This has been quite a year for PotF, hasn't it? I won't bore you with a lengthy reflection of what happened this year partly because it'd mostly be a self-indulgent ramble that I'm sure you don't want to listen to. Besides, I want to get right into the most exciting part of this blog: You can finally list to some of Prayer of the Faithless' original soundtrack!

This has been a long time coming, but I'd like finally officially welcome Eric Ramos to the PotF team! He'll be composing music for the game, and has been great to work with. He's done professional work in the past and is learning from pros in the video game industry, so the man knows his stuff!

We started off with settling on themes for the party members. Being a highly character-driven game, themes for the cast were a golden opportunity to reflect their personalities musically in addition visuals and dialogue. Take a moment to listen to the themes of Aeyr, Mia, and Amalie:





I'm really, really excited at how well these themes reflect their personalities. I love placing emphasis on characters in games, and having themes for each party member will accent their personalities and leave a much stronger impact on players than they would otherwise. I can't wait to release the next demo where all of these will be in the game!

Go follow Eric on Twitter and check out his Soundcloud for some examples of his past work.

As for general progress, Mia 1 is about 60% done. The levels have been laid out, the cutscenes have been written and just need editing, and the enemies have been designed. There's still a lot left to do, but I'm expecting to be finished with Mia 1 sometime this month. Then, it's one last round of polish for the whole game, then the next demo will be released! I don't have a date on when that will be, unfortunately, as there are a few things I want to add, but I'll let you all know when a date has been settled on!

Thanks for sticking with the game for so long! Looking forward to continue working on it in the coming year!