Cult of the Lamb Composer Narayana Johnson Dies Avid gamers Enviornment

Cult of the Lamb composer Narayana Johnson, who labored below the pseudonym River Boy, has handed away, main developer Large Monster to name for followers to provide them “some area and a few kindness”.

In a publish on the sport’s Steam web page, Large Monster says it is “unimaginable to explain how a lot of a void” Johnson’s passing will depart on the studio. He was Large Monster’s audio director, however the dev says he was “greater than” that; he was additionally a “inventive powerhouse”, a “pal”, and “[their] foolish little man”.

Large Monster goes on to say that Johnson is “woven into the soul of Cult of the Lamb” because of his audio work on the sport, and that each the sport and the studio “will not be the identical” with out him.

No explanation for demise was given for Johnson, and no sickness was beforehand revealed both, so it isn’t completely clear how he handed away at current.

Large Monster says it recommends that you simply “take a second to have a look at nature” and “contact your toes to the earth” to have a good time Johnson’s life, and that “he would need you to take heed to his music and bear in mind how a lot it meant to him to share it”.

When you’re not acquainted with Johnson as a composer, he typically labored below the pseudonym River Boy, and he was additionally half of the duo Willow Beats.

In line with his web site, Narayana Johnson made music that “attracts extensively on his childhood and teenage years spent roaming creeks, forests and mountains within the Northern Rivers, New South Wales”.

His work on Cult of the Lamb feels very evocative of the sport’s tone; it is darkish, eerie electronica, however there is a playful aspect to it as nicely, reflective of the sport’s combination of sacrificial rituals and cutesy animals.

If you would like to listen to Johnson’s work on Cult of the Lamb (and play a fairly nice sport into the cut price), you’ll be able to test it out proper now on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Change. You possibly can learn Alex’s evaluation of the sport right here.