10
January
2025
Cue of the Week: “Dodo’s Theme”
In Escaping Wonderland (Cortopia Studios’ highly-acclaimed story-based VR game) you’re accompanied on much of your journey by an eponymous Dodo, a benevolent but nervous companion.... Read More
03
January
2025
Cue of the Week: “Music Machine”
First off, happy (recent) New Year! And now for something completely different. This cue from Escaping Wonderland is diegetic, or music that exists in the... Read More
20
December
2024
Cue of the Week: “Light Bulb Workers”
So, the mine level of Escaping Wonderland is populated with laboring light bulbs. They’re simultaneously adorable and pitiable, their plight an allegory for creatives under... Read More
13
December
2024
Cue of the Week: “Caverns and Carts”
This week’s music selection from the VR game Escaping Wonderland is the second of three bouncy “mine exploration” themes. (Meaning a cave where precious minerals... Read More
06
December
2024
Cue of the Week: “Exploring the Mine”
This cue from the Escaping Wonderland soundtrack introduces a bouncy little theme for Molly’s exploration of Underland. I think there’s a law that says that... Read More
22
November
2024
Cue of the Week: “Watts”
This week’s music selection from the soundtrack of Escaping Wonderland accompanies the gruff-but-kind supervisor of a mineshaft staffed by sentient light bulbs. (As happens frequently... Read More
08
November
2024
Cue of the Week: “Trusty Slingshot”
This music from Escaping Wonderland accompanies the player firing a slingshot with fruit ammunition in a cave. For reasons known only to my subconscious, I... Read More
01
November
2024
Cue of the Week: “Nowhere to Go but Up”
This week’s music from Escaping Wonderland starts early in the game, where poor Molly finds herself lost in bleak-looking caverns. The score is appropriately melancholy.... Read More
25
October
2024
Cue of the Week: “Mr. Mole’s Home”
I know, “Mr. Mole’s House” rolls off the tongue more euphoniously, but said mole lives in what could be described as warmly-decorated cave, and I... Read More
11
October
2024
Cue of the Week: “A Melody Remembered”
Over the next few weeks, I’ll share some of my favorite score tracks from Escaping Wonderland, a just-released VR game that takes place in an... Read More
