Ashley Stitt - Garden of the Gods

Ashley Stitt's senior project in composition involved conceptualizing and programming a demo for a video game, and then creating the music and sounds for that game. Here are her notes about this project, completed in Spring of 2023:
Garden of the Gods is a short, open world walking simulator, where you can wander around a small world and are encouraged to interact with larger glowing flowers. Each of these flowers present a different quote on respecting nature and the implications of our actions on the environment. This trailer explores the first environment of 3, each getting more desolate and dark.
The quotes are pulled from a variety of places, including Paul Shepard’s "The Others" (1996), Robin Wall Kimmerer’s "Braiding Sweetgrass" (2013), Audrey DeLella Benedict’s "The Naturalist’s Guide to the Southern Rockies" (1991 and 2008), and Robert Henson’s "The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change" (2019), as well as some text written by myself with inspiration from these books and more.
The game, art, and music was created by Ashley Stitt in completion of a Bachelor of Music in Composition from MSU Denver, with great help from her brother Makennen Stitt.