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Soundtrack: Thomas Was Alone — one melody that changes clothes every time a rectangle joins
The score for Thomas Was Alone dresses a single short melody in new clothes, track after track. Composed by David Housden, the sound shifts texture each time a new rectangle joins the cast. Cross-checking his own interview and critical reviews, black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart.
Soundtrack: Monument Valley — An accompaniment, not a guide
The music Stafford Bawler, Obfusc and Grigori wrote for ustwo games' optical-illusion puzzle Monument Valley never pushes to the front with melody. What accompanies the short journey of rotating isometric monuments into paths is soft-edged ambient and a single chord that rings each time you turn a column. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart through one lens: how does music that stays pure accompaniment become something you can touch?
Inside Asher Vollmer's Philosophy — loading years of depth into a single swipe
A study of Asher Vollmer, creator of Threes!, built only from his own words: the longevity design that stretches 'simple to learn, impossible to master' across years, his obsession with keeping placeholder art pretty, the cloning episode where he blamed himself for not going free and then recovered his pride, and the efficiency-versus-rest dilemma. It closes with Kizuki's reading.
