In the game Escaping Wonderland, the player needs to negotiate with several teen mice who have adopted a rather risk-indifferent lifestyle. (The visualization of which is rather amusing; play the game if you’d like to experience it firsthand!)

This week’s music accompanies the mice with a dark carnival tune, emphasizing the comedic side of an incautious lifestyle.

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This week’s music selection from Escaping Wonderland accompanies the mischievous puzzle-solving happenings in the game’s estate biome.

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Continuing the exploration of the Escaping Wonderland soundtrack, this week’s music selection accompanies a region inhabited by rebellious teen mice. Specifically, they’re rebelling against basic safety precautions, casually lounging near burning stoves, mouse traps, etc. Needless to say, their mom is concerned.

The score reflects their blasé attitude with a quasi-vaudevillian mood and theme for solo whistler.

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The above title should really be “cue of the month”, as I’ve been tied up scoring a rather charming Christmas movie while this blog/newsletter/etc has been sadly neglected. That neglect ends today!

In the game Escaping Wonderland, available for finer virtual reality headsets everywhere, the player ascends by means of an elevator. Naturally the score includes elevator music, which was tremendously fun to write. (Owners of actual elevators, I am available for commissions.) This one takes inspiration from 1960s lounge pop.

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Last week’s music selection accompanied a puzzle in Escaping Wonderland wherein the player is standing on the ground, as gravity would normally lead us to expect. However, magic is afoot, and the puzzle also needs to be tackled by someone standing on the ceiling.

To score this moment, I wrote an “upside-down” version of the previous piece. Where the original melody goes up, the new one goes down, and so on. I also had fun swapping instrumentation and register, and otherwise making this cue feel like the mirror inversion of its sibling. (Follow the link above if you’d like to compare the two.)

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This week’s music accompanies an Escaping Wonderland puzzle which requires simultaneously navigating both floor and ceiling. (Gravity is unusually flexible in this particular area.) This week you’ll hear the “normal” music, and next time you’ll hear the accompanying upside-down cue, which, appropriately, inverts the melody.

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Continuing the musical exploration of Escaping Wonderland, this week’s selection comes from the game’s Bitter Glade region. As the title suggests… there’s a lot of snow. But there’s also fun problem-solving and impish humor, and the score tries to reflect all of the above with a wistful but light-footed tone.

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