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Summer Nights

Summer Nights (Late Night Edit)

Original Game Soundtrack for Swatchbucklers

Calm Seas

Batten Down The Swatches

Splash N' Dash

1099 Opening And Outro

Original game soundtrack for Mayor Quandry: Cute Toys, Ugly Problems. This game was made as part of Global Game Jam 2020.

As the mayor of the Isle of Misfits, use your community app to make tough decisions to ensure all the toys here are happy, hopeful, and stay in good repair. Life doesn't give these ramshackle toys easy answers. They've got serious problems that need your help. Do your best. These toys might get picked up and played with again someday!

Cover art by milo moore and Soreiany Khong.


Mayor Quandary was developed by...

Design: Liz Spain
Development: Tristan Stanley, Adrian Benitez Martos
Art: milo moore, Soreiany Khong
Narrative: Liz Spain, zw buckley
Music and Sound Design: zw buckley
credits
released February 3, 2020

Composed, produced, mixed, and mastered by zw buckley

Choir on Mayor Quandary and The Inauguration: Xan Farley, Aiden Hilsen, Joey Baleda, Jonathan Day, Corwin Waldron, Soreiany Khong

A Job Well Done

A Failed Administration

The Inauguration

Mayor Quandry

Memories of You is a love letter to the Persona series. On August 14, 2007 I opened up my Playstation 2, inserted my brand new copy of Persona 3, and within moments my life was changed. The opening sequence, featuring the characters placed against a highly stylized and abstract cityscape, captivated me to no end. It was the first time I had ever heard the music of Shoji Meguro. Dream-like guitars, jagged pianos, and impossibly groovy bass lines imprinted themselves on my DNA.

I was 13 years old at the time and I was beginning to realize that I wanted to spend the rest of my life making music. Like any 13 year old, I felt awkward, alone, and entirely unsure of myself. And yet, here on my old CRT, was a group of teenagers who were entirely unlike me: effortlessly cool, incredibly hip, and beyond powerful. I vicariously lived through them as they lived their lives soundtracked by the most amazing music I had ever heard. I ached to be them.

And now, on the day that I turn 28, I write this as a composer for video games who carried that dream with him for 15 years. The Persona series has been with me this whole time and I’m thankful for it. I want to spend the rest of my life making the kind of games and telling the kind of stories that small-town kids like myself can carry with them through life. It starts with this album. Thanks for listening.

-ZW Buckley
October 8, 2020


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Artwork by Lydia Wingate

Memories Of You

Quiz!

Sundown

Just Relax

Street Fight!

Under Your Skin

Spicy!

Fighting For My Friends

Downtown

Pavement

How Did It Ever Get This Far?

Busy Streets

ZW Buckley is a composer, producer, and educator based out of Seattle, Washington. Commissions open!

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