DOS: Steve Pardo

DOS: Steve Pardo is a single-player, beat-based platformer with puzzle-solving, adventure game mechanics and a subtle narrative. You play as a blinking-eyed cube, exploring one level for each of the album’s seven songs. Reactive challenges appear along the way, while the music remains at the center of the experience.

Music and story

The game presents the instrumental, cinematic album DOS as an adventure. Its seven songs were written by game composer Steve Pardo during a period when he and his family moved from Boston to Nashville. The music is rooted in jazz and draws on indie rock, electronic, ambient and classical influences; it is patient, evolving, melodic and curious. The story is designed to be simple to pick up and play.

The album’s musicians

Steve Pardo performs on woodwinds, guitars, keys, synths and effects. The album also features Mike Baggetta on electric guitar and effects, Jon Estes on guitars and bass, and Brian Fitch on drums, with Liz Estes on violin and Amy Pardo on flute.