The Lost Songs
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
This game is about engaging with musical archives that are threatened to be forgotten.
You play as guitarist exploring a forlorn countryside as you search for a forgotten record of American folk music. Along the way, you run into artifacts which emanate music from their fibers. This gives you the chance to play alongside musical legends such as Bukka White, Kokomo Arnold, Blind Blake, and Mississippi John Hurt. Your only companion is your guitar, which you may strum as you explore the dreamlike landscape.
Features:
- tactile, playable guitar!
- 4 explorable levels (10 minutes of gameplay)
- Jam with NPCs
- Experience historical music in a new way
- ps2-inspired graphics
About the creator:
Sean Moore is a filmmaker and video game designer who explores the ever-growing integration between the physical and digital world. Sean’s work creates a dialogue between his films, games, and creative website design. His filmmaking comes from the tradition of direct cinema and observational filmmaking, which also inform his philosophy of game design. His work observes the boundaries of a world you just stepped in on as a stranger. He wants his watchers/players to connect with that world in an intimate way, that's more meaningful than blundering your way through it without taking the time to appreciate it nor letting it leave its imprint on you. As technology continues to evolve, Sean’s work explores how we will experience the most fundamental unit of human culture -- the story.
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Development log
- The Game is Launched!Mar 17, 2021
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Nice concept :)
Thank you :)
there was some random stuff like dying is just a blank screen but I managed to press quit
Thanks for the heads up! Through my play-testing, I must have missed some of the ways to die in the game. Could you let me know how you died so I could try to fix this?
the brown map has a end witch is the edge and i fell into then thats how
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omg this is so cool :) thank you for playing
you cannot play your game without the game folder. The exe file on its own is not enough data for someone to play the game
Thanks for alerting me of this! The game isn't fully finished yet, and I didn't make that clear on the page, so my bad! It will be ready March 17th!
The game is now uploaded and playable!