The physical world is dying. Machines have made human effort obsolete, and the only future is a virtual environment that approximates their old reality. The problem? None of the uploaded souls can agree on what reality was. While musing about their last days on Earth, they argue about whether a river is actually a road, whether an apartment’s stairs should lead to anything, and whether a tree belongs in the middle of a living room.

In 2020 we worked with digital art studio idontloveyouanymore to direct the music and sound for the beautiful and unsettling VR film To Miss The Ending.

To Miss The Ending premiered at BFI London Film Festival 2020, where it won their inaugural Best XR/Immersive Art Award. And has since been presented at DOK Leipzig 2020, Sundance Film Festival 2021 and International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021, with more to come.

WeMakeAudio Director and Composer Jamie Finlay was recognised for his work on To Miss the Ending with a prestigious ASCAP Composer Spotlight at the Sundance Film Festival.

We collaborated with UNIT9 and Nike to create a one-of-a-kind experience marking the launch of the Nike Pegasus Turbo. The brand wanted an in-store launch experience as turbo-charged as the shoe; something that allowed fans to fly higher and higher the faster they ran.

The experience was revealed in the flagship store in Berlin where runners could test-drive the new sneakers on a treadmill positioned in front of a giant backdrop. As runners ran their way through a virtual Berlin, Paris and London, they could see their surroundings change in real-time. Real-time visuals need real-time music, and that’s where we came in.

Using a modified treadmill UNIT9 fed data into a game engine, mapping the speed of the treadmill, the fan and the lights. Taking into account these parameters, we composed, produced and built a bespoke, generative soundtrack that could change and adapt to the runners experience.

In the high-stakes, dark fantasy action game Gods Will Fall you will find your clan of eight warriors pitted against ten malicious gods and their hordes of zealous and twisted vassals. In order to survive the brutal and nightmarish realms of the gods and save humanity from their thrall you’ll need to learn more than just how to swing your weapons…

We worked with game studio Clever Beans and publisher Deep Silver to create the sound and music for the dark fantasy Gods Will Fall.

With a pick up and play combat style that is easy to learn but tough to master, a massive challenge awaits all who venture within and we wanted to reflect this with dynamic and immersive game audio.

As huge fans of the fantasy genre and souls-like games, we were very excited to work with Clever Beans on this ambitious title. We conducted a thorough deep-dive into the genre before we began development. Examining the audio for games such as the Dark Souls series, Bloodborne, God of War and Hellblade. We really wanted to get under the hood of what drives an amazing fantasy gaming experience.

The generative difficulty of Gods Will Fall means every playthrough is completely unique. We designed our audio to reflect this with a fully dynamic audio system that reacts to player decisions, threat levels and game narrative.

Ten unique dungeons, ten ferocious Gods, 30 unique enemies, a rabble of Celtic warriors and an arsenal of melee weapons.

A huge amount of work goes into developing any game and we were responsible for every facet of Gods Will Fall’s audio production; from sound design, adaptive music scoring, audio implementation, casting and voice design to all of the games cutscenes.

In 2014 we worked with agency B-Reel, Marvel Studios and Google, to create a Guardians of the Galaxy viral site in the form of a corporate website for intergalactic travel agency “Galaxy Getaways”. The website allowed Marvel fans to explore three new planets from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Xandar, Morag and Knowhere).

Using Google Street View, fans were launched into the outer reaches of the galaxy to explore exotic locations like the caves of Morag or the grimy back alleys of Knowhere.

There was also the opportunity for fans to get to know the Guardians of the Galaxy through a series of interactive games including “Find Groot” a Google Street View game that takes place in the city centre of Xandar, or take and share social quizzes that showed what Guardian they are most like.

Our role was to create and implement an audio design that gelled with the films unique look and sound. We worked with as-yet-unreleased footage from the film, re-designing whole scenes to work with the site, adding site wide UI sound effects and ambiences as well as designing sound for three mini games.

As Marvel fans we loved this experience and it was an honour to introduce the fricking Guardians of the Galaxy to the universe.