The Way forward for Albums May Be Playable—And This Artist Already Proved It
“Since childhood, I’ve all the time been drawn to the musical facet of the whole lot—theme songs in exhibits and flicks, professional wrestling entrance songs, and online game soundtracks, in fact. Music enhances visible and interactive media, however the reverse can be true, and I sadly by no means get the luxurious of working with different inventive individuals. The universe appears to leap via hoops to make all roads result in doing all of it your self, which is how I ended up as a producer and musician within the first place. I find yourself instructing myself play devices, combine and grasp, and be a photographer and video editor. I wasn’t going to depend on Konami or Nintendo to come back on the lookout for me, so I added recreation developer to the listing.”
These are the highly effective phrases from the artist I Am Kassandra for Social Life-style Journal. It’s an honor to be taught extra from the artist, who describes their musical type:
“As a listener, my music choice has all the time been far and wide, and it’s just about been the identical as an artist. After I was ‘daxelin,’ you’ll be able to hear a form of style swap from album to album. The way forward for I AM KASSANDRA’s musical type goes to get very exhausting to explain, however for this album, being a gaming expertise, the swap occurs nearly observe to trace.”
When requested if any songs or soundtrack moments from this launch really feel particularly significant—whether or not creatively, emotionally, or in relation to the sport itself—the artist shares:
“‘A Tune’ and ‘RAGE QUIT!!!’ had been to start with levels of writing manner earlier than this album was even an thought. I used to be at a little bit of a breaking level, and my existential obsession with science and making an attempt to really perceive the universe was starting. ‘A Tune’ was a tune, ‘RAGE QUIT!!!’ was a poem, and all of it adopted the primary line: ‘Typically after I get up, I want I by no means did.’ That ended up being simply part of the tune, and it sort of become this ‘closing boss’-type idea, the place you attain the top of actuality.
“When it got here time to make a stage for it within the recreation, it developed into this ‘what if’ thought. What if individuals are seeing UFOs? What if individuals are being kidnapped? However what if the ‘aliens’ are literally individuals—conducting experiments and surveillance proper above everybody’s heads, whereas additionally gaslighting them into believing they’re one thing else solely? The idea helped dial the tune again a bit, which it wanted. The unique poem was a lot darker, and I’d have by no means shared it.”
Pulling from a deep nicely of nostalgia and ambition, the artist displays on the roots of the mission and the influence they hope it leaves behind:
“As I stated, I used to be a giant fan of online game soundtracks—Donkey Kong Nation, EarthBound, Road Fighter II—and the way in which each fighter had such a memorable stage tune. I’d love for EVERYTHING IS ERROR to resonate with an viewers as an entire, however this mission allowed me to have a full-circle second, whether or not it goes viral or not. I had lots of enjoyable and frustration making this recreation, but it surely’s really out now on iOS and Android, and I had no thought what I used to be doing lower than half a 12 months earlier than its launch. Even in case you don’t like the sport or soundtrack, I’d hope you can take one thing away from that.”
But when that chapter was about arrival, what comes subsequent is about reinvention. Turning the web page, this artist doesn’t maintain again in relation to the long run, collaborations, and a inventive shift that feels as private as it’s uncompromising:
“I feel I acquired myself labored up earlier over my lack of collaborations haha, I wish to see my inbox flooded from all of the inventive peoples of LA after this! Truthfully, as excited as I’m about this mission being accomplished, I’m equally excited for it to be behind me. This album was a set of labor that spans three years. Three years in the past ‘a tune’ was launched as ‘Tune’ below daxelin (now pulled from streaming companies). To be candid, a few of it feels dated for the place I’m at as an individual, in flip as an artist. As experimental as this album could (or could not) sound to an viewers, I nonetheless thought concerning the viewers, I feel all of us do, to some extent, even once we assume we don’t. I can’t be doing that sooner or later. I don’t know clarify it with out sounding like some cliché ‘I make music for me,’ or like I’m now going to make a 15 minute tune of silence the place a lone doorbell chimes at 11:11. I’m saying I’ll create exterior of the performative appearing world of ‘civilization,’ the hypocrisies, the political storylines, the instigative puppet masters and their indignant puppets, and the entire issues that hold the common human distracted from their very personal existence. There’s this recreation we play, the place all of us exit and faux we aren’t a collective consciousness, pondering, and saying the identical wild issues as our neighbors, behind closed doorways, in our heads, perhaps packaged in numerous phrases. I’ll create, and I’ll resolve whether it is applicable to have a mean human viewers, one which pretends, after.”
To shut, the artist, I’m Kassandra displays on the surprising evolution of the mission, revealing how a easy thought shortly grew into one thing way more bold:
EVERYTHING IS ERROR didn’t start as a recreation—but it surely grew to become one via enlargement and experimentation.
“It was initially launched in November 2025,” the artist explains. “After that, I needed to make music movies that felt like recreation levels. So I taught myself coding. Then animation. Then character design. Then the whole lot else.”
That course of shortly escalated into full-scale reinvention.
“I ended up pulling the album, rebuilding it, and remodeling the whole lot to perform as each a soundtrack and a playable expertise. By April 2026, each the sport and album had been full and launched collectively.”
I AM KASSANDRA is a music producer, artist, and recreation developer. Thanks Kassandra, in your time with Social Life-style Journal!
I Am Kassandra Hyperlinks:
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