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Tactile

by Magnus Pålsson

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    <Tactile>

    You are tasked to isolate yourself for a month to do what's neccessary. Few people to trust. Many security protocols to breach. Different firewalls to circumvent.

    Even a keyboard warrior doesn't go to war without a reason. Good that at least you don't have to face anyone in a physical fight. That wouldn't be your game. Your game is the code. Opening the ports. The doors need to come open for retrieving information.

    You tap your keys impatiently as the screen flickers and comes to life. This keyboard has a nice feel to it. Each press has a satisfying metallic click sound. You could type for hours on end. It becomes a meditation to think and write the most efficient code to get into the target systems.

    Click, clickety clickety. Forget the stroke of the pen. The keyboard keystroke is where the power lies nowadays.

    </Tactile>

    A departure from my chiptunes, Tactile is a soundtrack meant for a non-existant hacking game conceptualized by Stephen H (Twitter: @qberty1337) with the same name. This is also the reason some songs end a bit strangely: those tracks were made to loop.

    I hope you all enjoy some moody cyberpunk vibes, some upbeat vibes and some goofy vibes! If you've read this far, I'd like to suggest you read all the texts for each of the songs - they all tell a small part of a bigger (largely untold) incomprehensible story. A story which I stitched together and narrated in the bonus section.

    If the game ever gets made, There might be an update to make it more coherent...
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about

In this time of deepfakes, AI and general fakery, some people find it hard to know if they're even real themselves or living in a simulation. Perhaps a simulation where the theme is cyberpunk with smokey rooms where hyper intelligent computer hackers hang out.

What if you were in a Matrix? Did that cat walk by you once or twice? Deja vu or glitch in the Matrix? When you inspect closer, there are glitches. The seams come apart. Bugs in the system. Sometimes, the only way to really know if something's real is to touch it.

Most of the time, that dispels the illusion. But not always. The truth is in there. In the mainframe. It must be hacked. It's your dark job to do. Now, even if things seem really real to you as you sit and read this text, what if the coders of reality have figured out how to simulate it being... Tactile?

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released June 3, 2023

Magnus Pålsson on everything except electric guitar
Grant Henry on electric guitar

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Magnus Pålsson Sweden

I've been into games since I first laid my hands on some Game&Watch handhelds from Nintendo.
It then continued with C-64, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, and later on PC.
I love the music those machines had. The gaming music. The OLDSCHOOL gaming music!
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