Steam has a year-end awards thing, and apparently they let developers "suggest" a category for fans to nominate their game in. I looked through all the categories, and there's nothing that says "Destruction" or "Physics" in it, so there's only one category where Instruments really belongs, and that's in the Best Soundtrack category. I feel no shame in saying this because I didn't work on the soundtrack.
Auvic is one of my favorite musicians of all-time, and I feel incredibly lucky to have worked with him on multiple games. I first contacted him in 2018 to see if he wanted to work on Speed Demons after being a fan of his songs for years. He said yes even though I had very little to show of the game, and his song helped the reveal trailer for Speed Demons become the most popular video I'd ever posted on Twitter (up until the videos for Instruments, see below). That game eventually made it's way onto Apple Arcade, where it was featured multiple times for it's Outstanding Audio (Apple's words). I can say for sure it had nothing to do with the sound effects. His soundtrack for Speed Demons was sensational, and when I started working on Instruments of Destruction I immediately asked if he'd be interested in doing a soundtrack for it as well.
The soundtrack for Instruments of Destruction is amazing and massive, so it got split up into two albums on Spotify. It's on other places too, but I use Spotify and that's how I found Auvic many years ago:
[My personal favorites are Our Horizon, Manic Designs, and Risen Apparatus.]
Auvic is also responsible for the Instruments of Destruction theme song (along with the vocal talents of Pipo Fernandez), which you can hear in the Release Date Trailer below:
And this is an old trailer with the old visual style, but it features another song of Auvic's (a remix of Moonlight Sonata):
He's got tons of other varied and amazing music if you're interested in hearing more on Spotify, Bandcamp, and all the other music sites. And we're already working together on yet another game project! So yeah, *please* nominate Instruments of Destruction for best soundtrack.
Thank you!
Luke