
Affordable Space Adventures is, in this writer's opinion, one of the finest download-only titles on the Wii U eShop. It's a rare example in which the GamePad is used brilliantly, and as it's part of the current Humble Friends of Nintendo Bundle there's no excuse for Wii U owners not to try it.
Beyond its clever and involving gameplay it also has terrific sound design. That's hardly surprising when Game Director Nicklas Nygren is involved (http://nifflas.ni2.se/ - @nifflas on Twitter), but the soundtrack itself also has contributions from D Fast (www.dfastmusic.net – @dfast on Twitter) and Sidsel Marie Hermansen (www.sidselhermansen.net - @SsLHrmnsN on Twitter). The music is atmospheric and swings from cheerful to moody depending on the situation, and at some points is driven primarily by sound effects, such as the engine of the player's ship.
The pleasing news is that the soundtrack is now available as a free download, and we've had a pleasant time listening to it. Nygren - known to many as Nifflas - co-developed the game with KnapNok Games, and he gave us the track list and spoke a little about the soundtrack.
- Award-winning seats
- You Can Be a Professional Space Explorer
- Spectaculon – Outtake
- What Do You Mean NOT Spectaculon
- Endless Caves
- If You Do However Encounter an Artifact, Don't Panic
- Poot Poot
- My Name is Alex
- The Beat is Coming
- The Robot Factory
- What Did I Do
- Origin Story
- This Game Has Too Long Loading Times
- The Core
- The Ship Was Not Designed for This
- Concern Pod – Downtempo
- Concern Pod – Ambient
- Concern Pod – Beach Waves
- Concern Pod - Outtake
Affordable Space Adventures isn't a game with tons of "songs", but the sound effects were designed to be in a musical key. Some tunes in the soundtrack (e.g. Poot Poot, which consists entirely of the sounds the space ship makes) are for that reason actually pretty musical.
Speaking of Poot Poot - apart from being a tune in the soundtrack, it is also the canonical name of the game's spaceship, in honour of the adorable "Two People Playing Games" who makes awesome LPs ( on YouTube / @2peepeeG). Many of the Affordable Space Adventures developers ended up watching their playthrough of our game.
The song "This Game Has Too Long Loading Times" is named after the main complaint we got about the game, and consists of all sound effects that plays during loading (there's a lot of it). We unfortunately couldn't optimize the loading times further unless we did realtime streaming of the levels, which is highly complicated and would have taken time from developing aspects of the game we considered far more important. Instead, we made sure the loading screens had unique sounds and visuals, for example the spaceship's manual, which ties into the game's fiction.
If you want to download the soundtrack you can use the following link, though bear in mind that clicking on it will auto-download a zip file - Affordable Space Adventures soundtrack
Nygren will also be uploading the soundtrack to his official website soon.
Check it out and let us know what you think - you've picked up Affordable Space Adventures for the Wii U already, right?
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That's pretty cool that they did that for the fans. It would be nice if Nintendo did that too....
Excellent game, excellent soundtrack. I am tempted to pick it up.
On topic, still waiting for "FAST Racing NEO" OST as well, wonder what Shin'en meant on their tweet about it being delayed "for a good reason"...
INCREDIBLE game. I remember when they showed it off on Treehouse Live at E3 20...14? Or was it 2015? My gut tells me 2014. Anyway. I LOVED it then and couldn't wait for it to come out! It's been a total blast, incredibly unique game but in the best ways where everything is tremendously well implemented and executed. The controls are fantastic, the visuals are lovely, the music is great, it's just a tremendous experience
I'm loving this game having picked it up as part of the humble bundle. I've only played a couple of hours so far but my only complaint was a lack of music to accompany the quality gameplay. Strange it's getting recognition, maybe I'm just not up to that bit yet!?!
It's got a really lovely soundtrack. Reminds me a little of Metroid.
@Shiryu Tempted to pick it up? Just buy the Humble Friends of Nintendo $1 bundle and you'll have it. I bought the $10 bundle myself, but you don't have to to get it.
@leo13 You misunderstand, I meant the OST. I have "Affordable Space Adventures" from day 1, full price. =)
@Shiryu Oh sorry about that. You're a better guy than I am, I wanted to pick it up at launch, but I was worried that i might not like it and so I waited.
@leo13 It's a great game to play alone, but a riot with friends over. =)
Free? Well that's pretty affordable.
Jokes about the soundtrack being more affordable than the game galore!
@AlexSora89 @Darkwario1 lol yeah... but the games $1 atm so if thats not affordable then ops...
Sweet. Thanks for the soundtrack (and for taking part in the Humble Bundle)!
I love free stuff! Especially soundtracks
I'm glad I picked this game up day-one, the feeling of going into it blind, having seen no actual footage of the game beforehand by choice, is something I wish I could experience again. I can remember the ambient noises in the game majorly adding to that experience, and a free soundtrack to coincide with the game being truly affordable to all for a few more days is a great thing.
amazing game. highly recommended to everybody. let's keep these guys on nintendo systems!
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