Alton Towers Resort · Scarefest· 2023 — 2024
Daz Games: Panic Reloaded
The score for Scarefest's RFID-driven scare maze.
- Composer
Scare attractions · 24 events
Music for Halloween and scare attractions.
Maze scores, scare-zone beds and the park-wide re-score that turns a family attraction into a horror event for six weeks. Nick has written for Halloween every season since 2015.
What it covers
Horror is Nick's speciality.
- Scare maze scores
- A score for a walkthrough attraction, built to be heard in fragments, in the dark, by people moving at a speed nobody can predict.Sub Species: The End Games case study
- Scare zone beds
- Long-form outdoor audio with no fixed start point, designed to loop invisibly for eight hours without a listener ever hearing it begin again.Scarefest case study
- Park-wide seasonal re-scores
- Not one commission but a whole park after dark — every coaster station, every dispatch and every island rewritten for October.Fright Nights case study
- Event opening and close
- The cue that moves tens of thousands of people towards an exit at the end of the night without breaking the atmosphere they came for.Fright Nights case study
- Halloween finales
- A full event spine — street music that shifts the park's daytime identity into something colder, individual maze scores and a closing show.Oakwood After Dark case study
- Scare attractions outside the big parks
- The same craft at farm-attraction and pier scale, where the budget is smaller and the audio is doing proportionally more of the work.ScreamFest Burton case study
How it is written
The part that is not obvious from the outside.
The work
24 projects you can hear.
Hear it
The work, playing.
Commission
Tell Nick what it is and when it opens.
The most useful first message says what the attraction is, roughly how long the audio needs to run and the date it has to be finished by.