Crusader Kings III: Friends and Foes

  • Developer: Paradox Development Studio
  • Publisher: Paradox Interactive
  • Release: 2022
  • Role: Music Composition

Over one hundred unique new experiences of medieval larger-than-life drama wait to be discovered in the new event pack. From rival noble houses holding lifelong grudges to childhood bullies, summer crushes, and spoiling spouses with lavish gifts. Your ruler’s everyday existence has never been more fraught – or more exciting – than with Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes. (Steam)

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We composed three medieval ambient tracks with a total length of 12 minutes for this event pack from Crusader Kings III. One mood track was composed for the MENA region, one for Western Europe and the third one in a neutral medieval tone.
We recorded several live soloists with medieval and ethnic instruments (ney, recorders, vihuela, medieval fiddle, lute, oud and darbuka).

memory®

  • Developer: Nementic Games
  • Publisher: Ravensburger Verlag
  • Release: 2020
  • Role: Music Composition

The family game memory® has thrilled players of all ages worldwide for over 60 years. The Ravensburger memory® app offers many new and classic card sets. Variants with sound and images, for example, make you think outside the box and guarantee many hours of fun. (Google Play Store)

About the Project

For this mobile game we composed a Main Menu Theme and several ambient in-game tracks. The music is supposed to help the player relax and concentrate.

Get the Game on Google Play: memory®

Knights of Honor II: Sovereign

  • Developer: Black Sea Games
  • Publisher: THQ Nordic
  • Release: 2022
  • Role: Music Composition

Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory. (Steam)

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We wrote a soundtrack of over 80 minutes of music. The ambient music for this medieval strategy game is split into three different cultural regions (Christian, Pagan, Arabian) with each one consisting of several orchestral tracks and solo/ensemble tracks with historical/ethnic instruments. On top of that comes battle and tension music and some event tracks.
The soundtrack follows a unique music concept and compositional approach, but still references characteristical elements of the prequel’s soundtrack (2004). This is that we always try to heed when working on a sequel to a game.

This soundtrack was recorded with a 60 piece live orchestra (FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague) and more than 20 ethnic and historical instruments, performed by a group of acclaimed musicians.

Get the game on Steam: Knights of Honor II: Sovereign

Video: Dragonboats

Video: At The Bazaar

Video: Knight’s Charge

Video: The Armed Man

Victoria 3

  • Developer: Paradox Development Studio
  • Publisher: Paradox Interactive
  • Release: 2022
  • Role: Music Composition

Shape a grand tomorrow – Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history. (Steam)

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For this game, we composed and produced a big part of the ambient music, following the stylistic approach of the very popular soundtrack of the game’s predecessor Victoria 2.

For Victoria 3’s ambient music, we wrote some “soundtrack-classical” music that lets the player immerse in the world of the 19th century. To achieve that, we wrote string quartets and chamber music pieces, partially in the form of dances.

The character of our music is often hopeful and progressive and reflects the world that is in change through technological advancements and the industrial revolution and new opportunities for the people.
At the same time, our soundtrack features some music that sounds a bit more royal and noble, as the player is acting as the ruler of a nation and should feel like one.

We recorded all the music live with string quartet and chamber orchestra with the Sofia Session Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Get the game on Steam: Victoria 3
Listen to the soundtrack on our YouTube channel: Victoria 3 Original Soundtrack

The Guild 3

  • Developer: Golem Labs, PowWow Entertainment
  • Publisher: THQ Nordic
  • Release: 2022
  • Role: Music Composition

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times! (Steam)

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Having composed music for The Guild 2 Renaissance, it was a great honour to come back to work on the third installment from The Guild series again.

Our main goal was to develop a soundtrack that on the one hand captures the special character of the predecessors’ soundtracks and on the other hand write music that stands out from other medieval game soundtracks. We decided to go for a melody-focussed, orchestral soundtrack heavily enriched with authentic medieval musical elements, since the game is aimed to provide a realistic depiction of the life in the middle ages.
Thus, the ambient music features several authentic melodies from that era, like the Song of the Sybil or the old flagellants’ song Nu Tret Herzuo Der Buossen Welle.
The soundtrack also features tracks like lute solos that enhance the authentic historical feeling.

The music for the playable professions is split in three intensity levels and variations, which depends on the progress and success of the player’s character in the game.

The Main Theme of The Guild 3 was recorded live with the Sofia Session Orchestra from Sofia, Bulgaria.

Get the Game on Steam: The Guild 3
Get the Soundtrack on Steam: The Guild 3 Official Soundtrack

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Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind

  • Developer: Owned by Gravity, Ulisses Digital
  • Publisher: Ulisses Digital
  • Release: 2022
  • Role: Music and Sound Design

Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG. (Steam)

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It was a lot of fun creating the acoustic experience for this visual novel set in the world of The Dark Eye (Das Schwarze Auge).
Because it’s a visual novel RPG that doesn’t have many action-heavy animations, audio plays a big role in making the story and game setting come to life and immerse the player into the game. We created lots of ambient soundscapes and sound effects, and composed a variety of viking-themed ambient and action music tracks to support the pacing of the story and gameplay. The music features live-recorded instruments like the talharpa for special viking flavour.
For the antagonist, we created a unique, eerie sound effect that can dynamically blend into the music tracks as an extra musical layer when the characters experience the subtleinfluence of the antagonist or directly confront it. This sound can be used as foreshadowing effect for the story or as a direct acoustic feedback around the antagonist in the game.


Get the game on Steam: Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind
Get the soundtrack on Steam: Forgotten Fables: Wolves on the Westwind – Original Soundtrack

Crusader Kings III: Royal Court

  • Developer: Paradox Development Studio
  • Publisher: Paradox Interactive
  • Release: 2022
  • Role: Music Composition, Trailer Music Composition

Crusader Kings III continues the popular series made by Paradox Development Studio, featuring the widely acclaimed marriage of immersive grand strategy and deep, dramatic medieval roleplaying. (Steam)

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For “Royal Court”, the first major expansion to Crusader Kings III, we composed several event tracks and mood music that have a certain royal touch to them. The event tracks are used for the throne rooms of various cultural regions (Indian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, European) and are composed with the respective ethnic flavours.

The Main Theme for Royal Court brings back well-known main melodies from the Crusader Kings soundtracks. With the idea of the royal court assembling in the throne room for a king’s audience, the track starts with a traditional renaissance-style ensemble and then switches to full orchestra. The track constantly builds up in intensity towards a climactic fanfare, representing the king entering the room.

We recorded the whole soundtrack live with a full symphony orchestra (FILMharmonic Orchestra, Prague, Czech Republic) and with a multitude of skilled solo instrumentalists that add an appropriate ethnic and authentic medieval flavour to the soundtrack.

The special instruments that we composed for and recorded are Ney, Shawm, Crumhorn, Soprano Recorder, Bansuri, Lute, Renaissance Guitar Ensemble, Ronroco and Viola da Gamba.

Get the game on Steam: Crusader Kings III: Royal Court

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Foundation

  • Developer: Polymorph Games
  • Publisher: Polymorph Games
  • Release: Early Access
  • Role: Music Composition

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management. (Steam)

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The gameplay of Foundation is generally pretty relaxing and the visual style rather bright and positive. This is reflected in our soundtrack, which keeps a steady flow and a positive vibe.

The soundtrack is completely non-orchestral, which is a key feature that makes it stand out from most other soundtracks in the (medieval) city-building genre. Instead, we feature several medieval instruments. The musical style itself can be defined as a mixture of folk, pop and authentic medieval elements.

The main ambient soundtrack is organised in three levels with an individual playlist for each level, and musically follows the expansion of the settlement. While the music is very sparse in the beginning and is not much more than some musical fragments, it becomes more consistent and flowing and evolves to bigger instrumentation as the village grows and becomes more busy and populated.

Get the game on Steam: Foundation
Get the soundtrack on Steam: Foundation Original Soundtrack

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Spacebase Startopia

  • Developer: Realmforge Studios
  • Publisher: Kalypso Media
  • Release: 2021
  • Role: Music Composition

Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor. (Steam)

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We made the whole soundtrack completely synthesizer based, there are no organic instruments featured in the music, which seems logical for an outerworldly space station filled with aliens that don’t have direct knowledge to human music. This makes the soundtrack stand out from the crowd of other space soundtracks, which often feature a hybrid synth-orchestral sound,referencing popular movies and video games. We wanted to break out from this.

The main part of the soundtrack is ambient music for the three different decks of the spacebase: engineering deck, fun deck and bio deck.
The engineering deck features pulsating and energetic synth tracks emphasizing the constant work of aliens and machines that is done here to keep the space station running, you might find some reminiscences of Kraftwerk music in there.
On the contrary, the bio deck, where plants and ressources grow, sounds very relaxing and features mainly spheric sounds.
For the fun deck, we created music that sounds how we thought that aliens would imagine human disco and dance music, with elements of funk, techno or EDM.

Get the game on Steam: Spacebase Startopia
Get the soundtrack on Steam: Spacebase Startopia Original Soundtrack