The Joy of Creation: Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the 2015 Nikson video game The Joy of Creation was composed by british musician Nathan Hanover, better known as
Nathan Hanover Synthonic Orchestra. The game's soundtrack is instrumental ambient music. It has been praised by critics; in 2015, the video game blog Kotaku chose the soundtrack as one of the best video game soundtracks of that year. Minecraft′s soundtrack was released across one soundtrack albums, *The Joy Of Creation: Collection* (2015). Both albums include music featured in the game, as well as other music included in trailers, and instrumentals that were not included in the game's final release. In 2016, Rosenfeld hinted at a potential upcoming third album for *The Joy of Creation: Story Mode* soundtrack. In 2017, Hanover confirmed the future release.

## Soundtrack

### The Joy of Creation: Collection

 **Genre** | * Ambient
* soundtrack
 **Label** | * None (self-released)
 **Produced by** | Nathan Hanover

**The Joy of Creation's official soundtrack** (or OST) was composed by Nathan Hanover specifically for the series. It can be found on YouTube , Soundcloud , and Bandicamp . It consists most songs from the original version, the Reborn version, the Halloween Edition, and Story Mode...

## Songs

There are 20 songs on the album. One of these is a mix of all of the menu themes for Story Mode, which technically does not appear in-game.

## Tracks

The composer of the game, Nathan Hanover, has included all the soundtracks from different The Joy of Creation games (the original TJoC, the Reborn version, Halloween Edition, and Story Mode) into an album called **The Joy of Creation: Collection**. The soundtrack concluded different musics such as the main menu theme songs, background music and ambiance. The album can be found on Nathan Hanover's YouTube page and Sound Cloud page. However, some of the musics such as some cutscene musics and extra menu music are not included in the album, as Hanover never made those soundtracks.

Full list

**Name: *Fragments of Joy*.** The Original TJoC's Menu theme.

**Name: *Survival*.** This is the ambiance that plays in the actual gameplay of TJoC.

**Name: *Reborn Delight*.** This is the menu theme of TJoC:R.

**Name: *Alternative Delight*.** Plays in TJoC:R. This is the audio of the opening cutscene

**Name: *Abandoned Hope*.** The menu music of TJoC:HE.

**Name: *Remnants of Joy (All Themes)*.** A suite of all of the versions of Remnants of Joy.

**Name: *Remnants of Joy (Base)*.** The base version of Remnants of Joy, when you have not selected a memory in the menu of The Joy of Creation: Story Mode. It consists of a ticking noise, like a clock.

**Name: *Remnants of Joy (Bedroom)*.** The song that plays when you open the door of The Bedroom . It seems to be played on chimes.

**Name: *Remnants of Joy (Living Room)*.** The song that plays when you open the door of The Living Room . It is unknown exactly what this is played on.

**Name: *Remnants of Joy (Office)*.** The song that plays when you open the door of The Office. It seems to be played on bells.

**Name: *Remnants of Joy (Basement)*.** The song that plays when you open the door of The Basement. It's baseline is played using a metal candlestick.

Name: *Remnants of Joy (Attic)*. **The song that plays when you open the door of The Attic. This is the most mastered version, being played mainly on piano but having a lot of background, including distant wind.**

**Name: *Ambiance (Bedroom)*.** The ambiance played in the Bedroom memory.

**Name: *Ambiance* *(Living Room)*.** The ambiance played in the Living Room memory.

**Name: *Ambiance (Attic)*.**The ambiance played in the Attic memory

**Name: *NIGHTMARE***

**Name: *Credits*.** The credits music of TJoC:SM.

**Name: *Humble Abode*.**The intro music for TJoC:SM.

**Name: *Spotted*.**The music of the chase scene in TJoC:SM. The 'chase scene' is presumably the opening cutscene of the Office memory.

**Name: *Hanover's Song*.**  If anyone is aware of where this plays, please put it here.

## Trivia

* There are other tracks in the games, but those were not composed by Nathan Hanover. The reason that this is the official soundtrack and why the other songs aren't in the official album or in a different album is because the vast majority of the songs were composed by Nathan Hanover.
	+ The songs that are not in the OST include several ambient tracks and the extras song.