes broader only when hes forced to confront his humanity in face of his own survival. Plus, add a little bit of humor. game credits - sample: https://www.aeonofsands.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AoS_credits_snippet_mixdown.mp3
Influences
On the other end, we had a few examples in mind, something that came from our roots, like games we loved of the Commodore Amiga era: Perihelion, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, some pieces of Mass Effect for its coherence, and something even from the Commodore SID era as an inspiration. But we also wanted the bulk of it recorded live using analog tools and instruments, the same I (Marco) did for most of the audio effects.
Fruitful Collaboration
Enter Gabriele Artuso, our musician friend, who has collaborated with us on Aeon of Sands for the last three years.
Gabriele added to the mix - besides his compositive experience - his taste for jazz improvisation and his exhilarating sense of experimentation. He did most of the real work, to which I added post-production and editing, contributing only a couple of tunes, just because his enthusiasm for this creation work touched me. gameplay ambient music: https://www.aeonofsands.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AoS_in_game_snippet_mixdown.mp3
The Result!: 40 Tracks and more
The result of this fruitful confrontation is a set of almost forty tracks: tuneful ambient loops and direct groovy main tracks that echo back to John Carpenters Eighties. All of these tracks youll be able to listen to in the game! Additionally, we are in the process of distilling the games tracks into a soundtrack to be released further on the road. Stay tuned on radio Aeon of Sands :) And besides, if you have not yet done so, please add Aeon of Sands to your Steam wishlist! https://store.steampowered.com/app/907820/Aeon_of_Sands__The_Trail/ marco from TwoBitsKid
[ 2018-11-30 13:27:08 CET ] [ Original post ]
Aeon of Sands - The Trail
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2018-12-04
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Aeon of Sands – The Trail is a roleplaying game set in a post-apocalyptic desert world. It combines real-time exploration gameplay with classic gamebooks where you create your very own non-linear story adventure.
You play the vain and clumsy Setrani, a simple clerk aspiring to a simple life. But in the post-apocalyptic world of Aeon of Sands, nothing is ever that easy... A single missing caravan will set plans in motion, and seal the fate of our unlikely hero.
What if your favorite “Choose your own Adventure” book was, instead of crumpled pages to turn and dice to throw, an epic FPP dungeon crawler?
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The Kinami giant tree, a rare and precious shelter in a sea of sand around which the story evolves, and on whose colossal trunk and branches a hardy people built a whole city, Pantella.
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Setrani is the main character of the story: vain and clumsy, he’s one of the young men and women who keep the Kinami tree in good health.
Setrani is a cross between a gardener and also a lowly factotum for the city government: he basically crowdfunds supplies to maintain all the tree caretakers.
A slacker and a nap taker, he’s the definition of whom you would not trust with your life.
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Where is the missing caravan?!
A caravan carrying supplies and legations to a distant sister city has disappeared from the trail.
Was it a trick of its intended recipients?
Was it a dreaded nomadic tribe raid?
Or something else entirely?
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Aeon of Sands’ adventuring is based on illustrated dialogues with multiple-choice: through them, the players are introduced to new situations.
Based on the actions or attitude that the players make Setrani take, new areas can be explored, while others become inaccessible, or they meet new companions or make enemies for life. But most of the time, it’s both!
The story has many different paths, locations to visit and three different endings.
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What about a rugged guard, with a checkered past and a big heart? Or a crazy aged lady looking for murderous adventures? And what about Herman, the dead sandcrawler’s body? Or a bored archaeologist slash tourist with a fetish for water faucets?
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City states sometime suffer the incursions of the men and women who live in nomadic tribes in the desert, always moving, always raiding other settlements, and usually in a state of constant war with each other.
Their tribes are usually composed of scavengers, who may be the only people in the whole world that understand a little of the technologies lost in time, as well as brute marauders and powerful warlocks, who bend the elements to their will.
But there might be more people, rogues and pariahs, settled in hidden havens, and if the desert teaches anything to Setrani, he must be wary of appearances.
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While Setrani might be afraid of strangers, there’s no shortage of critters to really freak him out, and possibly eat him. No matter how many companions as he brings with him: the more, the merrier.
From the common sandcrawler to giant centipedes and leeches, from creatures of the underground to creatures of the sky.
To whatever it is the one in the image above belongs to, and wherever it might come from.
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This is Bob, Bob is a fashion blogger. He wears a stylish headdress made of a carved pumpkin-like red animal skull or just pottery (the jury is still out), and a sprawling necklace of sandcrawler innards, with a touch of sweet aroma of decay, Charnel No 5.
Name: Bob
Occupation: Rogue working with basic 9 to 5 contract with his employer settlement, committing routinely roguish acts of random robbery on desert travelers, but he dreams of becoming a star fashion blogger.
Greatest Skill: Perfect duckface in pictures.
Greatest Drawback: Nobody ever saw his face, on account of it being stuck inside his headdress. Also: he has no internet.
You play the vain and clumsy Setrani, a simple clerk aspiring to a simple life. But in the post-apocalyptic world of Aeon of Sands, nothing is ever that easy... A single missing caravan will set plans in motion, and seal the fate of our unlikely hero.
What if your favorite “Choose your own Adventure” book was, instead of crumpled pages to turn and dice to throw, an epic FPP dungeon crawler?
FEATURES
- The world of Aeon of Sands may be lethal, but it is not humorless. Think “Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy” meets Interplay's Fallout!
- Emphasis on exploration: the deadly world of AoS is filled with secrets, switchs, loot and eccentric characters to meet... or to fight!
- Non-linearity: Follow the story at your own speed, or at your own will.
- Replayability: Do it differently all over, face multiple endings!
- Completely hand drawn 2.5D environment, 240 hand-drawn illustrations
- Auto-mapping, with a writing feature
- Real-time combat, with grid-based tactics
- Organic character's customization: forget xp and levels, stats are likened to the gear you choose and the skills you use.
The Setting
The Kinami giant tree, a rare and precious shelter in a sea of sand around which the story evolves, and on whose colossal trunk and branches a hardy people built a whole city, Pantella.
Exits The Hero!
Setrani is the main character of the story: vain and clumsy, he’s one of the young men and women who keep the Kinami tree in good health.
Setrani is a cross between a gardener and also a lowly factotum for the city government: he basically crowdfunds supplies to maintain all the tree caretakers.
A slacker and a nap taker, he’s the definition of whom you would not trust with your life.
The BIG HOT Problem!
Where is the missing caravan?!
A caravan carrying supplies and legations to a distant sister city has disappeared from the trail.
Was it a trick of its intended recipients?
Was it a dreaded nomadic tribe raid?
Or something else entirely?
Choose Your Adventure!
Aeon of Sands’ adventuring is based on illustrated dialogues with multiple-choice: through them, the players are introduced to new situations.
Based on the actions or attitude that the players make Setrani take, new areas can be explored, while others become inaccessible, or they meet new companions or make enemies for life. But most of the time, it’s both!
The story has many different paths, locations to visit and three different endings.
Friend Or Foe?
What about a rugged guard, with a checkered past and a big heart? Or a crazy aged lady looking for murderous adventures? And what about Herman, the dead sandcrawler’s body? Or a bored archaeologist slash tourist with a fetish for water faucets?
Them Who Roam The Desert!
City states sometime suffer the incursions of the men and women who live in nomadic tribes in the desert, always moving, always raiding other settlements, and usually in a state of constant war with each other.
Their tribes are usually composed of scavengers, who may be the only people in the whole world that understand a little of the technologies lost in time, as well as brute marauders and powerful warlocks, who bend the elements to their will.
But there might be more people, rogues and pariahs, settled in hidden havens, and if the desert teaches anything to Setrani, he must be wary of appearances.
And, You Know, Creatures!
While Setrani might be afraid of strangers, there’s no shortage of critters to really freak him out, and possibly eat him. No matter how many companions as he brings with him: the more, the merrier.
From the common sandcrawler to giant centipedes and leeches, from creatures of the underground to creatures of the sky.
To whatever it is the one in the image above belongs to, and wherever it might come from.
Meet Interesting People (In Combat)!
This is Bob, Bob is a fashion blogger. He wears a stylish headdress made of a carved pumpkin-like red animal skull or just pottery (the jury is still out), and a sprawling necklace of sandcrawler innards, with a touch of sweet aroma of decay, Charnel No 5.
Name: Bob
Occupation: Rogue working with basic 9 to 5 contract with his employer settlement, committing routinely roguish acts of random robbery on desert travelers, but he dreams of becoming a star fashion blogger.
Greatest Skill: Perfect duckface in pictures.
Greatest Drawback: Nobody ever saw his face, on account of it being stuck inside his headdress. Also: he has no internet.
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS/SteamOS 64bit
- Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 or betterMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphic card supporting OpenGL 2.1+/GLSL 1.40+. 1 GB
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS/SteamOS 64bit
- Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 or betterMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphic card supporting OpenGL 2.1+/GLSL 1.40+. 1 GB
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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