Crater Lake Mall - A Fantasy Horror Video Game Soundtrack with Flyover Indies

In February, for February Album Writing Month, my game design group did a month-long music jam where we all worked on songs for a hypothetical soundtrack for a made-up survival horror / adventure game!

The game is set in an abandoned shopping mall next to the mysterious Crater Lake. A group of teens ventured inside to check out the empty shopping center, only to find it haunted with a variety of supernatural and interdimensional creatures. After the teens wind up trapped inside, some of their older siblings & their friends venture in to rescue them, with the help of a duo of Paranormal Investigators.

So far as a group we've created 14 tracks--enough to 'win' the FAWM challenge! We're taking the first couple of weeks to finalize things & then we plan to put the album together for release sometime toward the end of the month. Here's a list of what we've made so far:

  1. Paranormal Investigator Van by Frazier Krohn - A 'safe area' / 'save spot' theme for a van full of strange gadgets & devices.
  2. Mushroom Jungle by Just Nate - Theme for a fungal play-area, inspired by the mushroom kids' area in Independence Center (KCMO).
  3. Staff Hallways - Alert! by me & Barbara Magiera - A chase theme for when you set off the alarm going into the staff-only area.
  4. Terebi Heaven by Gage Bradley - A ghostly theme for a haunted Japanese electronics store.
  5. Mushroom Fight! by Just Nate - Battle theme for the aforementioned mushrooms.
  6. Post Box Theme by Johanna Morgan & me - Motif for the various post-boxes players can use to store & transfer items.
  7. Welcome! (Main Menu Theme) by me & Barbara Magiera - A main menu theme & welcome message from the mall.
  8. Parking Garage by Johanna Morgan & me - Theme for the mall's vast & crumbling underground parking system.
  9. Lonely Halls by me, Johanna Morgan, and Cody - Background theme for traveling inside the mall.
  10. Game Over by Johanna Morgan and Barbara Magiera - A game over tune & farewelle message from the mall.
  11. I could have left sooner by Harmon - A mid-game moment of regret.
  12. First Floor by Frazier Krohn - An early stage tune for inside the mall.
  13. Pretzel Shack by me - A jingle for one of the mall's strangely functional food shops.
  14. Dark Corridors by me - A theme for the long, mysterious hallways deep inside the staff-only area.

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