Carbon Based Lifeforms
Today, we're proud to announce a collaboration with Carbon Based Lifeforms! They are one of the world's most popular ambient electronica artists, and just announced a new album Derelicts this week. Now, in addition to the regular soundtrack of a more traditional retro arcade feel, you'll be able to enter Carbon Mode, featuring a large number of CBL tracks and a more atmospheric, galaxy like environment.
Many programmers we know, including ourselves, use CBL or other similar bands to 'get into the flow' when coding. It's great for concentrating on complex tasks, and we ended up listening to it while playtesting the game just because it was already coming out of our speakers. We reached out and this is the result. Combat in Spartaga can reach a point where it helps to relax and just read the flow instead of staring at individual bullets coming at your starfighter. CBL's music can be great for that =).
This is what CBL had to say-
"We grew up in the 8-bit era with arcade games, Commodore and Nintendo and being long time Scfi-fi fans we couldn't say "GO!" fast enough when House of How approached us about including our music in their upcoming game "Spartaga". We're really happy that the team wanted our music, and on top of that we get our very own Carbon mode button!"