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Fever Dream (from Whack​-​A​-​Telltale Heart)

from Global Game Jam 2013 (Cleveland Game Developers) by Ian Faleer

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This game, as the name would imply, is described by the creator as "whack-a-mole meets The Telltale Heart". As you may recall, the narrator in The Telltale Heart is tormented by auditory hallucinations of a beating heart after committing a gruesome murder. In this game you must "whack" various bizarre objects that twist and distort themselves as they fly toward you in a surreal, minimalist game environment. Beneath the music, an ominous heartbeat persists throughout the game. Since the game was so abstract and surreal I wanted to emulate the sound of a jazz combo using dissonance, repetition, and improvisation to create a weird, creepy, slightly crazy musical affect. Fellow game jammer Jarryd Huntley did a fantastic job playing a variety of strumming patterns on the mandolin, which I layered in various ways throughout the track.

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from Global Game Jam 2013 (Cleveland Game Developers), released January 27, 2013
Music composed and recorded by Ian Faleer
Mandolin played by Jarryd Huntley

Whack-a-Telltale Heart was designed and programmed by Brandon Evans.

A full description and link to play Whack-a-Telltale Heart can be found here: globalgamejam.org/2013/whack-telltale-heart

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Ian Faleer Oberlin, Ohio

Ian Faleer is a graduate of the Oberlin College Conservatory. He works in Northeast Ohio as a music educator, choral conductor, and freelance composer/sound designer for games and other media.

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