James: Overall it felt like the mansion wasn’t dorky enough so I wrote this even MORE toned down version of it for when the lights go out. I’m pretty proud of how it turned out from a musical standpoint, though I guess it’s kind of serious given how goofy the house looks. Toby: This is one of the first tracks I did for the game. Toby ended up doing the final version of this one, though I think a piano version I did exists somewhere too. When we first came onto the project Andrew told us “it’s like a haunted house” so we really made it like… spooky but months down the line Andrew was like “ok lads reel it in it’s not actually haunted just lonely” so we switched it to piano and toned it down a bit. It used a lot of harpsichord originally, which we then thought we’d use a little more sparingly. James: This went through a bunch of revisions, too. Toby: I think my original version of this was like 40 seconds long or something… James did a really good job fleshing it out and making it something that’s listenable for long enough to look at the Bubsy poster 40 times in a row.
Joey feels most at home in her bedroom, which is a sanctuary from the rest of the awful house she lives in. One of the design choices Toby and I settled on really early on was that each character would have a “room” that be the purest form of their theme. James: When Toby sent me the original piano sketch for Joey’s theme it was real good but I thought since Joey dances, what if I made it sound like a dance recital? I used to take dance classes when I was a kid, and I have very distinct memories of a kindly old woman playing bouncy piano chords in ¾ time. The original version of this sounds a lot more like “SINGULAR PERIL” without any drums and not sampled, so just like, straight 8ths.
It is one of the VERY first things written for the game. Toby doesn’t like to use a lot of percussion, so I wrote this based on what was originally a piano piece. James: In its current form, I think this is one of the best examples on this soundtrack of what Toby and I’s respective styles sound like mixed together. It’s based around Joey and Jude’s theme, and has a few nods in there to some others if you’re listening. This latest version is meant to tie in with the title screen music. It’s so much better now than it used to be. James: This is the track that has been rewritten the most. Wait…did I say all this once before already? No. We’ve got the first half of the discussion today, with the next half going up next Wednesday. But more interestingly, it’s James and Toby, giving some commentary on the first half of the HIVESWAP: Act 1 soundtrack, available now on Bandcamp or bundled with HIVESWAP: Act 1 on Steam and Humble.
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