Recording provided by Open Range Video and J-Tech Audio Visual. Audio mixed by Antonino d'Urzo.

Title: So Let Us Melt
Game: So Let Us Melt
Composer: Jessica Curry
Arranger: Jonathan Hansford

So Let Us Melt is an on-rails virtual reality game developed exclusively for the nowdiscontinued Google Daydream platform. The main plot places the player in the role of Custodian 98, one of many anthropomorphic robots tasked with preparing a planet for habitation by cryogenically frozen humans over a period of several million years. The robots communicate with each other primarily through singing, which is accomplished by pointing the hand controller at an interactable object and holding a button. The frame story, which depicts a woman telling Custodian 98’s story to a group of children around a campfire at night, and the cartoon-like art style give the game a fairy-tale atmosphere. This song, which bears the same title as the game, is not heard during the gameplay until the credits. The lyrics quote portions of the poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” written in the early seventeenth century by English poet John Donne. Writing to his wife, Donne assures her while they will be apart for some time, because their love is already strong, the separation will strengthen it further.

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