This is my favourite song in the game, I just love the pure blue "morning fades" version but it's so cool to see all the variations ! I would love to see something similar for the other songs as well
I cannot explain it properly but somehow first red verse feels like the proper start of this song to me even through I love green and blue chorus better. I'm strange man when it comes to sound and instrumentals. My mother is in love with the first pre chorus btw she just loves this "I don't follow" she doesn't even know english and she just said I love the confusion the girl expresses.
This. This is the reason why I plunked down the money immediately. I want my money to support these projects!! The mixes were so good 🎉 I have such a hard time with this song not starting down the blue path. That clarinet is so delicious. Combined with Pan's soul vocals, it just has a vibe that makes my whole body resonate. It was such an amazing sound. I hope you get to do more like this! I hope it starts a genre! Thanks for all the music in an amazing game!
Please do this with "challenging a queen", the mixing of the themes is really good there! (I really like the mix of "a thousend times before" from green, the crowd singing from blue, and the rap over it for red)
When the analysis of a single song is 48 minutes, you know you're in for a treat. As a side note, it's awesome hearing these tracks without vocals so we can really appreciate the instrumentals, I absolutely adore how much you have panning back and forth binaurally here. The bit at 24:06 was especially awesome to me. And with the vocals, I had never noticed just HOW dry pop vocals are mixed, it's fascinating hearing that without the instrumentation. Also, I've said it a million times but it is insanely impressive how much effort and detail went into this music. I love the way the different instruments represent the different paths and motifs, and the way you mix and match instruments for the different paths and endings is nothing short of amazing. Thanks for sharing more with us Austin, I can't wait to see what comes next!
This. Listening to someone go through the branching paths on this song earlier this year is what made me get the game. I absolutely love the Breakdown you did here! I never noticed just how much the instruments mash-up when you go between colors. I would love to listen to a breakdown on a song like "The Throne", but considering that you couldn't even cover the entire first song in an hour, I think a video on that song would be 4 hours long lol
i've been obsessed with the structural construction of the songs in stray gods lately, with this song being one of my favorites, so this video was such a treat! morning fades is definitely my favorite hook but all these variations are so interesting
I can't say enough how I love the hearing the songs I've come to love so much being broken down like this. Hearing the instrumentation without vocals especially makes me appreciate how gorgeous the music is. My favourite path in this song is definitely blue and that clarinet! Goosebumps. I also never tire of hearing how the music / instrument choices relate to the characters. Each time I've learned about one of the character's signature instruments I get really excited haha
I will never get tired of watching these videos or playing the game. I can’t even fathom the amount of work, skill, talent, and pure genius it took to make this game by everyone involved.
Thank you for sharing this break down! I played this a few times to see the variations and it was truly hard to pick one that I preferred. All have their own nuances and things I like.
I just recently went through I Can Teach You to see all the variations. My absolute favorite discovery was the clarinet line in the blue-tinged red path (My Time to Shine). Amazing! I really love all three major themes in this one which is not how I feel about all of them. I can't pick a favorite.
awwww... yes! This modulation (in blue track, green choice) is my favourite moment across all the variants! Something I always wait for 😃 Thank you Austin for picking this for the Pantheon edition 😉 So what's next? I guess "The Ritual"? 😁 The song, where variants, I believe, differ from each other the most. Austin, I have impression you are a person who pays great attention to details (based on your other works as well). And I believe that's why you are the wonderful choice for this project - you had enough perseverance to not only define all variants with Tripod, record them with actors, but also to orchestrate and mix them in a way that results in very distinct outcome for each one of them (not to mention leading recording sessions with musicians). Even though, I believe, it must have been very demanding process for you (even if it is your dream project). I, again, greatly appreciate your work 🙏
You are very kind and you're not wrong, detail for me is everything. The broad strokes count too, but I really care about how all the individual pixels click together. It's tedious but rewarding
I'm on my third playthrough of the game with one of my friends, and it's incredible how different each song and each story end up with all the different choices. There's clearly so much thought and care put into this, and the end result is fantastic.
Not me losing my mind halfway seeing the chart not having the same logical consistency of the other charts and getting sidetracked 🤦 Anyway there are so many interesting parts of this that I never would have been able to appreciate on my own, thank you so much for this look under the hood! 💚
That's SO AWESOME, Austin! This game is so fascinating, holy shit. Thank you for sharing all these behind the scenes stuff with us, I absolutely love it. And don't worry, you're abundantly clear in the fact that it was a very colaborative effort. If you've got any more of those, please share them. I'd take however many of these behind the scenes videos as you can make, lol. It's genuinely pretty awesome to see
This is such an interesting insight to the process, thank you for sharing. It wasn't until I tried out variations for "I Can Teach You" that I realized how much the songs can drastically change depending on what you choose, I love it. Also excited to see you all brought in Nile for the harp parts! I went to a small concert of hers when she used to be in Seattle, and it's good to see her in projects like this!~
This was my favorite song, recording the opening music after the vocals was a really good choice. Thanks to that and the sing-talking really drew you into a sort of uncertainty where there's a question raised in your mind. You could say it inspires the same sort of feeling grace herself feels. "What's going on? Is this a good thing... or should I be nervous?"
Please please please do this for all the songs. Or as much as you can. I'd like to experience each one for myself so I can just... drink in all the work you've put into this for myself.
That's crazy man! Looking forward to more of those if you can, maybe cover The Ritual next? Would be cool to see how that mixes into itself, love the "Lost in the moment, lost in the song" motiff of the green part
That was awesome, thank you! I'd love to see more of that for some of the other songs. Especially for Challenging a Queen buuuut I feel like that one's a little bit complex...
@@DallasCrane I did! I actually watched it again as I meant to go back to this here video, coincidentally. I meant a deeper explanation of the entire process like what this video brings, but their video was also a lot of fun to watch!
I love these behind the scenes dev videos from you. Is there any chance you and the team behind Stray Gods are willing to release the branching flowchart design docs you show in these videos? The visual representation of the songs like that is fascinating to me.
@@DallasCrane I've suddenly started wanting an oldschool "save state" code to mark (or launch games from) key turning points. With so many choices, it'd be good to have a definitive hash code so The Discourse could talk coherently. OR, a 'newgame+" mode with a flowchart overlay would be a cool update too.
This was the song that got me hooked into the game; and I love how the production changes depending on the decisions you make! So often, the 'interactive' element of a game's score ends with instrumentation, but this has opened up a whole new level of interactivity! Thank you so much for this deep-dive!
Also (not to spam you with comments but also to up your metrics) I loved how the "friend you can use" phrasing that I knew from the pure-blue ending showed up in the red-tinged blue ending. Seeing how the characters and sprites interacted with the different backgrounds and set choices was super fun too. Curious - Were the actors ever recording together, like Grace and Freddie harmonizing, or were they all individual?
Hah thank you re: the metrics!! :) Sadly actors weren't allowed to be recorded together due to covid protocols from SAG-AFTRA. And frankly, it would've only been in a few songs where it made sense, like the romance songs. Otherwise it would have been supremely inefficient, since there number of variables is so huge.
Bought all four soundtracks and I want more ! I wish eventually the game would get some sort of "mix" mode where you can set the choices and play the song
@@awintory I know the official stance is that there is no canonical ending, but with Laura *and* Ashley involved, i've decided (for myself) that the True End is the "Maximum D&D References" route
I'm CRUSHED that this game remains unplayable on PS4 - the song audio is so bad I can't enjoy Austin's gorgeous work properly and the studio doesn't seem to have any way to support the console release ;________;
@@zoinomiko I'm not quite sure what you mean by "song audio" and I showed your comments to our producer. It doesn't sound consistent with other bugs that were seen ( and fixed). Would you mind submitting a bug report with as much detail as you can? 6k8iky9gz49.typeform.com/to/LWtqd0Y6
This is my favourite song in the game, I just love the pure blue "morning fades" version but it's so cool to see all the variations ! I would love to see something similar for the other songs as well
I cannot explain it properly but somehow first red verse feels like the proper start of this song to me even through I love green and blue chorus better. I'm strange man when it comes to sound and instrumentals. My mother is in love with the first pre chorus btw she just loves this "I don't follow" she doesn't even know english and she just said I love the confusion the girl expresses.
This. This is the reason why I plunked down the money immediately. I want my money to support these projects!! The mixes were so good 🎉
I have such a hard time with this song not starting down the blue path. That clarinet is so delicious. Combined with Pan's soul vocals, it just has a vibe that makes my whole body resonate. It was such an amazing sound.
I hope you get to do more like this! I hope it starts a genre! Thanks for all the music in an amazing game!
Please do this with "challenging a queen", the mixing of the themes is really good there! (I really like the mix of "a thousend times before" from green, the crowd singing from blue, and the rap over it for red)
When the analysis of a single song is 48 minutes, you know you're in for a treat. As a side note, it's awesome hearing these tracks without vocals so we can really appreciate the instrumentals, I absolutely adore how much you have panning back and forth binaurally here. The bit at 24:06 was especially awesome to me.
And with the vocals, I had never noticed just HOW dry pop vocals are mixed, it's fascinating hearing that without the instrumentation.
Also, I've said it a million times but it is insanely impressive how much effort and detail went into this music. I love the way the different instruments represent the different paths and motifs, and the way you mix and match instruments for the different paths and endings is nothing short of amazing.
Thanks for sharing more with us Austin, I can't wait to see what comes next!
Thank you so so much!
This. Listening to someone go through the branching paths on this song earlier this year is what made me get the game.
I absolutely love the Breakdown you did here! I never noticed just how much the instruments mash-up when you go between colors. I would love to listen to a breakdown on a song like "The Throne", but considering that you couldn't even cover the entire first song in an hour, I think a video on that song would be 4 hours long lol
I'm so glad you post more of the schemes!!! We need them all!😅
LOL yes, all the flowcharts and as many backing tracks as you're willing to release 😂
exactumondo 😃
this game is SO brilliant and i would love a dissection of every song in time :) especially one of Persephone's
i've been obsessed with the structural construction of the songs in stray gods lately, with this song being one of my favorites, so this video was such a treat! morning fades is definitely my favorite hook but all these variations are so interesting
I can't say enough how I love the hearing the songs I've come to love so much being broken down like this. Hearing the instrumentation without vocals especially makes me appreciate how gorgeous the music is. My favourite path in this song is definitely blue and that clarinet! Goosebumps.
I also never tire of hearing how the music / instrument choices relate to the characters. Each time I've learned about one of the character's signature instruments I get really excited haha
I will never get tired of watching these videos or playing the game. I can’t even fathom the amount of work, skill, talent, and pure genius it took to make this game by everyone involved.
Very excited to play this. Would love more videos like this/ behind the scenes
Thank you for sharing this break down!
I played this a few times to see the variations and it was truly hard to pick one that I preferred. All have their own nuances and things I like.
I just recently went through I Can Teach You to see all the variations. My absolute favorite discovery was the clarinet line in the blue-tinged red path (My Time to Shine). Amazing! I really love all three major themes in this one which is not how I feel about all of them. I can't pick a favorite.
It also wasn't until hearing you lay out the Pan melody that I realized it's the basis for Grace's solo LOL
awwww... yes! This modulation (in blue track, green choice) is my favourite moment across all the variants! Something I always wait for 😃
Thank you Austin for picking this for the Pantheon edition 😉
So what's next? I guess "The Ritual"? 😁 The song, where variants, I believe, differ from each other the most.
Austin, I have impression you are a person who pays great attention to details (based on your other works as well). And I believe that's why you are the wonderful choice for this project - you had enough perseverance to not only define all variants with Tripod, record them with actors, but also to orchestrate and mix them in a way that results in very distinct outcome for each one of them (not to mention leading recording sessions with musicians). Even though, I believe, it must have been very demanding process for you (even if it is your dream project). I, again, greatly appreciate your work 🙏
You are very kind and you're not wrong, detail for me is everything. The broad strokes count too, but I really care about how all the individual pixels click together. It's tedious but rewarding
I'm on my third playthrough of the game with one of my friends, and it's incredible how different each song and each story end up with all the different choices. There's clearly so much thought and care put into this, and the end result is fantastic.
Not me losing my mind halfway seeing the chart not having the same logical consistency of the other charts and getting sidetracked 🤦
Anyway there are so many interesting parts of this that I never would have been able to appreciate on my own, thank you so much for this look under the hood! 💚
I really loved the intro to the song. Pan’s voice REALLY nailed it!!!
That's SO AWESOME, Austin! This game is so fascinating, holy shit. Thank you for sharing all these behind the scenes stuff with us, I absolutely love it. And don't worry, you're abundantly clear in the fact that it was a very colaborative effort.
If you've got any more of those, please share them. I'd take however many of these behind the scenes videos as you can make, lol. It's genuinely pretty awesome to see
This is such an interesting insight to the process, thank you for sharing. It wasn't until I tried out variations for "I Can Teach You" that I realized how much the songs can drastically change depending on what you choose, I love it.
Also excited to see you all brought in Nile for the harp parts! I went to a small concert of hers when she used to be in Seattle, and it's good to see her in projects like this!~
Nile is the best!! She had 5 billion recordings to do on this game and crushed them all
This was my favorite song, recording the opening music after the vocals was a really good choice. Thanks to that and the sing-talking really drew you into a sort of uncertainty where there's a question raised in your mind. You could say it inspires the same sort of feeling grace herself feels. "What's going on? Is this a good thing... or should I be nervous?"
Oh wow, that change at 40:05... that is amazing
Please please please do this for all the songs. Or as much as you can. I'd like to experience each one for myself so I can just... drink in all the work you've put into this for myself.
That's crazy man! Looking forward to more of those if you can, maybe cover The Ritual next? Would be cool to see how that mixes into itself, love the "Lost in the moment, lost in the song" motiff of the green part
That was awesome, thank you! I'd love to see more of that for some of the other songs. Especially for Challenging a Queen buuuut I feel like that one's a little bit complex...
Did you see 8 Bit Music Theory's video about Challenging a Queen?
@@DallasCrane I did! I actually watched it again as I meant to go back to this here video, coincidentally. I meant a deeper explanation of the entire process like what this video brings, but their video was also a lot of fun to watch!
Truly a Masterpiece, we would love to see you breakdown challenging a queen
This is so cool. My favorite is green and green! I just love the lost girls part of the song hehe
I love these behind the scenes dev videos from you. Is there any chance you and the team behind Stray Gods are willing to release the branching flowchart design docs you show in these videos? The visual representation of the songs like that is fascinating to me.
Would love to make more graphics... So far, we've released charts for Pan's song, Apollo's Intro, and Persephone's battle
Oh awesome! Is there a link to those files? They are great :)
Thank you! Check out my Twitter or IG. Any we make I share there :)
@@DallasCrane I've suddenly started wanting an oldschool "save state" code to mark (or launch games from) key turning points. With so many choices, it'd be good to have a definitive hash code so The Discourse could talk coherently.
OR, a 'newgame+" mode with a flowchart overlay would be a cool update too.
This was the song that got me hooked into the game; and I love how the production changes depending on the decisions you make! So often, the 'interactive' element of a game's score ends with instrumentation, but this has opened up a whole new level of interactivity! Thank you so much for this deep-dive!
Damn now I wish we got an instrumental version of the songs wink wink
but WHICH version?!?
@@awintory GOOD POINT
@@awintory Red, Blue, Green and Pantheon are the easiest in this regard. That being said, I do like the Kickass ending to Lost in a Moment.
Thanks for making these. They are really informative. 🙏
Also (not to spam you with comments but also to up your metrics) I loved how the "friend you can use" phrasing that I knew from the pure-blue ending showed up in the red-tinged blue ending. Seeing how the characters and sprites interacted with the different backgrounds and set choices was super fun too.
Curious - Were the actors ever recording together, like Grace and Freddie harmonizing, or were they all individual?
Hah thank you re: the metrics!! :)
Sadly actors weren't allowed to be recorded together due to covid protocols from SAG-AFTRA. And frankly, it would've only been in a few songs where it made sense, like the romance songs. Otherwise it would have been supremely inefficient, since there number of variables is so huge.
@@awintory aah that makes sense. Makes the mixing even more impressive!
Bought all four soundtracks and I want more ! I wish eventually the game would get some sort of "mix" mode where you can set the choices and play the song
I frame red as the "skip tutorial" option
Ha! That's funny
@@awintory I know the official stance is that there is no canonical ending, but with Laura *and* Ashley involved, i've decided (for myself) that the True End is the "Maximum D&D References" route
@@hunrahel HA
I'm CRUSHED that this game remains unplayable on PS4 - the song audio is so bad I can't enjoy Austin's gorgeous work properly and the studio doesn't seem to have any way to support the console release ;________;
I thought a console patch JUST went out??
@@awintory There was one at the beginning of the week but it didn't seem to do anything :( (even fully reinstalled the game! ;_; )
@@zoinomiko I'm not quite sure what you mean by "song audio" and I showed your comments to our producer. It doesn't sound consistent with other bugs that were seen ( and fixed). Would you mind submitting a bug report with as much detail as you can? 6k8iky9gz49.typeform.com/to/LWtqd0Y6
@@awintory Yessir thank you muchly I will submit in with video tomorrow when I am sober!