![]() Today, policymakers are making plans to revamp the nation’s infrastructure. It did for a minute – but it didn’t last.” “What that Wall was intended for, it didn’t work that way. It’s a part of what happened, and no one feels any negativity towards what happened.” His answer: wall off the white neighbourhood with a concrete barrier. The only problem was, he couldn’t get federal funding to develop the land unless he could prove he had a strategy to prevent black people and white people from mixing. ![]() Land that one housing developer wanted to use to build a “whites-only neighbourhood”. It was also adjacent to empty land – valuable land that developers were rapaciously turning into homes for a surging postwar population. It was a self-contained community, filled with not only African Americans but immigrants of all colours, some of whom had built their houses with their own hands. In 1942, 8 Mile was a black neighbourhood – segregated by law, segregated by culture, segregated from white Oakland County by the eponymous 8 Mile Road. Hidden behind the oak-lined streets is an insidious piece of history that most Detroiters, let alone Americans, don’t even know exists: a half mile-long, 5ft tall concrete barrier that locals simply call “the wall”. In many ways it resembles every other blighted neighbourhood in the city – but with one significant difference. Crime and blight exist side by side with carefully trimmed hedgerows and mowed lawns, a patchwork that changes from block to block. Tax delinquency and debt are still major issues, as they are in most places in the city. “8 Mile”, as the locals call it, is far from the much-touted economic “renaissance” taking place in Detroit’s centre. The sky is a deep blue with only a hint of an approaching thunderstorm – in other words, a muggy, typical summer Sunday in Michigan’s largest city. Children weave down the pavements on bicycles, while a pickup basketball game gets under way in a nearby park. Should be a fun evening/afternoon/morning.It’s a little after 3pm in Detroit’s 8 Mile neighbourhood, and the cicadas are buzzing loudly in the trees. This is also a perfect opportunity to ask us any questions regarding " Road to Nowhere", game development, or anything you like really regarding the project. ![]() In further discussions, we will talk about our musical influences and they have influenced the soundtrack, and how they have adapted traditionalist music composition to an interactive medium. ![]() The developers/musicians will go into detail about the technical elements of the backend of interactive systems in the game, alongside the music software and instruments that Mistermyr and Embryonic to create the aural atmosphere. In celebration of becoming a finalist at the New Zealand Games Festival 2021 we are giving something special back to the community.ġ5BiT will be broadcasting an exclusive live stream on Steam with the lead developer " Dean Thomson" and musical composers " Aaron Mistermyr Silva" and " Tommy Embryonic Gilbert" as we discuss the process of composing the soundtrack for 15BiT's upcoming adventure " Road to Nowhere".ġ5BiT will be discussing how they create the interactive, dynamic music system that creates a unique soundtrack for the player depending on their actions and story beats on screen. ![]()
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