Auto Age Standoff will have the perfect music to accompany its mayhem-fueled car battles
When you’re cruising in your ride, you need some appropriate tunes to provide the right vibe. Sometimes you’re relaxed and want mellow tracks; other times you’re nostalgic and more in the mood for some classics. But what about when you’re engaged in deadly car-battles in a dystopian near-future? There just aren’t that many appropriate songs that come to mind. Well, the developers of Auto Age Standoff have solved this problem by getting some of Canada’s best Indie musicians to do the soundtrack for their upcoming Steam four-wheel-battler, and the results are sounding like one deadly mother of a mixtape.
What exactly is Auto Age Standoff? “[It] embodies a retro future where the 1980s never died,” says game director Tony Walsh. “Before the days of iTunes playlists and streaming music services, kids had just one outlet for customizing their listening sessions: a handcrafted mixtape.” And now they are putting together a mixtape that they promise will capture that vibe perfectly.
Each killer vehicle is apparently equipped with its own customizable in-game mixtape starring synth-funk electronic stylings of TWRP, the retro-tinged synthwave sound of 20SIX Hundred, the heavy-rocking metal of Skull Fist, and the tech-noir outrun melodies of Stilz.
The musicians are pretty stoked about the whole thing too, by the sounds of it. “As fellow Canadians who dig rad tunes and bad ass video games, it is a great feeling to be a part of Auto Age,” said Skull Fist guitarist Zach Slaughter. “The graphics rule, the premise rules, the game rules, and even the soundtrack rules!”
In addition to its in-game mixtape, the devs say that Auto Age Standoff includes original soundtrack music from Toronto’s own Jim Guthrie. Previous to his work on Auto Age, Guthrie has lent his considerable talents to notable Canadian indie games like Sound Shapes, Below, and Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery. Guthrie is also the artist responsible for the soundtrack to Indie Game: The Movie.
“Jim is an absolute legend in the indie games music scene, not to mention the Canadian music scene at large,” says Ericka Evans of Phantom Compass. “We’re honoured to be working not only with Jim but with the great Canadian mixtape musicians.. What better project to meet at the crossroads of Canadian indie music and Canadian indie games than one that literally puts you behind the wheel?”
Auto Age Standoff is a game of car combat and multiplayer strategy that is coming to Steam later this year. If you want to know more about it check out their official page here. The game has a Steam page too that you might want to look over. We will definitely be watching this one when it comes out later in 2016.
SOURCE: Press Release