Each in-game day of Mutazione has a different track, that varies where you are in the game, and which time of day it is. Each track is made up by different soundclips and loops, that would get play randomly, so the music never feels repetitive.

We added all the town gardens as an update to #Mutazione 's Garden Mode a few months after we launched the game in 2019 (Platforms have changed since then, the game is not on Apple Arcade anymore, but on the App Store instead).

Alessandro @millogameaudio.bsky.social said: “To mimic the un-evenness of nature's motion, we needed extremely subtle sound design for the gardens. Each plant sounded slightly different from clip to clip for each growth stage. In the end we had more than 7000 individual clips of plant sounds.”

#Mutazione has its own “garden mode”, which lets you use the gardens as a ambient music generator, which evolves in time as new seeds plant themselves and mature plants die and make space for new ones.

Music and musical ambience takes a front seat when experiencing #Mutazione. There were the musical garden, in which the players were able to plant plants that each emitted ambient music clips. The key of the garden music would change depending on which plant “mood” dominated the gardens.

#Mutazione took me 11 years to make – Concept, World, Characters, Story, Creative Direction of a core team of up to 13 and the work of my career I’m most proud of (so far) – Out as a premium title on iOS and Android. It's even more relevant now and I hope it still is 11 years after its release.