Space Bears Video Game Music

One of my life goals is to write video game music. Here’s my idea for a video game. It’s called Space Bears.

It’s the year 3213. On a planet much like earth, except that it’s dominant species is bears and not humans, a civilization of bears finds itself overcome by crime, corruption, and other social contagions. But it wasn’t always like this.

Twenty years ago, the Space Bears lived peacefully on their planet, in a state of Hybernation (an atmospheric anomaly unique to the Space Bears planet in which a dense stratosphere surrounds the planet that is impenetrable by foreign ship or rock). However, this period of peaceful Hybernation ended when the corrupt but doltish Minister Bear brokered a deal with several neighboring nations, allowing them access to the planets abundant resources.

This is where we meet the Space Bears adversaries. The most innocuous is the Moon Coons, who are scavengers that live in slums, most of whom entered the planet by hiding in spaceship cargo. The next is the Robo Crocs, who have not made the Space Bears planet their own, but periodically stop by for menace and marauding. The next is the Cyber Pigs, the capitalists who have taken to draining the Space Bears planet of its natural resources. Their presence is felt by the many large pump jacks that clutter the once idyllic countryside. Finally, and most importantly, we have the Alpha Sharks. The Alpha Sharks originally negotiated with Minister Bear and convinced him to end Hybernation. The Alpha Sharks are imperialists and they have several military bases on the Space Bears beloved soil.

The objective of the game is obvious: the Space Bears must overthrow the greedy Minister Bear, rid their planet of it’s parasitic guests, and reinitiate Hybernation.

I wrote sweet space beats and epic synthphonies for it, so c’mon, we’re halfway there! Let’s do this!

I dedicate this album to one of my heros, Nobuo Uematsu.

Download the album here.

Or listen to each individual songs below:

1. The Beginning

2. Adventure Motif

3. Moon Coons Motif: Street Life, Or, Hot Gravel, Cold Stares, Dirty Games, and Rotting Marrow.

4. Uncharted Terrain

5. Robo Crocs Motif: It Takes A Pillage To Raze A Village.

6. Cyber Pigs Motif: Make Bank, Get Buck.

7. Love Motif: This Is What Love Felt Like In The 80’s.

8. Alpha Sharks Motif

9. Boss Level

10. Battle

11. Pyrrhic Victory