Wandersong

After 5 years we've finally created an official Wandersong discord community! This will be a space for fans of Wandersong and our other projects to hang out and chat, and it's where we'll be sharing news about future projects too.

Be seeing you there!

Thank you! I took a lot of inspiration from Cucumber Quest and the works of Gigidigi; she does amazing dramatic stuff with color in her work that was new to me and that definitely emboldened me to try getting crazy with varied color palettes in Wandersong.

Has anyone pointed this Easter egg out before that you’ve seen?

Who on the Dev team is a big Sheryl Crow fan

are there any other characters who’s dialogue is slightly obscure song lyrics?

Are there any other Easter eggs you haven’t heard anyone talk about yet? I understand if you don’t want to spoil what they are, I’m just curious if they exist Thank you so much for your time, Wandersong will always be a top 10 for me, I hope you all keep making amazing games!

We'd be surprised if nobody noticed this before... but, we don't actually know if anyone has, haha! Your mom can claim being the first!

I (Greg) was obsessed with this song when I was living on my bicycle and it got me through some tough days so I wanted to honor it somewhere.

All of the character’s voices were performed by us and our friends. I cherish the times we spent recording them. Miriam’s vocals were all Em, Captain Lucas was all Gord, and I (Greg) did all of the bard’s non-singing vocals (so the snore, the gasps and oohs, etc.) Audrey was voiced by my then-roommate Jaymee Mak, she was getting into TV acting at the time although now she works at Brace Yourself Games (!)

the sword is (probably?) indestructible, but if it's buried in lava then there'd be no way for audrey to retrieve it!

what happens from there is totally up to the circumstances. "typically," the angel/Eyala might simply retrieve it for her. but given what was going on in the story at the time, maybe she wouldn't, so as to buy the bard and miriam time to save the world properly. and maybe audrey calculated that and realized that was at stake if she lost her sword at that moment.

i recognize this could be a valuable resource to some, so i will give a general rundown here. but i want to emphasize that there's no strict canon interpretation of them and that other readings of them are perfectly acceptable and valid. part of what makes the symbols fun and work they way they do is that they can be subjectively interpreted, like tarot cards.

green = wind/gust. freedom, independence, controlling your own direction without being bound by others. breathing.

pink = hearts. love, connection, bonds. being responsible to and honoring your bonds with others. blood.

red = order/triangle. rules, laws, logic and reason. organization, predictability. schedule. rhythm.

cyan = chaos/drop. disorder, anarchy, randomness, unpredictability. fun and adventurousness and the exotic. but also being lost or confused.

orange = sun. information, knowledge, the truth. history and facts. honesty. the day; light.

blue = moon. mystery. deceit and misinformation, but also fiction and fantasy and magic. the night; darkness.

yellow = dreams/star. hope, belief, faith, wishes. creativity, the power to will things into reality which don't yet exist.

Are aliens a thing in the wandersong universe, both the new universe and the old?

AND IF YES, I have so many other questions:

When the universe was recreated around Earth, was life rebeginning, or are there intelligent creatures living on those new planets? When the old universe was ending, did other planets have their own Rainbow Angels, Heroes, their own Songs, maybe even their own Bards and Overseers? Could the stars blinking out be other planets going the process of their Overseers dying?

ty taking the time to answer and have a good one!

thank you for this question! it weighed heavy on us while working on the game.

YES, there are aliens and alien worlds out there, with intelligent life, also going through the same apocalypse with heroes, swords, angels and overseers, and blinking out of existence one by one over the course of the game.

it wouldnt be accurate to say the new universe was recreated around earth. but the earth was uniquely allowed to continue from the old universe into the new one, re-woven perfectly into it as one tiny element in its grand tapestry, thanks to their successful "earthsong."

in this fiction, the beginning of a new universe is more or less exactly like the event we call the big bang in reality. but as part of the bargain for their successful earthsong/universal transplant, the earth would be somehow spared/shielded from the initial molten insanity that a big bang entails. there's a couple ways that could work, but one way might be for the new big bang to be magically arranged in such a way that, among everything else, the earth happens to pop out of it fully formed exactly the way it was when it entered, and the consciousness of the planet is magically allowed to "skip ahead" through that formation, such that time would seem continuous when in fact a couple billion years just passed in the blink of an eye and the planet beneath their feet, and all the atoms composing the people on it, are completely different ones. (hence so much credits dialogue about how things "feel different" now). or maybe an impossibly unlikely quantum event is allowed to happen where all the heat just "misses" them. in any case, the earth would be uniquely old and advanced as a civilization in this new universe. intelligent life would be forming/would eventually form on other planets but probably not until billions of years after humans have gone extinct on earth in the new universe.

After reading your response to mermaid ask i was curious, what would that act be about if you were to rewrite it? And would it still include pirates? It that's okay to ask, of course

Also did the Bard get so attached to Captain Lucas because they think pirates are cool or because he's like a subconscious father figure to them? Or both?

We love pirates and having a pirate act was an absolute must when deciding to make this game. if we were to think of an alternate act 3 story off the cuff... since the theme was "chaos," and there would be pirates, maybe there'd be a story with a navy imposing laws/order and you'd have to help the pirates sow some kind of chaos/anarchy into the seas. but maybe it goes too far, and confuses things. like at first the bard is excited about it because it seems like their mission is to make the world more fun. but then they accidentally overthrow an international government? and while they're wondering if that was the right thing to do, they'd wind up in the spirit world, and find out they aren't even the hero they thought they were?