Anodyne

The Anodyne soundtrack was also made available for purchase at the game’s initial release, including all of the music in the game as well as a few bonus tracks. Heavily inspired by titles like The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and Yume Nikki. It features action-adventure gameplay revolving around using a broom to fight enemies and solve puzzles. Anodyne puts the player in the shoes of the protagonist Young, exploring a surreal dream world. Reviews of the game were mostly positive, generally praising the game's mix of action-adventure gameplay with an immersive, dream-like atmosphere created by the game's soundtrack and use of pixel art. Critiques tended to center on the story's lack of clarity, as well as some of the jumping mechanics. The game placed as an honorable mention in the 2013 Student Independent Games Festival. A sequel to the game, Anodyne 2: Return to Dust, was released on August 12, 2019.

• Title — Anodyne • Developer — Analgesic Productions • Publisher — Analgesic Productions • Designer — Melos Han-Tani Marina Kittaka • Programmer — Melos Han-Tani • Composer — Melos Han-Tani • Artist — Marina Kittaka • Engine — Flixel • Released — Windows, macOS, Linux February 4, 2013 iOS June 16, 2013 Android October 15, 2013 PlayStation 4 September 9, 2018 Xbox One September 21, 2018 Nintendo Switch February 28, 2019 • Genre — Action-adventure • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Anodyne is played by exploring a dream world of the game's protagonist, Young. The gameplay involves the use of two primary items, a broom and shoes for jumping. The game takes place in adjacent screen-sized rooms that make up the game's play areas. The player explores dungeons, which are sets of rooms with puzzles and enemies, as well as other areas that focus less on combat and puzzles, such as a red, swamp-like area, and a dimly-lit forest. The player is required to find a certain number of cards in order to progress to the end sections of the game.

Anodyne began as a solo project by Melos Han-Tani (formerly Sean Hogan) in March 2012. Through a mutual friend, in June 2012, Han-Tani met Marina Kittaka, who worked remotely on the game until its release in February 2013. Through development, the two worked together on story themes and level design. Kittaka wrote most of the dialogue and created all of the game's artwork, while Han-Tani programmed the game and wrote its soundtrack. Shortly after release, Anodyne was featured on the front page of The Pirate Bay which garnered the game enough votes to be accepted onto Steam through its Greenlight system. On April 4, 2020, Han-Tani released the source code of Anodyne under a custom permissive license. Although anybody is free to browse the game assets and code base, Analgesic noted that only paid owners of Anodyne may download and use game assets. The source code, however, has been opened up to everyone. A complete repository of Anodyne (2013), compiled by Melos Han-Tani on April 4th, 2020 is hosted on github.com. A complete, Basically-Open-Source* repository of Anodyne 2: Return to Dust (2019) is hosted on github.com.

Anodynes soundtrack was composed by Melos Han-Tani. At the time of Anodynes release, the soundtrack was made available as a download-only on Han-Tani's online Bandcamp store, with the 40 tracks used in the game, as well as 14 bonus tracks, consisting of outtakes, and songs from Anodynes trailers The total runtime is 85 minutes and 32 seconds. Anodyne track list On August 27, 2013, a remix compilation album was released on Han Tani's Bandcamp page, featuring arrangements of Anodynes music from a variety of composers. ANODYNE REMIX ALBUM track list