By Toby Fox tobyfox Bandcamp tobyfox Twitter toby.fangamer.com Other fwugradiation Tumblr.
Cover art by Josefin B. konansgirlfriend Tumblr.
Released 7/18/2010.
Art released 10/25/2017.
Duration: 2:15.

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Download sheet music files.
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Read artist commentary.

Tracks that reference psych0ruins:

From Official Discography:

• Arisen Anew by Tensei
• Rex Duodecim Angelus by Malcolm Brown
• The Lost Child by Toby Fox
• Judgment Day by Toby Fox

From Fandom:

• L'etat de l'ambivalence by James Dever
• Soulb0t by Charles Neudorf
• Garden of Eden (Part 1) by Veritas Unae and David Ellis
• The Demon and the Alien by Veritas Unae and David Ellis
• CHEATER PAN by David Burkee
• A Ghost Then a Frog Then a Robot Then a Fairy by cookiefonster
• 26x SHOWDOWN COMBO by cookiefonster
• pysc0roins: licord boogaloo by cookiefonster
• psych0ruins 2: ultra sp00py 0_0 by cookiefonster
• 'Til Death, We Grieve by Tee-vee

Tracks that sample psych0ruins:

From Fandom:

• psych0ruins 2: ultra sp00py 0_0 by cookiefonster

Flashes & games that feature psych0ruins:

• [S] ACT 6 INTERMISSION 3

Print or download sheet music files:

• Sheet music by Gamehunter

  • psych0ruins - Gamehunter.pdf (83.2 kB)

Download MIDI/project files:

• MIDI by Unknown

  • psych0ruins - Unknown.mid (5.5 kB)

Artist commentary:

Toby Fox: (booklet commentary)

(AA Ruins Theme)

I originally wrote the chord progression (and arpeggios) to this song while I was still trying to go through with the original concept for Alternia. I was hoping I could make an alien-sounding song for Karkat's medium using only the hazy skies seen from his window as the inspiration. Unfortunately I only got a few measures done before I ran out of inspiration, and then we saw The Land of Pulse and Haze and I knew this piece was done for. Fortunately I was able to raise what I had written so far from the dead in the form of this track.

Somehow I synthesized that crying sound by accident, but I felt like it was entirely fitting as the mourning of the dead. So I stuck it everywhere.

This track reminds me of Illusion of Gaia and La-Mulana kind of. Two games with a lot of ruins and a bunch of ghosts, dead people, and mysteries. The part at the end in particular reminds me a lot of La Mulana, because that game is prone to very full synth solos with a lot of bending pitch affairs.

Today just found out AA was dead all along... this theme seems a lot more haunting now.

Fitting.

Homestuck: (original track art)