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Fossil Hunters (Original Game Soundtrack)

Robby Duguay

12 tracks • 32 minutes • June 26, 2018

Soundtrack for the game Fossil Hunters, by Reptoid Games, an action-adventure game about digging for fossils and building your own dinosaurs. Featuring live percussion, a 60-piece orchestra, and solo piano versions of the game themes.

"When I started working on the music for Fossil Hunters, I actually had a few influences in mind. I was thinking a lot about Super Mario World, Indiana Jones, Monster Hunter, and Saint Saens' Danse Macabre. Mario World has this fantastic main melody, and almost every song in the soundtrack uses it, but in different styles, times, keys, etc - and I wanted to take this approach here. The goal was to make the melody familiar and “always nearby” but without it getting annoying or repetitive.

To figure out what that main theme would sound like, I thought about the adventurous opening fanfares from Indiana Jones and Monster Hunter. I think those influences are pretty obvious when you hear the intro of the first track. I play brass instruments, so even before we got the Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra involved I was going to perform all the parts myself.

The last piece of the puzzle was to reinforce the percussive nature of the digging and sweeping of the gameplay, so I used a lot of percussion in the score. Danse Macabre has this fantastic “dancing bones” sound in the xylophone, and it just felt right to do something similar in a game about connecting fossils. I’ve always imagined stalactites and stalagmites to sound like a marimba, so when we’re playing music in the Mushroom Ruins, I am imagining that it’s the level itself that is making this music." - Robby Duguay

 

℗ 2018 Materia Collective / Materia Music Inc. under exclusive license from Robby Duguay and Trevor Alan Gomes
© 2018 Materia Collective / Materia Music Inc. under exclusive license from Robby Duguay and Trevor Alan Gomes

credits

Robby Duguay: Composer, Producer
Trevor Alan Gomes: Orchestrator, Piano
Doug Perry: Percussion
Budapest Symphonic Scoring Orchestra: Performing Artist
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Mason Lieberman: Additional sequencing

Tracklist

1
Fossil Hunters Main Theme
Robby Duguay: Composer, Producer
Trevor Alan Gomes: Orchestrator, Piano
Doug Perry: Percussion
Budapest Symphonic Scoring Orchestra: Performing Artist
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Mason Lieberman: Additional sequencing
1:40
2
The Lab
Robby Duguay: Composer, Producer
Trevor Alan Gomes: Orchestrator, Piano
Doug Perry: Percussion
Budapest Symphonic Scoring Orchestra: Performing Artist
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Mason Lieberman: Additional sequencing
3:16
3
Digsite
Robby Duguay: Composer, Producer
Trevor Alan Gomes: Orchestrator, Piano
Doug Perry: Percussion
Budapest Symphonic Scoring Orchestra: Performing Artist
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Mason Lieberman: Additional sequencing
3:06
4
Fungi
Robby Duguay: Composer, Producer
Trevor Alan Gomes: Orchestrator, Piano
Doug Perry: Percussion
Budapest Symphonic Scoring Orchestra: Performing Artist
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Mason Lieberman: Additional sequencing
3:33
5
Fire and Fauna
Robby Duguay: Composer, Producer
Trevor Alan Gomes: Orchestrator, Piano
Doug Perry: Percussion
Budapest Symphonic Scoring Orchestra: Performing Artist
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Mason Lieberman: Additional sequencing
2:04
6
Regolith
Robby Duguay: Composer, Producer
Trevor Alan Gomes: Orchestrator, Piano
Doug Perry: Percussion
Budapest Symphonic Scoring Orchestra: Performing Artist
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Mason Lieberman: Additional sequencing
3:02
7
Elevator (Intermission)
Robby Duguay: Composer, Producer
Trevor Alan Gomes: Orchestrator, Piano
Doug Perry: Percussion
Budapest Symphonic Scoring Orchestra: Performing Artist
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Mason Lieberman: Additional sequencing
1:08
8
Fossil Hunters Main Theme (Piano Version)
Trevor Alan Gomes: Arranger, Orchestrator, Piano
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Robby Duguay: Producer
2:02
9
Digsite (Piano Version)
Trevor Alan Gomes: Arranger, Orchestrator, Piano
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Robby Duguay: Producer
3:04
10
Fungi (Piano Version)
Trevor Alan Gomes: Arranger, Orchestrator, Piano
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Robby Duguay: Producer
3:33
11
Fire and Fauna (Piano Version)
Trevor Alan Gomes: Arranger, Orchestrator, Piano
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Robby Duguay: Producer
2:12
12
Regolith (Piano Version)
Trevor Alan Gomes: Arranger, Orchestrator, Piano
Andy Magoffin: Mastering Engineer
Robby Duguay: Producer
3:02
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Reviews

  • gonintendo.com
  • christcenteredgamer.com
  • gamasutra.com
  • playwithgregg.com
  • thegg.net
  • gamingaudionews.com
  • originalsoundversion.com
  • arata.lat
  • maroonersrock.com
  • vgmonline.net
  • higherplainmusic.com

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