At long last, and in response to overwhelming public demand, I’ve put together a free downloadable soundtrack to ESCAPE FROM PUPPY DEATH FACTORY! Again, a super special thanks to Adult Swim Games for giving me the chance to make this game, and for being 100% completely cool with me putting this soundtrack up to download for absolutely free. Obviously they’re really, really cool guys who deserve a non-stop perpetual high five machine. Oh, and in case you haven’t played the game itself, click here already.
After “the jump”, you’ll find the individual tracks themselves, playable right in your browser. Technology is GREAT!
I had a lot of fun writing the music for Escape From Puppy Death Factory (Or, as the game was called during development, K9 From Outer Space [would you believe it? A pun.]). I spent a lot of time listening to music from Super Metroid, Bionic Commando, and even the NES version of Tetris in order to get the sound of the game just right — something a little moody and atmospheric, but also really melodic.
Pretty early on in the development, I wanted to try something different, and get rid of the minimap altogether, substituting it with an audio based puppy locator system. The idea was real simple — each musical track would have a separate “dog barking” track which would get louder or softer depending on your position in relation to the lost puppy. In practice though, it turned out to be not so fun to get lost in the game world, and people were getting frustrated trying to find the one or two puppies they left behind (inevitably, they’d be the ones in the missile silo, which you can only really access from the start of the game). I did keep the barking system though, because I really liked the effect it gave, and I especially liked how the dog barks punctuated the more minimalistic tracks. This did, however, have the side effect of requiring two tracks for every song in the game — and given this was a flash game, and needed to be a relatively small download, the tracks themselves ended up being pretty short.
With that said, I’m really happy with how it all turned out, and I hope you all enjoy it too. You can listen to the individual tracks below, or click here to download the whole shebang. Bark bark woof woof.
01. The Last Puppies Are In Captivity
02. K9 From Outer Space (K9 THEME)
03. Post Apawcalyptia
04. In The Howl Of The Mountain King
05. Vault K9
06. Bomb Factory
07. Slumdog
08. Lunch Silo
09. Underground Jungle
10. The General
11. Mother Rain + Puppy Death Factory
12. ugotdapuppy
13. uarethek10
14. The Electric Pup Parade (Ending)
15. Paws
16. Title
August 28th, 2011 at 7:01 am
For some reason the melody in Underground Jungle makes me feel tingly. This is awesome.
August 29th, 2011 at 9:29 am
I was SO happy you posted this! For a while I would just replay the game and get to the Hydroponics Lab and then go about my merry way.
Once again, you’re amazing, Mr. Podunkian! ^_^
August 29th, 2011 at 10:06 am
So, yeah, I like pretty much everything about this!
August 29th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
i’m glad you guys all like it! i’m surprised people like the underground jungle song as much as i do — it’s my second favorite only to the main K9 theme.
i was listening a lot to the more mellow maridia song from super metroid when i wrote it, but listening back, it’s really hard for me to hear any similarities beyond the monotone bass and the sort of use of flutey-ish samples, which i guess is a good thing.
August 29th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Hey, I’ve just got to ask though – are you sure you weren’t listening to a certain song from Mother 3 when composing the beginning part of Slumdog?
August 29th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
that song was written a long time ago for the underside. i was running out of steam writing music so i just changed the samples and added a dog barky layer. i think you can find the original version in the post about all of the work in progress content from the game.
August 31st, 2011 at 2:49 pm
awesome tunes! keep up the amazing games.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:16 am
Awesome! I’ve been looking forward to this download as the music was cracking in EFPDF. Cheers!
September 1st, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Oh hey, since we’re talking about The Underside… Any news on that yet?
September 3rd, 2011 at 3:13 am
thats funny huntar
arthur most likely used all future music assets for TU into this game
September 9th, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Great Article! I am an indie musician and love meeting like minded folks. Music is my passion in life and it reflects in my work. I will be back here often to read your new posts!
September 10th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
baha someone’s always with the underside questions.
tits-awesome (i’m a bird enthusiast) game, loved the puzzles, they were actually kinda challenging, can’t wait for your next gamearoo, whenever that is.
September 10th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Thank you for posting this, I tracked you down from Adult Swim and was so glad to see you made the music from EFPDF available. Your music really is fantastic, it made my day much cheerier. Reminds me of the catchy, whimsical stuff on Nitrome, and is just as awesome.
September 11th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
the cunterside
September 27th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Hi! I have one question. Have you ever make something like a Metal Gear Solid remake before Merry Gear Solid. I remember a little demo with a gameplay like Merry gear solid but cant find anywhere. Thanks
September 28th, 2011 at 2:34 am
yeah, but it was pretty bad. i still have a copy but i don’t want to put it up anywhere, haha.
September 29th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
packing facility theme?..
October 7th, 2011 at 11:22 am
Mr. Podunkian, could you send me that little remake to my email please? I remember when i play it, and i liked so much, but i lost it and can’t find.
I wont show it anywhere, i want the game in my pc archives, it remembers me about good times
Thanks.
November 13th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Its getting close to december, is there anything on Merry Gear Solid 3? Come on, don’t leave us in the…cold.
November 16th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Is there any way I could get the sheet music for this on the keyboard? Ive learned to play a few of these by ear, but the actual notes would help alot.
November 17th, 2011 at 4:56 am
10,000-million thanks for the soundtrack man! =3 I loved the game and adored the music, and even tried to record the audio from the game (with next to no success, as I am a noob at such things). So this is totally sweet!
November 20th, 2011 at 12:58 am
Hey, speaking of Mother 3 and The Underside…
Seeing as The Underside is on hold indefinately (= forever) I had to get creative to fill the void left in my soul. So I decided to play through Mother 3 and name the Dad character “FiveAces.” Probably the closest thing I can get to The Underside, besides just beating the demos over and over (which I’ve done.)
Just kidding, that post was a lie.
November 21st, 2011 at 12:51 pm
You could pack Merry Gear Solid 2 to some indie bundle (or 3 if it comes out)
December 26th, 2011 at 8:50 am
No Merry Gear for this year then?
January 24th, 2012 at 2:25 am
Hurry up and write about something!
February 26th, 2012 at 12:47 am
Maybe a bit late, but I just gotta say, even though it strayed a bit from the original design, The Underside was a nice little game. How did it go from the original concept to puppies though?
March 14th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
What happened to the underside? D:
April 18th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
The Underside = dead?
April 20th, 2012 at 4:40 am
Is this guy like dead now?
April 22nd, 2012 at 3:43 am
HEY FUCKER!!!!!
April 25th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
any news about M3RRY Gear Solid : dead of winter?
June 8th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Just played this game on Newgrounds, it was really great, I loved every minute of it (except puppy #11…….)
June 25th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Escape From Puppy Death Factory was amazing! The soundtrack was awesome, the graphics were lively, and the swap gun is the coolest gun ever! I was wondering, is there a sequel planned?
Also, I can’t get the music out of my head!
August 4th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Slumdog is my favorite track, or at least it is the one that gets stuck in my head the most. Vault K9 is a pretty close second. Some of these are at Megaman soundtrack levels of catchy in that I have caught myself humming them days, months after I had last played the game.
August 20th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Did someone say THE UNDERSIDE?
October 31st, 2012 at 12:31 pm
I hope you’re slaving away on Merry Gear Solid 3 to give it out for Xmas!
March 29th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
when does the underside come out