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Soundtrack: Gunpoint — silence by default, and the circuitry sings only while you plan
The three composers Tom Francis picked through an open call — Ryan Ike, John Robert Matz, and Francisco Cerda — gave Gunpoint a sound drifting between jazz noir and electronics. Like the stealth puzzle it scores, it stays silent most of the time. But the instant you enter Crosslink mode to rewire the circuitry, the same cue slides into an electronic variation. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart this design that switches thought and action through sound, in a form you can carry back to your own writing.
Soundtrack: Contrast — live jazz lit inside a city solved by shadows
Move a light, reshape the shadow on the wall, and slip into it as a 2D silhouette — Contrast's puzzles are quiet and ask you to observe. Yet this 1920s-styled city glows with live jazz: songs the cabaret singer Kat actually performs inside the story. Smoky ballads written by Nicolas Marquis and sung by Laura Ellis. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart a design where the music becomes a character.
