And features some very queer friendly indie music!
Games Gig is the official Thursday night Freeplay Festival 2021 event, described by its organisers as “a music focused afterparty featuring a line-up of indie, pop, and electronic game composers performing their music from Melbourne indie games.”
Video World‘s Monster Mansion (aka Jacob Leaney) will headline the event alongside Maize Wallin, a composer who has worked on titles like the PS5 console exclusive
Godfall and indie titles such as
Receiver 2 and
Wayward Strand. Leaney and Wallin have also organised the event, intending it as a showcase for electronic and pop music, two genres that often don’t “get a chance to be seen and heard live, performed by the people that wrote it,” as Leaney explained to Stevivor.
Cable Ties foray into gaming
By Cat Woods
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“And if I can t hope, nothing s ever gonna change.” So go the lyrics to Melbourne band Cable Ties’ song
Hope, which is the soundtrack to a new independent game. In April, the band were invited to collaborate with game designer Cecile Richard and producer Maize Wallin on crafting the soundtrack to Richard s game,
Hope. The game, free online, is designed to challenge feelings of hopelessness and confront issues of anxiety and self-criticism.
Jenny McKechnie (left), Shauna Boyle and Nick Brown.
The collaboration was the Indie Bands x Indie Developers pilot project of the Victorian Music Development Office, which partners indie musicians with indie video game creators. The VMDO has existed for just over two years, delivered by Music Victoria, specifically for the music industry. Katie Stewart, general manager of VMDO, was familiar with both Cable Ties and Richard’s work and saw a synergy between t