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Anew: The Distant Light to be scored by Wilbert Roget II

July 5, 2016 | Ryan Paquet | Comments Off on Anew: The Distant Light to be scored by Wilbert Roget II Share this

Anew: The Distant Light is an upcoming indie game for PC and various consoles being developed by Resonator Games. Wilbert Roget II who was behind the wonderful anime inspired album Beyond Libra, will be composing the music.

We have the amazingly talented Wilbert Roget, II scoring the game (Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Dead Island 2, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Monkey Island Special Edition). Will is writing an amazing 20th century orchestral-inspired score for us, so if you are into Bela Bartok, John Adams, and Jerry Goldsmith – you’ll appreciate it. We recently won the Audience Choice Award at the Developer Showcase at Phoenix Comicon, and were also accepted into the Microsoft and Sony developer programs earlier in the year. The game is still in development and is planned for an initial launch on PC later next year.

Jeff Spoonhower
Art, Animation, Sound, and Narrative Lead

Resonator Games has also posted an incredible Pre-Alpha Gameplay trailer that to me looks like Earthworm Jim, Super Metroid, and Image Comic’s Black Science had a baby.

What do you think of this first excerpt of the soundtrack? Is Anew: The Distant Light a game you’re looking forward to next year?
Anime, Indie Music

Anime-Inspired Original Album Kickstarter Debuted by Lara Croft Composer

November 10, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Anime-Inspired Original Album Kickstarter Debuted by Lara Croft Composer Share this

A new crowdfunding campaign has been debuted by the composer of of Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Star Wars: The Old Republic and others. Wilbert Roget has taken to Kickstarter to help fund his original album, Beyond Libra, which is inspired by anime composers and features several cultural influences.

As a composer for games, I’ve always been influenced by classic Japanese anime and video game scores, with musicians like Yoko Kanno and Jo Hisaishi being some of my biggest inspirations. I’ve always wanted to write music for animation, and so 8 years ago, I embarked on an ambitious album project: I’d write an entire soundtrack for a show that existed only in my imagination, with commissioned artwork to accompany the music and an interplanetary adventure story to bind it all together.

Beyond Libra is a very diverse soundtrack, with songs ranging from j-pop to orchestral, dulcet small ensemble works, and uplifting afrobeat. There is no single “sound” for the album as a whole, but instead, a great variety of genres support the characters’ adventure across several planets and civilizations. – Wil Roget

The album will feature several additional musicians, including Jillian Aversa (Halo, Soul Calibur 5, VideoGamesLive), Offiong Bassey (featured on NPR Radio and The Boston Globe), Raj Ramayya (Cowboy Bebop, Wolf’s Rain) and others. It will also include the Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus and several other cultural ensembles. The current goal is $1,500 for the 45-minute album and some stretch goals to help improve mixing and increase tracks and more.

Beyond Libra – Kickstarter
Game Music

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris OST Free for Download

February 17, 2015 | Brenna Wilkes | 2 Comments Share this

Two months ago, Crystal Dynamics came out with a sequel to the download-only Tomb Raider spin-off game, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Still set within the Legends timeline and not the new rebooted story, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris finds heroine Lara on a quest to Egypt where she must fight rival treasure hunters, undead warrior and ancient gods. A familiar premise and just another Tuesday for Ms. Croft, honestly.

I first took a listen to this OST upon my trip to attend MAGFest 13. It’s a fantastic orchestrated album with much grandiose elements. Upon listening, my first impression was that the music style sounded like a more subtle, toned-down mixture of God of War and the soundtrack to the movie, The Mummy. That is a good thing, by the way. Composed by Wilbert Roget, II (Star Wars: The Old Republic, Dead Island 2), the music focuses on a lot of atypical middle eastern and Egyptian theatrical motifs, such as heavy string and flute flurries and double harmonic scales, but doesn’t go out of its way to dominate the tone of the game or upstage the gameplay.

“I’m very excited about this soundtrack as we got to work with some incredible classical and world-instrument soloists.”, states Roget on the soundtrack, which shows in the well-composed pieces. Though many pieces do seem to flow into one another at times, the “Finale” track might be my favored of the main game’s music, with its shades of John Williams peppered throughout.

The 36-track soundtrack, which includes two bonus remix tracks (The “Isis’ Lament” piece stands out to me), is currently free for download on Crystal Dynamic’s Soundcloud, and worth a listen for anyone who enjoys some good background ambiance. Who doesn’t enjoy free music?

Lara Croft & the Temple of Osiris OST – Soundcloud

Wilbert Roget, II – Website | Twitter