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Soundtrack: Mini Metro — the chords a subway map plays back
The music of the transit puzzle Mini Metro is a generative system in which every line you draw reshapes the harmony itself. Composer Disasterpeace (Rich Vreeland) spent ninety percent of production coding rather than writing notes, and gave each city its own harmonic character. Doremi reads, from a composer's chair, a score that keeps sounding between congestion and breathing room.
Mini Metro (2013) — A Transit Map Born from a 48-Hour Game Jam
In April 2013, the Curry brothers of New Zealand built a weekend prototype called 'Mind the Gap' for Ludum Dare 26. This article traces how a minimalist transit puzzle, born from admitting what its makers couldn't do, became a Steam Early Access title in 2014 and shipped as Mini Metro in 2015.
