The second and third pieces of music I wrote for Calico actually don't appear in the game.
A lot of my soundtracks start with a "statement piece" - something that's representative of the major themes and moods of the game and is in a genre similar to a good bit of, if not necessarily all of, the rest of the soundtrack.
It'll often be a pretty significant piece of music - on The Stars Between Us, it was the game's main theme. On some of the professional game-jam work I've done, it's been the main (or only) gameplay theme.
For Calico, it was the game's title theme, "Cats and Magical Girls" which became the basis of the background music for the Heart Village - it was eventually reinterpreted as the song that appears when you're in the cafe, "A Cat is a Cat"
This version of the theme, though, was the original theme for the Heart Village. It's the second piece of music I wrote for the title and the first remix of that main theme (the version that appears in the game is technically the third!)
This version was approved for the game when it was finished, but after I'd written through the rest of the soundtrack, we thought it might be interesting to re-approach it and see how the theme would come out with my newfound experience - plus, it also needed to be reworked to properly add lyrics.
So we ended up rewriting it! Even though we didn't end up shipping this version I still think it was an important part of the journey that got us where we ended up. (plus it makes a nice little behind the scenes journey)
as always, find the Heart Village demo streaming on Spotify + everywhere
stay musical, people
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