Hello everyone!

Thanks for so many great comments about the music I made to our jam game RIITA. So I wanted to tell you a little bit about the process and how it was made!

As the main focus of the game is playing the Finnish instrument called Kantele (Kannel, Zyther) which is a string instrument somewhat similar to a small harp, I wanted to incorporate it to the soundtrack as much I could reasonably fit. I dug through my old stuff and was happy that I found my old Kantele from high school. The kantele I used in the soundtrack of the game is the typical smaller five string version. To differentiate the two sides I played with the tuning of the kantele and even played it differently as you can also use harmonics on the strings like on a guitar.

The kantele parts of the soundtrack are a mixture of me recording and playing my actual kantele and samples of the strings that I recorded and played with my DAW. So every time you play our game and hit the notes you are actually playing my own kantele :)

Anyway thanks again to all the people who have played our game and enjoyed my music!

If you haven't played our game yet I highly suggest you do!

Here is the link to our game!

And here is a link to the soundtrack if you are interested:

Riita Soundtrack

Thank you for reading!

-ALKS