I was waiting until everything was 100% complete before sharing this information with you. Yes, the Claustrophobia 1643 has now officially wrapped for me. The soundtrack complete, not only as a downloadable MP3 but also as an app version, thanks to Syrinscape.

​What does that mean? Well let me explain in this video…

​​So now I am done with music, I will go back to doing board game reviews and board game videos. Just until the next soundscape comes along…

As some of you may or may not know, I like music.
I add it into my videos...
I listen to it while playing games...
And it helps me sleep (but keeps my wife up)
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​And it is this love of music and passion that helped me grab the chance to produce more music, this time directly asked to by a board game designer.
Bruno Sauter, the man behind the very successful Kickstarter "The 7th Continent" was on the look out for someone to create a soundtrack for his game. It was an added stretch goal to the project and something he personally wanted in the game.
A musician was hired to work on the project but after many months, had to leave. So the hunt was on to find a replacement. Kickstarters run on a ticking time-bomb, timescale. The project needs to be delivered to the backers on a specific time.

I had had the chance to play a prototype of the game and create a video, demonstrating how the game plays, so I had a little interaction with Bruno. I chatted with him at several festivals and conventions, inquiring how the production was going. At one of these event, he informed me of the loss of his composer. I interrupted him, saying that I knew of several people that could create a soundtrack...myself included. He said he will look into the names I had given.

So between the months of December 2016 and March 2017, I set to work creating soundscapes for the 10 area involved in the game. I expanded the requested time duration of each track from 5 minutes to 10-15 minutes, because I knew these tracks would be played on a loop. And I knew from experience (Bruno too), how annoying a small track, on a loop, can get irksome. Ideally, I would have preferred a 30 minute track for each zone, but due to that ticking time-bomb deadline, I made them as long as I could.
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And now that the project is finished, I look back in contentment at the amount of work I produced, in the short amout of time. And I dream of the day when someone drops me a message, with the challenge..."Would you like to composes a soundtrack?"