Comets and Craters: iPhone Game Soundtrack

Comets and Craters is a fun ‘tower defense’ game currently in the beta stage for the iPhone. The music was a lot of fun to write. The cartoon-y graphics fuses nicely with the serious orchestral tone and creates a fun atmosphere during gameplay.

I focused on writing the music in E Octatonic (second note of the scale being the F natural, then G, Ab etc). The main thematic figure is built from the same harmonic material as the rest of the piece. I’ve posted the figure below, if you want to hear how it sounds. You’re welcome to listen to the mp3 of the battle track. The theme will come in at 0:24 and repeat twice, once with the basses and cellos, and once horns and trombones doubling the basses and cellos. I hope you enjoy the music, and I’ll be sure to post a link to the app store once the game goes live within the next couple of weeks:

CnC Battle MP3

Please note that the samples are for evaluation purposes only.