Everybody's Gone to the Rapture: writing a score for the end of the world

How this very English view of the apocalypse communicates to the player through music, sound and song

Silence is rare in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - which is strange because everybody is dead.

This elegiac adventure game, set in a rural area of Shropshire, imagines the end of humanity coming, not as a nuclear bang, but as a soft, almost seductive whimper. The player finds themselves in an abandoned village shortly after a devastating event of some kind, and by exploring the buildings, pathways and woodlands, must try to piece together what has happened.