Nuclear RL Original Soundtrack

This is the soundtrack of Nuclear RL, arranged in order of appearance ingame and creation date. Every song here was made in Milkytracker with samples from the ST-01 disk that came with Soundtracker for the Amiga.


Misc

Title Theme: Half Death


Death: Radiation Incident


Intermission: Lunch Break


Victory: Lunch Break Extended



Level Cluster 1

Danger Close


Unnatural Waltz


Meltdown


The Hard Way



Level Cluster 2

Arms Race


Bullet Dance



Level Cluster 3

Corporate Military


Long War









Bonus: Half Death (Old PICO-8 Vers.)

Nuclear RL is a very longstanding project. When I first started the Love2D version, it had no music or art direction. When I eventually made the music for the title screen, I hadn't used Milkytracker before, so I intended to make all the music for the game in Pico-8, with custom wavetables. I'm quite glad I didn't, though, as there are some great tracks with some pretty okay instrumentation in the current soundtrack, and that wouldn't have happened without Milkytracker.


For those wondering, Nuclear RL originated as a Scratch project (yes that Scratch) before I'd even owned Pico-8, so sometime in 2020. Surprisingly it still has almost the exact same base weapon, armor, and enemy roster, just with many additions and some renames.