This underlying fear made MOON's songs perfect for Hotline Miami . Created primarily on Ableton by playing with presets and sticking loops together, his work focuses on dissonant melodic intervals and heavy bass that raises the player's heart rate, a key component of bandher. A song like "Hydrogen" helps players focus by increasing fear and a sense of revenge. On hard levels, a simple repetition of techno will help you forget about the nerve-wracking feeling of hitting someone in the head with a baseball bat or shooting a guard dog before they attack you. The Hotline Miami soundtrack isn't just cool; It's a graceful aesthetic mindset that intentionally helps gamers cope with the challenges around them.
"Instead of engaging you in cognitive activity, techno is actually trying to - as one neurobiologist put it - free you from the 'rules of reality' and let your mind go somewhere else, without fear of moving on, next door," says Professor Berkley. and music psychologist Dr. Suzanne Rogers. The musical effect superimposed on the game itself becomes a delicate balance between repetition, cross-modal perception and synthesizers as a unique neural reward for the imagination, encouraging players to relax in an engaging gameplay. "There is no cognitive effort in electronic music," she continues. "We don't have to think about it to enjoy it."
Hotline Miami not only supported the rise of indie games in the 2010s, but also helped popularize the trend of combining adrenaline-pumping electronic music with dynamic combat, bright colors and elegant kills. In recent years, this combination has appeared in games such as Rollerdrome 2022 or Project Downfall in 2019. Maybe it's because they're already signed to Hotline Miami , but video game publisher Devolver Digital keeps a close eye on high-octane acts, especially ones with this kind of momentum. Ruiner is a brutal 2017 cyberpunk shooter set in the future, while Katana Zero is a 2019 neo-noir about an assassin who must kill enemies and manage time to evade attacks. Both games feature a soul-chilling techno soundtrack recorded on vinyl. Then there's My Friend Pedro , a creative side-scrolling shooter from 2019 that went viral thanks to its inherent GIF ability. The game's grainy soundtrack sounds like Trent Reznor throwing a party with Blade .
"All these games evoked strong emotions, whether it was laughter, risk, or just random screams," recalls Robbie Patterson, a representative of Devolver. The cross-modal experience that emerges in all these games tends to reward sensory overload - bright colors, fast movements, loud music that keeps you on your toes and forces you to concentrate - giving a special madness to the relentless gameplay. Patterson downplays it further: "We're usually interested when a game comes out that looks amazing and fun."
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