{"id":324,"date":"2017-10-05T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:06:38","slug":"thematic-thursday-darren-korb-supergiant-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/thematic-thursday-darren-korb-supergiant-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Thematic Thursdays: Darren Korb \/ Supergiant Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Welcome back to Thematic Thursdays, where I share a soundtrack or two out of my collection that’s good for either mood writing or as background while you work!<\/p>\n

Today’s it’s Darren Korb, the composer for Supergiant Games<\/a>, in particular Bastion<\/em> and Transistor<\/em>. They’re more like cinematic soundtracks than what you’d typically find in an RPG, and more upbeat than last week’s Myst + Riven<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The games themselves have very lush graphics and interesting dynamics–I’ve played both and enjoyed them–but it’s the soundtracks that really stayed with me. Bastion, in particular, has a great steampunk vibe–like cowboys with laser guns–lots of layers and a great beat that makes it perfect to write scenes that need a certain amount of swagger to them. (I wrote one post-apocolyptic gunslinger short listening to nothing else and enjoyed the hell out of the experience).<\/p>\n[bandcamp width=400 height=120 album=503501171 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=2ebd35 tracklist=false artwork=small]\n

(Here it is as a single YouTube video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

If Bastion is steampunk, then Transistor is cyberpunk. It’s got a grungy electronica crossed with a jazz nightclub vibe. There’s more sung pieces–which I find less useful to write to–but there’s also an ‘extended soundtrack’ where the lyrics are replaced with humming and remixes of the original soundtrack.<\/p>\n[bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=2382383956 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=2ebd35 tracklist=false artwork=small]\n

(For some reason the bandcamp playlist auto-starts at the end<\/em> of the soundtrack and I much prefer the beginning. Here it is as a single YouTube video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

There’s a new game as well, Pyre, but I haven’t played it or listened to the soundtrack yet; now that I know it exists I’ll give it a go and probably update this post with my thoughts on it afterwards. Let me know what you think in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A review of the composer for Supergiant Games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[23,24,15,12,22],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-thematic-thursday","tag-complex","tag-electronica","tag-focus","tag-soundtrack","tag-upbeat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}