Years ago when we started making The Path with Kris and Jarboe on board to do the soundtrack I kind of dreamed of this day. Well now I can say the circle is round and this journey is complete. Not only can you get The Path Soundtrack on CD from us and from the wonderful publisher Paradigms Recordings, but now you can download the music from iTunes and emusic… And probably a few other music download portals as well! Not sure why, but it makes me unspeakably happy to see (and hear) the compositions they made out there among all the other music in the world. They do this album release thing all the time, but for me it’s a first! Having everything available, out there, being listened to by everyone now… makes it all feel more real.
The Path original soundtrack CD is now available through our online store! Check it out here. We only have a few copies available but it will continue to be available through Paradigms Recordings until they sell out.
Yes! This is really happening!
You can now pre-order The Path Soundtrack CD! Or choose the absolutely beautiful CD + T-Shirt package. All created by our friends at UK based label Paradigms Recordings.
The CD is a limited edition digipak. Only 500 have been printed. Paradigms will be shipping the pre-orders at the beginning of May.
Here’s the blurb:
Paradigms Recordings is very proud to announce a rather special new release - “THE PATH” is the haunting soundtrack to the boutique computer game of the same name, developed by Tale Of Tales Studios. Kris Force (Amber Asylum / Neurosis) and the legendary Swans vocalist Jarboe were comissioned to compose the music for, narrate and vocalise this dark horror concept. The result is one hour of truly mesmerizing, disturbing, blackened fairy tale sonics. From delicate songwriting to Jarboe’s demonic, possessed rasp all wrapped up in dense, claustrophobic atmospheres and harrowing stories, this is some of the most potent work from these two distinguished artists.
Needless to say we here at Tale of Tales are breathlessly excited to get the soundtrack out there!
Our main blog may be closed but The Path blog rolls on!
In fact, expect major announcements. Including the long awaited, coming of The Path Soundtrack album, coming later this month!
And here’s an overview of what went has gone on recently:
We published The Path postmortem chronicling the making of the game. This was a great way for us to look back on the history of the project, even if it is impossible to describe 3 years of development in a summary fashion!
On The Path blog there were 10 days of posts written from a very personal perspective to supplement the grand postmortem essay. These stories were full of insights about the Red Girls and their Wolves. And we uploaded tons of work in progress imagery, drawings and screenshots covering the entire development, on Flickr on The Path Archive. So if you are curious about the making of the game, have a look at all the Anniversary posts listed there.
The merchandising for The Path has been a really home-made affair, despite the fact that we get our stuff professionally printed. We still load up the data on the USB drive ourselves, I pack up each poster and try to give everything a personal touch. We actually don’t make much money from selling these USBs and posters and cards but I am very happy that people who like having a physical product can have one to remember our game by.
The choice to make USB sticks rather than CD’s was a simple one. We wanted fans to have something they could keep using long after they’ve stopped playing. I imagine that you could copy all the data then put whatever you want on the drive for many years to come. I have hundreds of old CD’s sitting in boxes in the attic… we didn’t want The Path to be one of those things. And so far we’ve done 3 editions of the Ruby one, 2 of Rose and this will be the one and only time we’ll print Robin, to keep her edition special.
For The Path’s 1 year anniversary, we are selling the silver USB featuring a sweet little print of Robin that contains the PC & Mac version of the game plus your choice of poster. The Rose (Mac only USB) is marked down until March 28. There are lots of other things on sale too.
(By the way, the things I’m going to post here won’t always be duplicates of the main ToT blog,I’m just making sure everyone gets a chance to get something while the sale is going on. Things will be getting much more tangential tomorrow.)
The USB versions of The Path twice sold out, now it’s time for Edition 3. Featuring Special Edition wallpapers for your computer, work in progress videos, unreleased demos, and of course The Path game itself.
You can buy the USB edition via our online store for Mac or PC.
Or trial. Or demo. Finally you can try before you buy! Except this demo contains things that don’t happen in the full game… or rather, things happen differently. Maybe you will like to see it even if you’ve already played The Path.
Download The Path - Prologuehere. Available for PC and Mac!
This journal chronicles the making of The Path, a single player horror game developed by Tale of Tales, the game was released in March 2009 and can be downloaded via this website! Contributors to this journal are the game’s main creators Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn.
We hope you will enjoy our candid revelations about the work process. But we do want to warn you that if you truly want to experience The Path fresh, you might want to avoid reading these pages. We cannot garantee spoiler-free content!
