As of today, the brilliant original soundtrack to JETT: Given Time is now available! A great day!

Here's scntfc's linktree[linktr.ee].

To directly support composer scntfc, connect yourself to the scntfc Bandcamp[scntfc.bandcamp.com].

On PC storefronts and here on Steam, the new songs have been bundled together with the revamped JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time OST.

You can find just the Given Time songs as a standalone release on Apple, Spotify and elsewhere[linktr.ee].

scntfc[cargocollective.com] aka C. Andrew Rohrmann has worked as a composer and sound designer on over a decade’s worth of critically acclaimed and award winning games: Night School Studio’s Oxenfree and the upcoming Oxenfree ll: Lost Signals, Broken Rules’ Old Man’s Journey and Gibbon: Beyond The Trees, VVR and VVR 2 for Tender Claws, and even the legendary Moon Grotto 7"[scntfc.bandcamp.com] that was somehow connected to Superbrothers original Sword & Sworcery EP.

This new Given Time soundtrack joins the scntfc score to The Far Shore, creating a seamless, sumptuous, and orchestral synth landscape, suitable not only for carving out a future for a people haunted by oblivion, buuuut also for diving into with a set of nice speakers or headphones, and just enjoying some beauty.

Some songs function as reprises, recalling the events of The Far Shore (and its own scntfc OST[scntfc.bandcamp.com]), from Mei's vantage point three years later, finding new angles on those memories. Other songs are bold and new, like the pulse-quickening Aloft, the sweeping and sedate Given Time, the dazzling Synthesis, and the strange mix of moods and flavors that accompany Given Time's concluding scenes.

"Feels good to be sending this monumental project off in style." says Andy, aka C Andrew Rohrmann, aka composer scntfc "Some of these songs date back nearly ten years to the start of our work on JETT, and even before, but they've found their ideal forms here. It has been a rare pleasure to get to build this universe out to completion."

"Working with scntfc's tracks on this game was a treat" says Given Time narrative contributor Dan Berry. "These tracks gave everything they came into contact with an instantly amplified sense of atmosphere, whether we needed something to indicate solemn contemplation, joyous exuberance, creeping dread or anything in-between. These songs are the primary colours that paint the JETT universe."

"I love how this album came together, it has a good shape to it." says JETT art director Craig D. Adams. "I have a feeling I'll be coming back to this album a lot over the years, it bottles up a special project and a lot of great memories of our time carving out these science fiction spaces and moods."

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Start of album thread on @jettxyz. Note as of Feb 23, this thread is a bit unruly.



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JETT: Given Time OST - a smattering of song-by-song liner notes are accumulating below


🎶 01 ᴀʀɪꜱᴇ

A: A subtle return to our first glimpse of The Far Shore. Three years later Mei’s eyes open and recall that moment.

C: Right, this is a brief echo of the song that played as Mei and Isao deployed, way back in I. Deploy. So, this is reminder of the start of her prior adventure, and the mood of the song evokes Mei's duty as a scout, and ideas related to Jao and The Mother Structure. This song should sit well with the song Into Torpor, at the tail end of The Far Shore's OST.


🎶 02 ᴀʟᴏꜰᴛ

A: An expression of the joy of jett-piloting, full of intertwined flute and synth arpeggios.

C: This song ended up on the cutting room floor for The Far Shore, just couldn't fit it in, too peppy for a slightly dour campaign. Glad it found its place here, accompanying the player's rush of feeling as they go aloft for the first time in a while, kicking off Given Time's free-roaming campaign with some fresh energy.


🎶03 ᴡʜɪꜱᴘᴇʀꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡʏʟᴅ

A:

C: This is music that accompanies our first glimpses into the mysteries lurking inside Tor, and the song should linger in player's minds. There are some discordant moods that get kicked up in here that get my goosebumps going.


🎶04 ᴀᴄᴏʟʏᴛᴇ

A: A dive into the distant history of our adventurers. Long before landing on The Far Shore their history is filled with mythic adventures, relayed to their younger generations via music.

C: Since earliest days there was some intent for this science fiction universe to have a distinct, specific-feeling past and culture that lives in the hearts and minds of the jett scouts, hence Tsosi and the tsagas, and other such gestures to an intriguing world that exists out-of-frame and over 1000 years ago. The musical language that arose feels related to Tchaikovsky and Imperial Russia of the late 1800s, a flavor that we hear late in this album in The Signal Bureau, as well as on Jhorgon Kolos from The Far Shore. This song has a great tilt and a great build, and it sounds just right echoing around the vaulted corridors of Tsosi's tomb and reading room.


🎶 05 ʙʀɪɴᴇ ᴡɪꜱᴘ ʀᴏᴇ

A:

C: Once players are let loose and are free-roaming around, it's time for music to take a backseat and allow weather, sfx and other atmospheric sounds to come in. What incidental music the player does encounter in Given Time's open world tends to be on the light side, sometimes with a bit of encouraging jett scout pep.



🎶06 ɢɪᴠᴇɴ ᴛɪᴍᴇ

A: Given Time reaches back to the very beginnings of JETT. Before Given Time and even before The Far Shore, a long outdated version of this song was in a weekend prototype dating back to May 2011.

C: This is the song that got me to commit to trying to line Andy up as a composer for the project that became JETT. I had encountered Andy's work during sworcery's production, we had a fair bit of common ground, and sworcery's moon grotto music and number station at the end of sworcery came to pass. In Andy's back catalog there were songs that suggested a vast, intricate and interesting science fiction universe. This song in particular is as broad and as deep as it gets. In our May 2011 prototype, this song played over a twilight scenario, helming a proto-jett along a coastline under starry skies. This song, that mood and that experience became a lodestar for Patrick and I, design-wise. How could we build a project that could include that song, to earn it. In the end, we weren't able to fit this experience into The Far Shore's dense and heavily-plotted narrative, but all's well that ends well, because this song, with this name, has found its ideal place as the sedate centerpiece to Given Time's campaign. Players encounter this song as they wade into Given Time's broad mid-section, zipping around at twilight, chasing after brine wisps while gas giant Ghoke rises in the sky above. Love it.


🎶07 SCOUT REGATTAS

A:

C: Love this song. A good little vibe to be doing jett scout things, sparking wisps and so on.


🎶08 ENDURE

A:

C: Nice purposeful little song to keep us trucking.


🎶09 GIVEN BRINE

A:

C: Sometimes a song kicks in and it just takes you somewhere else. This for me is one of those songs. I love how it'll just bubble up sometimes while you're free-roaming, stirring up the player and Mei's memories of past people and places, and opening their eyes to the wonder around them.


🎶10 THE SIGNAL BUREAU

A:

C: Ahhh, this song rules. Another song we had in place early on, a great bed for early 'historical footage' animatics. The song just kind of showed up one day, another scntfc miracle, and it related to ideas I had been developing. I had some intent to define this people's industrial and scientific revolutions, as part of defining its particular cultural programming. This song's name relates to an in-universe scientific institution tasked with detecting and monitoring the hymnwave over hundreds of years. The Signal Bureau's 70s brutalist buildings dot the steppes of The 13 Nations, and the institution is a forerunner of The Space Program who saw to the centuries-long construction of The Mother Structure, a tough and costly project that required a sustained state propaganda effort.

🎶11 PRISMATIC PHOSPHORESCENCE

A:

C: No better song than this to park on gelid Khovd gaze at Tor while Ghoke rises.


🎶12 SYNTHESIS

A:

C: This song goes back a long ways. We had this Flor Kolos scenario and entity in place early on, with Andy's music and sfx helping us define the synth-soaked moods of some of this alien planet's cosmic spaces. It's likely we talked about the vibe of Skytown from Metroid Prime 3, a mood that I love.


🎶13 SUMMIT

A:

C: This is something of a reprise of a song we called Persevere from The Far Shore, that plays towards the end of that campaign as the scout unit is pushed to its limits on Khovd and has to fight back from the brink, a scenario that rhymes with this one. This version has a bit of a Tor-twist, and to me it's the exact right energy to propel us towards and up Tor, through waves of griefers, alongside a Jones-like presence.


🎶14 CRYPT TO CRADLE

A:

C: It some shaping to get all this to feel right and be legible, to give players/listeners the right series of moods to take us from Tor's summit to Mei's final moment, deep inside. I love how things landed here.


🎶15 THE FUTURE

A:

C: This song goes way back to early days, as Andy and I talked about how traditional symphonic instruments -- trumpets, flutes -- might related to the vibe of our noble, hopeful jett scouts. This is another funtamental song that somehow didn't find a place in The Far Shore, we just didn't end up with a scene that could accommodate such a breathlessly optimistic and sincere-sounding song. I love that we got this in as JETT's capstone, laid on a vision of a future for this haunted people. Feels extra tidy to use the name The Future, which was JETT's name from earliest days. Now, here we are, and our post-JETT future beckons.

Join us Thursday, February 23rd, from 8:30pm to 10:30pm ET, for the final instalment in our Given Time Debut Playthrough. Witness Mei's trajectory as the last wisps are gathered and her interstellar trip conclusively resolves.

Our jett scouts on this ultimate mission will be two of Given Time's core dev team: Richard Flanagan, who you may know from the hit game FRACT OSC, and design/dev/QA powerhouse Zack Wheeler at the jett's helm.

It's likely that Patrick, Dan and Craig will make an appearance, coming along for the ride from the Flor Kolos and up Tor. to go From Crypt To Cradle.

Join us as we close out the JETT: Given Time campaign, traversing the final narrative beats! Stop by and give us a hearty 'ahoy' in the chat, if you dare. Note: If the stream chat sputters, you can message us on Twitter at @jettxyz.


In this Feb 23 instalment of our Given Time Jubilee of livestreams, we'll be solving the most advanced brine wisp puzzles, and proceeding beyond, unravelling some of the mystery that lies at the heart of Tor, all while chatting about the development process behind this unique game, and answering questions from the chat. **Spoiler note:** The final section of Given Time that we'll be playing on Feb 23 has a hefty risk of story spoilers, but also: it's okay to intersect with JETT's unorthodox science fiction story from an odd angle.

Where is the stream happening, you ask? We'll be streaming right here atop JETT's Steam page.

We hope you're digging JETT so far! If you find yourself becoming a bit of JETT-head, note that we'd love a warm Steam review and/or a good word somewhere on the internet, wherever prospective JETT-heads may be.

Join us Thursday, February 16th, from 8:30pm to 10:30pm ET, for the next instalment in our Given Time Debut Playthrough. Our jett pilots this outing will be two of Given Time's core dev team: Richard Flanagan, who you may know from the hit game FRACT OSC, and design/dev/QA powerhouse Zack Wheeler. If conditions are right, there'll be another cameo from JETT co-creator Patrick McAllister[pinescentedsoftware.com], who worked closely with Zack and Richard on the intricacies of design in JETT: Given Time.

Come along and spark some wisps, shoot the breeze, and see what JETT: Given Time has on offer as the playthrough moves into the deeper waters of the broad mid-section of the campaign.


Surface any good words or Qs in the stream chat, or on Twitter at @jettxyz.

In this Feb 16 instalment of our Given Time Jubilee of livestreams, Richard and Zack will be resuming their campaign in the latter half of the free-roaming mid-section of Given Time, solving the more advanced brine wisp puzzles, while chatting about the development process behind this unique game, and answering questions from the chat.

Where is the stream happening, you ask? We'll be streaming right here atop JETT's Steam page.

It should be a fun laidback time! A few other JETT Squad folks might be hanging around, online and in chat. Perhaps we'll see you there as well?

**Mild spoiler note:** The section of Given Time we'll be playing on Feb 16 has a low to medium risk of story spoilers. It'll give a strong sense of what JETT gameplay looks like in its more intense energy levels, and you'll get a clear look at how Given Time's ecosystem puzzles work. Still, you may be safe enough to watch the stream and listen in, no matter what level of JETT-head you may be be. Even if you haven't cracked into The Far Shore yet, it's a beautiful game, if we do say so. Just drop off before you see too much, haha.


There may also be some high-fiving on stream, as we've recently gotten word that JETT has earned Valve's Great On Deck stamp of approval!

In any case, we hope you're digging JETT so far! If you find yourself becoming a bit of JETT-head, I'll note that we'd love a warm Steam review and/or a good word somewhere on the internet, wherever prospective JETT-heads may be.

Note: We'll be wrapping up the Given Time Launch Month Jubilee with another livestream next Thursday February 23rd, kicking off at 8:30pm ET.

Howdy, folks!

• We're now officially verified as Great On Deck.

Patrick's hard work in optimizing JETT for the Deck hardware has really paid off.

Not only does the game play really well on the Deck, but it's a great platform to experience The Far Shore and especially, the chill, player-directed nature of the Given Time expansion campaign.

So: grab a pair of headphones and curl up somewhere cozy with your Steam Deck and JETT.

Hope you dig JETT on Deck and if you do, and if you're so moved, don't hesitate to spread the word.

Oh, and if you haven't left a review yet, please do so, as it really helps JETT find its way to new folks. Thanks in advance!

* Fix for potentially getting locked into cockpit early in Given Time.
* Slightly better mouse interaction in pause menu.
* [PS5] Fix for UI sometimes not showing when resuming activities.
* Various smaller fixes.

On Thursday February 9th from 830pm to 1030pm ET, join Given Time design contributor and stream co-pilot Richard Flanagan aka @phosfiend, with Given Time design/dev/QA powerhouse Zack Wheeler aka @tankooni at the jett's helm for the next instalment in our Given Time Debut Playthrough.

JETT co-creator Patrick McAllister from Pine Scented Software will stop by tonight's livestream, too. Patrick handled the bulk of the technical and engineering aspects of JETT, and worked closely with Zack and Richard on the intricacies of design in JETT: Given Time.

Come along and spark some wisps, shoot the breeze, and see what JETT: Given Time has on offer. Surface any good words or Qs in the stream chat, or on (what's left of) Twitter as a reply to @jettxyz.

Oh, and you've arisen and are playing Given Time, take note: on this February 9th livestream, Richard and Zack will be starting in broad free-roaming mid-section of Given Time, poking at puzzles, getting in and out of JETT dev rabbit hole conversations. This section is narratively quite sparse, so there's a low risk of spoilers. You're probably safe to watch the stream and listen in, no matter what level of JETT-head you may be be, even if you haven't cracked into The Far Shore.
We'll be streaming right here atop JETT's Steam page. It should be a fun laidback time!
A few other JETT Squad folks will be around, online on and off stream.

Subsequent Given Time streams are scheduled for Thursday February 16, with the end of this limited series slated for Thursday February 23rd, all kicking off 8:30pm ET. They'll wind up on the Superbrothers HQ YouTube eventually, and when they do there'll be a link here.

JETT's out!

Ahhh.... that feels *so* great to say.

With last week's debut of JETT on Steam and with the release of Given Time, we're feeling well satisfied. Our 1000 year interstellar dev trip has run its course, and now a distinct and newly-complete videogame vision is widely available, forevermore.

To those of you who have embarked, deployed, adapted, persevered and/or arisen with us - thanks so much.

This is an odd, ambitious, multi-faceted project. It has been a labor of love for all involved, and so it's very heartening to hear from those of you for whom this thing resonates. It's a thrill to think that people will be discovering JETT for years to come, now that it's out in the wyld. It's our fond hope that it might someday earn cult classic status.

On that topic, hey: if you're enjoying your time in the world of JETT, and if you are so moved, please do lend us hand with a positive Steam review and/or leave a good word someplace, and thanks if you do.

As of this writing we're a week out from January 31st, so here's a round-up of some post-launch news and press, including JETT folks on the Noclip podcast, some positive Given Time coverage on Rock Paper Shotgun and an 8/10 review in Edge Magazine, as well as a recent article featuring Looking Glass alum and JETT Squad 1.0 lynchpin Randy Smith, plus some details about JETT Squad Thursday evening livestreams in February, and QA housekeeping including an update on the turbulence some of you may have experienced this weekend, and even a SHODAN cameo (!).

Phew, that's quite the bundle!

So, ready to stumble reverently onwards?



JETT DEV X NOCLIP PODCAST

We've been chatting with Noclip lately, and a recent JETT dev conversation has been published as a podcast.

From @noclip on Twitter:

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BONUS PODCAST - We talk to the developers of JETT about their decade long journey creating the original Far Shore campaign, and last week's release of Given Time."

If you like game design talk, this is for you!

🔊 Listen: https://noclippodcast.libsyn.com/the-decade-long-creative-development-of-jett

📺 WATCH: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5U4YhmsRezA
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It was a treat to get together and chat with Danny about JETT's unusual dev path, and its satisfying completion with Given Time's release.

About Noclip: Noclip does a weekly podcast with dev chat bonus episodes, but they're primarily a videogame documentary outfit, headed up the ever amiable Danny O'Dwyer. You can find well-crafted and well-informed documentaries on everything from Thief and System Shock, to all things Half Life, with excursions into the smaller-team space with docs about System Era's Astroneer and Supergiant's Hades. Anyways, Noclip's YouTube channel is excellent and worth exploring.





ROCK PAPER SHOTGUN x JETT: GIVEN TIME

Some good words about Given Time from this direction, worth a read!

"A new expansion sees Jett become the soaring sci-fi open world it was meant to be.
Given Time has made The Far Shore blossom beautifully into its final form."

Thanks to Jeremy Peel and Rock Paper Shotgun for shedding some light on JETT and Given Time!




ROCK PAPER SHOTGUN x RANDY SMITH - A JETT SQUAD ALL-STAR

Also on Rock Paper Shotgun, and also from Jeremy Peel, comes this recent profile of Randy Smith.

Thief developer Randy Smith says "immersion is totally incompatible with ego"

Jeremy's article covers Randy's career from Thief, back in the Looking Glass days, with some discussion about immersive sims, and the article includes a mention of Tiger Style's Waking Mars, and Randy's contributions to JETT.

Randy came into JETT's orbit initially as a design contributor from mid-2017, helping us here and there, before plugging in full-time in mid-2019, bringing a wealth of production experience and design chops, and becoming a JETT Squad lynchpin through some fairly complex stages of production, up until The Far Shore deployed in late 2021.

I think Randy's design contributions to the project really come through in Given Time, where ecosystem-puzzling and free-roaming gameplay come into focus, and where players are given time to soak in a world that reveals JETT's immersive sim aspirations.

As The Far Shore deployed, Randy passed the torch design-wise to his understudy, dev powerhouse Zack Wheeler, whose name you will encounter again at bottom of this post.

^ Randy Smith is @wavesallday_ on Twitter, and he's presently cooking up a fresh new videogame.


It's thanks to Randy that fellow Looking Glass alum Terri Brosius climbed aboard JETT Squad in 2020, plugging into Priscilla Snow[www.ghoulnoise.com]'s work on JETT's choral and spoken language (detailed in a recent squad profile), and adding capacity to the dialogue-shaping and story-editing efforts, alongside myself, Randy and Nick Suttner[nicksuttner.com].

Terri, who voiced SHODAN in the System Shock series, also voices Misha in JETT. Misha, as some of you may know, is the level-headed and determined commander of Mei and Isao's scout unit. She is tasked by Space Program Overseer Jao to direct the investigation of Tor's solemn cone -- the source of the hymnwave -- from her perch on the command deck of Ground Control, atop Scout's Prospect.






JETT: GIVEN TIME IS AN EDGE 8/10

It was a delight to see JETT: Given Time get a warm welcome from Edge magazine[www.gamesradar.com]'s Chris Schilling in the March 2023 issue's 8/10 review.

“...this generous and welcoming expansion is deserving of any time given over to it."

The snippets above go a long way towards describing the new campaign. For the full review, and a whole lot more besides, with great coverage on the world of videogames, all beautifully laid out, seek out Edge magazine[www.gamesradar.com] in print and digitally.

Fun fact: Both JETT: The Far Shore's 2021 release and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP's 2012 PC release scored 8/10 with Edge magazine. That's a pretty decent run, particularly given how unorthodox these designs have been. Feels pretty good!


QA HOUSEKEEPING + WEEKEND TURBULENCE

Some intrepid jett scouts may have experienced turbulence over the weekend, as we pushed out some hotfixes. Apologies for that. Regrettable.

Patrick at Pine Scented[pinescentedsoftware.com] has been on the case, addressing a handful of the more prominent issues in a recent build, and he and Richard Flanagan[www.richardeflanagan.com] are on duty, responding to tickets, finding remaining wrinkles, ironing them out, and surfacing patch notes.

We'd like to pass along a big thank you to all jett scouts and community members who have been helping us along in the discussion threads, you've been great.



SPARK WISPS WITH JETT DEVS THIS THURSDAY

On January 31st we kicked off JETT's jubilee, getting together for a launch livestream with a range of JETT Squad folks playing The Far Shore and cracking into Given Time. This is now archived here.

As JETT's February 2023 'Jubilee!' enters its second week, there's more in store.

On Thursday February 9th from 830pm to 1030pm ET, join Given Time design contributor Richard Flanagan aka @phosfiend and Given Time design/dev/QA powerhouse Zack Wheeler aka @tankooni for the next instalment in their Given Time Debut Playthrough.

Subsequent Given Time streams are scheduled for Thursday February 16 and Thursday February 23rd, kicking off 8:30pm ET.

Come along and spark some wisps, shoot the breeze, see what JETT: Given Time has on offer, and surface any Qs in the chat.

Oh, and you're playing along, take note: on February 9th they'll be starting in the free-roaming mid-section of Given Time, poking at puzzles, getting in and out of JETT dev rabbit holes. There's a (very) low risk of narrative spoilers, so not to worry, you can join in even if you haven't cracked into The Far Shore.

They'll be streaming right here on JETT's Steam page. It should be a fun laidback time. A few other JETT Squad folks will be around, and may stop by the stream.

Until then - stay sharp, scouts, and go gather them wisps!

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* Resolved issue with occasional missing ghokebloom.
* Resolved issue with environmental objects occasionally being missing.
* Tweaked scene LODs a bit to avoid some extreme pop-in.

Temporary rollback to before serious LOD issues were introduced.