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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Christmas Music: part12 - "O Come O Come Emmanuel"

For the ultimate bosses in The Elf Who Killed Christmas, we figured that they should have their own unique music. After all, isn't Santa Claus that kind of villain? For that reason we wanted a completely different song for the fight against Santa Claus. On different Christmas albums and performances, I found "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" combined with "O Come O Come Emmanuel," and so it seems that there is a tradition of these two tunes going together. And so they are together in our video game.

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Monday, November 24, 2014

Christmas Music: part11 - "Jingle Bells"

Most of the music for The Elf Who Killed Christmas has a very electronic feel, so I wanted to change at least one or two of the tunes up. Earlier, I wrote about a chill remix of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," that was inspired by the hip-hop genre. I also wanted to present an some sort of punk version of a traditional Christmas tune. For whatever reason, "Jingle Bells" seemed like the most obvious tune that would fit the punk genre best.

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Christmas Music: part10 - "Silent Night"

This is the third and final remix of "Silent Night" for the Christmas themed video game The Elf Who Killed Christmas.  One thing I liked about this tune was the pitch bending that wasn't too dramatic, but I did feel like it accented the excitement at different points nicely, almost as if a bomb was going to go off. Whereas the pitch changes for the quiet remix of "Silent Night" give a haunting feeling, the pitch bends here are fun!

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Monday, November 17, 2014

Christmas Music: part9 - "Carol of the Bells"

For the Elf Who Killed Christmas, we remixed each of three traditional Christmas tunes 3 different times. In earlier parts of this blog series on the music, we explored the conflict remixes of the music  (when the player is fighting enemies), and the quieter remixes of the music (when there are no enemies on the screen to fight). These final remixes that we're sharing here are going to play during the big bosses in the game (the Yeti, the NutcrackerRoboSanta, Santa Claus, and Krampus).

Here is the first boss music, "Carol of the Bells."


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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Christmas Music: part8 - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

This remix for "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" the only quiet tune for The Elf Who Killed Christmas that is actually not so quiet (especially compared to the others: "Silent Night," "Jingle Bells," and "Carol of the Bells"). I had heard some other quiet music, and I realized that quiet did not necessarily mean without drums. I made the drums a little more simple than I might have in some of the more excited versions, remixes that were supposed to play during fighting scenes. For example, the remix below might be compared to the more energetic remix of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."



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Monday, November 10, 2014

Christmas Music: part7 - "Silent Night"

This remix of "Silent Night" is one of the very few times that I actually changed some of the original notes around. Of course, the easiest thing to do would have been to change the major melody to a minor key. However, I wanted more of an atonal, or out-of-tuned feeling instead of simply a minor feeling. I felt that a few notes out of tune, or bent, would give more of an uncomfortable feeling. Like the quiet versions of "Carol of the Bells," and "Jingle Bells," this remix seems a bit scarier than a traditional Christmas tune.



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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Christmas Music: part6 - "Jingle Bells"

Here is a eerie version of "Jingle Bells" for The Elf Who Killed Christmas. It would have been easy to merely allow the tune to play through without much production, but we wanted to skew the conceptions of Christmas that are taken for granted. Many of these quieter remixes of traditional Christmas tunes might actually be better served during Halloween.



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Monday, November 3, 2014

Christmas Music: part5 - "Carol of the Bells"

We wanted each of the four levels of The Elf Who Killed Christmas to have its own traditional Christmas tune. That meant that for each level, we would need three remixes of the same tune: 1) a quieter version for walking around, 2) a more exciting version for fighting, and 3) another exciting version for the level boss.

The next few posts will be the darker, quieter versions of each of the four Christmas tunes we remixed. Here is a haunting version of "Carol of the Bells."



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