Thursday, July 23, 2020

MIDI Week Singles: "Create & Share!" - Chicken Wiggle (3DS)


"Create & Share!" from Chicken Wiggle on the 3DS (2017)
Composer: Matthew Gambrell
Album: Chicken Wiggle 
Label: Bandcamp
Publisher: Atooi
Developer: Atooi



I do not think I need to use the disclaimer here (again), so I will just link to the original Game EXP article I wrote almost three years ago.  Interestingly enough, I had mentioned using this track for a MIDI Week Singles article so that is where I wanted to land for today (being a day late from yesterday).

"Create & Share!" was probably one of my favorite tracks from the game, which is a little amusing as it is the music that plays while you create your own stages that you later share in the in-game's dedicated library of user-created content.  There is just something about the melody predominantly hear on a keyboard-type instrument, but then there is also a flute that comes in a couple of times that just really endears the song to me even more than had the flute not been there at all.  The flute does make more appearances later on in the soundtrack carrying the melody.  And all of this works really well while using the in-game toolkit to create custom levels (a la Super Mario Maker being the closest comparison).  The song is interesting enough to have on the background on a four-minute loop when you are pretty sure that you are going to be spending more than four minutes creating, tooling, and fine-tuning stages.

I am very interested to see how this song develops when the game is essentially remade after a successful Kickstarter campaign (back in 2018) when it is released later this year on the Switch as Hatch Tales, which will include newly orchestrated music from Grant Kirkhope.  Will he use themes already written by Matthew Gambrell or an entirely new melody?



~JWfW/JDub/Cooking Crack/Jaconian

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