Since day 1, music was super important to me. I've grown up listening to incredible soundtracks but noticed as we entered the most recent generations, it felt like larger companies treated it like an afterthought. Generic orchestral overtook memorable tunes with great melodies that would get stuck in your head forever.

However in the indie space some amazing things happened, and in the shadows (or so it felt) were some amazing musicians creating soundtracks that would resonate with the world. The best example of this was probably Toby Fox and Undertale, which on all fronts had a huge impact on myself and the team. The music was incredible, and so powerful when it needed to be. No orchestral nonsense required (Not crapping on it, I just feel like it's been used lazily in a lot of games).

So to tell the story we have with Shot One, I really needed to find someone with that special something extra going on. Someone who understood the power of a good melody, who had fun making music and had injected it with their own personality. It took nearly a year of tirelessly searching on Soundcloud mainly and some failures, but one day I finally ran into a track simply called 'Soundbank74' by an awesome dude called Niko, aka Arcien who does music as a hobby.

It was like a lightning bolt struck my brain. It had energy, it had an incredible melody and the variety in it's 6 minute duration was amazing. It's hard to describe when you feel like someone goes that extra mile in their work, but he had that extra something I'd been looking on for so long. This was just last December! I was close to losing my mind at that point as we had PAX right around the corner and no music we were happy with. Music was just too important, we couldn't settle. I've stopped playing games because they had uninspired soundtracks! Anyone else feel the same?

With only a month and some spare change, he had to capture the spirit of the project and this uphill battle we were fighting. When he finally posted the theme he had come up with- It was like we watched the game gain it's soul in such an early state. It's hard to forget how it felt. So I am excited to eventually share what else Arcien is going to cook up if this is just the appetizer round..We want the soundtrack to be something you go back and listen to time and time again.

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