Sourcebound

You only see what you hear. The screen is black, and the dark is playing music. Every footstep, every sonar pulse, every click of a hunter is a note, in tune and in time with the score, and each one sends out a wave that paints the walls in neon before the dark takes them back. Move quietly and you see almost nothing. Make noise and everything down here hears you. Music played by the darkThe soundtrack is composed live and follows your run: calm while you explore, tighter when they find you.

Every sound of the level is part of it. Your steps, your sonar, the shards, the hunters' calls are played by an orchestra whose instruments follow the music: strings and horns, saws and acid bass, organ and bells. Every two levels a new ambiance brings its own ensemble. Open the studio to listen to it, or compose an ambiance of your own. What hunts youBlind things that click in red. They wander, they turn toward every noise, they come to look, and when they are close they chase.

Deeper down you meet the sentinel that chants where it stands and howls to call the others, the tracker that follows your footprints, the prowler that makes no sound at all and only your sonar reveals, a guardian posted at the exit, and a colossus whose wave sweeps the whole level.…