Mixtape Devs Break Down The Game's Soundtrack

"“I love Devo, I'm a big Devo fan. There seems to be this weird, Devo-shaped hole in my heart, and when I listen to Devo it just goes in and I feel complete. So I love that song and we started out and then we were like. ‘Well, what if we, what if we built a game around a mixtape with individual tracks?’ [It's] my favorite song of all time.”"

"“The team picked songs they wanted to feature and worked backward, starting with the opening song, ‘That's Good’ by new wave band DEVO. With music being so central to the game, I had to ask Galvatron and Woodward why they chose the songs they did, and we ended up going track-by-track across the entire game.”"

"“Not every song had a huge story attached, and some were sought out to fill in gaps in the story, but by and large, Galvatron says protagonist Stacy Rockford's titular mixtape is his ‘greatest hits of all time,’ and that the game was built around the playlist.”"

"“Things slow down a bit when the group reaches their destination and hangs out in Stacy's bedroom, set to the chill tones of ‘Just Like Honey.’ JG: The perfect bedroom hangout vibe, yeah, as Stacy Rockford says. It's a classic scene song. It's also in a couple of very famous films as well, so it veers off f”"

A mood-setting mixtape soundtrack anchors a coming-of-age narrative adventure. The playlist was assembled by selecting songs the team wanted to feature and then working backward from the opening track, “That’s Good” by DEVO. The game’s structure centers on Stacy Rockford’s mixtape as a greatest-hits collection, with the playlist guiding setpieces and pacing. Some songs were chosen to fill gaps in the story, while others had less explicit narrative context. As the group reaches a destination, the soundtrack shifts to match character spaces, including a bedroom hangout scene set to “Just Like Honey” by The Jesus and Mary Chain, described as a classic scene song with cinematic associations.

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