We're two weeks from launch and I wanted to give our composer a chance to write a bit about his process in creating The Funnel's original score. I've also included some clips of the music so you can get a sneak-peek into what you can expect in the full game.

This is probably the last post you'll see from us until the time around The Funnel's launch, so thank you for being part of the journey as we release our studio's debut video game.

-Gabe

Wassup to all my Bronzemen, Jack from music department here to explain some of my part of The Funnel. Behind the scenes my job is to primarily create looping tracks that enforce the feelings and story points we want to highlight as you move through the branching narrative. Much of the heavy lifting of tonal shifts lies between the balance of very industrial rhythm sections drawing from sounds within the world to drive the beat and melodic strings that help guide the emotional beats.

In the late game as things begin to snowball for our lovely worker I began finding ways to add chromaticism to help create feelings of unease and distress to tense situations. The process of finding ways to keep this melodic was quite enjoyable, and further highlights the push/pull between industrial rhythm and melodic strings.

Hope you all enjoy when you play the game later this month :)

-Jack

Well, we're three weeks away from launch and The Funnel is now finished bug testing and has been sent out to content creators! As I mentioned in the last post, the demo has also been taken down due to it being out of date with the full game.

Aside from that, I've also started development on our studio's next game, but I'll be going back and forth to support The Funnel with patches after launch.

This week I wanted to write a bit more about the areas of the game that you might encounter outside your factory.

Under your factory lies a network of old buildings and tunnels that seem abandoned. If you can reach them, you'll have to break open doors and maybe even ride a railcar. But why was this part of the factory abandoned and where do the tunnels lead?

Impressing your factory manager has its benefits and might even lead you to getting promoted. Try and establish contact with the Funnel and even manage your own factory from a new office. But the managers seem to be on edge. What's gone wrong to worry them about the future of the factories?

There's one sure way to reach the surface, and that's your factory's smoke stack. Build a bomb, blast it open, and you'll certainly encounter other factories as you make the long climb upwards. But, what or who else lies along the way? Can escape be as simple as climbing this ladder to the top?

I hope you've enjoyed this little teaser of the areas outside your factory in The Funnel. Of course, you can always ignore all of this and just stay in your factory completing assemblies. The choice is yours.

Next week I'll have one final post from our composer about the music of The Funnel.

May the gears keep turning,

-Gabe