Paul Ruskay's guest appearances

Paul Ruskay

Top Score

Music Respawn

Grant Kirkhope

Austin Wintory

Videri String Quartet

Dale North

Garry Schyman

Olivier Deriviere

Peter McConnell

Darren Korb

Richard Jacques

Oleksa Lozowchuk

Jack Wall

Cris Velasco

Christopher Tin

Tom Salta

Jason Graves

OwlTail

Lumote is a dreamy puzzle platforming game created by the tiny team of Luminawesome. Composer and sound designer Paul Ruskay describes it as "a science fair project" because they designed a completely new way of generating the graphics with a program that's normally used to place the music at the appropriate moment in a game. The art style is flowy, and as the little blobby Lumote moves through the world interacting with the various flowers and little "dumb-bats," or batteries, the whole environment feels like it's underwater. Paul used that as inspiration, as well as the way nature films are shot and edited to create his playful, ambient soundtrack. Paul says he was thrilled to have a chance to add music and sound design to the genre of puzzle platformers, including games he really admires, like Portal. He says working on this soundtrack felt like unexplored territory, as it did when he wrote the music for the iconic Homeworld series of games. Paul's soundtrack is available with the

Paul Ruskay's Ambient 'Lumote' Sound And Music Is Inspired By Nature Films

On this week's Top Score, Emily Reese talks with composer Paul Ruskay, who created the soundtrack for 'Homeworld Remastered'. He explains how he brought the soundtrack back to life from its original version, composed 15 years ago.

Top Score: Composer Paul Ruskay