Description
Runaway

About the music:
This soundtrack was heavily inspired by the Stranger Things soundtrack. I've always had a special plays for synthesizers and the 80s and the Stranger Things soundtrack really hit me with that. I decided to use synthesizers to capture an eighties feeling but still give it my own twist such as the odd time signatures and the guitars for example. The sounds used in Stranger Things also gave me this runaway feeling so that's why I went with it.


Story:

The year is 1987, the player lives in a post-apocalyptic world. A science experiment had gone wrong and caused the corruption of the human brain, it turned them into insane, aggressive and territorial creatures. The player lives in a safe camp where a big group of survivors live under the ''safety'' of the Stable Corporation. The player finds out that the Stable corporation isn’t looking to help the survivors but rather trap them and experiment on them in isolation, thus evil is uncovered. The players tries to escape, hoping to find the Paradise that was rumoured to be out in the world somewhere. The Stable corporation denied the existence of this so-called Paradise to avoid losing their test subjects. Every man who had tried to escape to find the Paradise, was never found again, yet never even left the premises.

After the player makes their first steps outside Stable ground they travel towards the mysterious Paradise not knowing if it even exists, only driven by the rumours and stories they heard about it. But before they know it, Stable soldiers are trying to hunt down the player. The player avoids confrontation but is ambushed by a lone soldier, the soldier calls for backup and the player uses the environment to kill the soldier before running away. Backup arrives to a dead soldier, thrown off a bridge, slammed against rocks. Stable gambles with their soldiers’ lives and sends even more out to the outside world, threatening the runaway.

In the distance the player sees a city, one building has a very faint light in it and the players objective is to reach that light for signs of other escapees. Using stealth to navigate the city and buildings, the player finally reaches the building with the faint light. Upon entering the player is immediately caught in a trap and is knocked out.

When the player wakes up he is greeted by other humans, but they weren’t runaways. They were just left for dead when the building got swarmed. The other humans realize that the player isn’t a threat and they untie him. The player tells the survivors about the Paradise and after long consideration, the survivors decide that they will accompany the player as they won’t accomplish anything by staying in the city.

Accompanied by new friends, the player continues on the quest but soon encounters the true horror and danger of the outside world. They encounter the Outsiders. These were the corrupt humans that were hit by the failed science experiment, they spread by breaking through a humans skull, reaching their brain and infecting it. After the infection the brain parts of the brain start to rot away due to the corruption.

After travelling a long way, Paradise finally turns into reality. The player is close to their end point but is ambushed by Stable. Stable made a gamble sending out more forces but their goal had been achieved, the player only had to lead them to the Paradise. Threatening to kill the player and take over the Paradise. The player now learns the even bigger truth about Stable: Stable is the reason for the entire corruption and were always able to stop the spread and save humanity, but they didn’t. They had only created a far bigger and worse experiment. All the people who had been taken away by Stable were fused into one big monster. The player and their friends take on the fight and start battling evil.

Before nearly losing the fight for what’s left of humanity, the player is suddenly helped. After almost all hope was gone, hundreds of troops come storming out of Paradise, giving the player the advantage. Evil is defeated and the player is welcomed into Paradise and is given special treatment. The player and their friends are given good living conditions, turning their live into their own Paradise.



Tracklist:
1. Title Theme
This plays on the menu screen.

2. Evil Uncovered - Stable Corporation Theme
This is the Stable Corporation theme and this plays for the first time when the player finds out the truth about Stable Corp.

3. First Steps
This plays when the player takes their first steps outside of the Stable Corp. premises.

4. The Outside World - World Theme
This plays when the player sees the Outside World for the first time, and all the bad things that come with it. This is the world theme.

5. Friends - Hero Theme
This plays when the player meets a group of surviving humans that become the players friends. The player and their friends are the heroes, thus this is the hero theme.

6. The Outsiders - Enemy Theme
This plays when the heroes encounter the Outsiders. The corrupt human beings. This is theme that plays when the player encounters enemies.

7. Battling Evil - Combat Theme
This is plays when the player is in combat with evil beings. This is the combat theme.

8. Evil Defeated
This plays when the heroes defeat Stable Corp.

9. Paradise
This plays when the heroes make it to their goal and have live in Paradise.

10. A Runaways Closure
This plays after the player completes the game and watches the end credits.


The DAW I used FL Studio, the synths I used come from built in plugins such as harmor, harmless and sawer although harmor and harmless were only used in one track.

I also used EZDrummer for the acoustic drum parts and Odin II for the guitar. To create that heavy guitar sound I used iZotope Trash.

I used some effects like kHs ladder filter, kHs reverb, kHs filter and kHs reverser.

I used iZotope neutron 3 visual mixer to do some stereo mixing.

Theme:

Runaway

Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
The player lives in a post apocalyptic world, but after finding out the truth about the place they stay, they leave and become a runaway in search of a better place.

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/lamorak-239504912/sets/runaway?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing