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Original score by Michael Kirby Ward

An action adventure about a ghost’s journey through the afterlife. Possess enemies and the environment and fend off hostile spirits in pursuit of starry fragments from a past life.

  • Nominated - 42nd Golden Joysticks Awards: Best Soundtrack

  • Nominated - 23rd G.A.N.G. Awards:
    Best Music for an Indie Game

  • Nominated - 23rd G.A.N.G. Awards:
    Best Audio for an Indie Game

  • Nominated - 23rd G.A.N.G. Awards:
    Best Original Song

  • Nominated - 23rd G.A.N.G. Awards:
    Best New Original IP Audio


ANNIE AND THE AI

Original score by Michael Kirby Ward

Step into the role of Esme, an AI built by Annie but built for what purpose? Evolve and learn by solving visual puzzles accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn artwork. Learn all about Annie's life, befriend her, and grow together.


Original score written, performed, recorded, and produced by Michael Kirby Ward

Bosorka is an exciting action roguelike where a young witch saves the world from insidious and cruel demons. Combine runes, master a variety of brooms, and try all possible and impossible spells until you gain enough power to fight evil.


Original score written and produced by Michael Kirby Ward

The Serpent Rogue is an action-adventure game built around exploring a medieval fantasy world, mastering the art of alchemy, and taming wild creatures.


Original score written and produced by Michael Kirby Ward

Diluvion: Resubmerged is a massive re-envisioning of the gorgeous indie videogame Diluvion, by Arachnid Games. With new visuals, new music, new gameplay mechanics, and an overhauled storyline, this nautical steampunk adventure is unforgettable.


Original score written and produced by Michael Kirby Ward

"Diluvion's most notable accomplishment is its score, a beaut symphony that haunts every mile you journey in-game"
-Gamespot

"Diluvion‘s soundtrack epitomizes the more emphatic delivery of music for an RPG... A soundtrack that feels right at home in either a JRPG or WRPG carved out by a much bigger/grander AAA studio."
-Hardcore Gamer

"The score for this game is impeccable."
-GameRaven

"It's without a doubt one of the game's best elements, with many tracks sounding like they'd belong in a film."
-GameReactor UK

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I think the best part of Diluvion has to be the original soundtrack. The music was perfect."
-The Nerd Stash

"A gorgeous, almost whimsical score that travels with you as you glide through the deep"
-Twinfinite

"Diluvion possesses a cinema-quality soundtrack that compliments its ethereal dream-like landscapes."
-Overpowered Noobs


COUNTLESS THOUSANDS …AND THE TRIUMPH OF JUSTICE

Guitar, mandolin, piano, organ, bass, and backing vocals by Michael Kirby Ward
Produced, arranged, mixed, and mastered by Michael Kirby Ward


”This album is a must have for any music fan of all genres. The love and energy that Countless Thousands put into this album shows on every song.”
-Infrared Magazine

“Whether it’s a pop-rock banger, raging punk, calm folk, lofty piano breaks, experimental noise, or Misfits-style anthems, you never know what you’re in for next—and that’s what makes this record such a unique and interesting journey.”
-Headstuff.org

And the Triumph of Justice from Countless Thousands is exactly what we need right now, a bit of fun.”
-VinylChapters

”This is not amateur-sounding punk rock. Rather, it's a punkish collection of songs, with musicianship bordering on Frank Zappa's extremely high standards.”
-antiMusic.com

Indeed, this is not only something fresh musically, but it’s a good mix of different themes that all nicely fit together in Countless Thousands’ epic, must listen album.”
-Movieboozer.com


The overview Effect

Original score written and produced by Michael Kirby Ward

On a perpetual loop aboard the International Space Station, astronauts have been observing our planet in astonishing detail, while capturing its dynamic beauty in one of the greatest photographic collections of all time.


Produced and arranged by Michael Kirby Ward

A joyous amalgamation of soft folk, blues, country, musical theater, pop, africana, and singer-songwriter styles composed by Bev Ward


 

Original score written and produced by Michael Kirby Ward

Forever bound, Earth and Sun make their way amid the dust lanes and luminous highways of the Milky Way. The heat of hot plasma shimmers against the blues and greens of a living planet. One, a roiling, gaseous star infused with thermonuclear energy. The other, a cool watery ball of silicon and iron. When we gaze upon the Sun, we glimpse Earth's fiery birth within the limitless sweep of cosmic time.


Rise of the Great White Shark

Original score written and produced by Michael Kirby Ward Addition music by Bobby Cole, Keith Anthony Holden, Neil Cross, and Mikael Manvelyan

This film traces the rise of the Great White Shark 11 million years ago in the wake of dramatic changes in Earth's landmasses and climate. At the end of an age dominated by giant ocean predators, white sharks evolved in tandem with seals and other pinnipeds in response to steadily cooling conditions. This film is the result of a decade of filming white sharks by renowned cameraman Andy Casagrande.


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