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[ Key art · RELICSxyz Player boombox · Evade ]
Music Integration · Ongoing

Music inside
the horror.

Partner RELICSxyz × Monstercat
Property Evade (Inftech IP) — Top 25 Roblox horror
Role Studio of record · Integration + live events
Year 2025 — ongoing
The brief

Bring real music into the world — without breaking the horror.

RELICSxyz had built a player technology that streams music inside Roblox experiences. Monstercat had a catalog. We had Evade — one of the platform's top-25 horror experiences and a community of millions who'd already shown up to a world we built.

The opportunity was obvious: drop the RELICSxyz Player into Evade as a diegetic object — the boombox — and let players carry real, trending music into the game with them. The risk was just as obvious: horror lives on atmosphere, and the wrong music in the wrong moment kills it.

We led the integration end-to-end — engineering the boombox, layering on custom music emotes, and standing up an ongoing calendar of music-driven in-game events. Unlike most brand work, this wasn't a 10-day window — it's a permanent system inside Evade with a recurring event cadence on top.

The experience

A boombox, a wardrobe of emotes, and a calendar of events.

Three layers, one integration. Players carry the boombox, dress in music-themed cosmetics, and show up for recurring events — all inside the same Evade they already play.

"The boombox is the closest thing on Roblox to actual music ownership — and Inftech made it feel like part of the game, not a feature bolted on."
[ RELICSxyz · PARTNERSHIP LEAD ]
Behind the build

An integration. A wardrobe. A calendar.

[ Concept · boombox industrial design ]
01 / Integration
The boombox, engineered for Evade.

We took the RELICSxyz Player and rebuilt the surface around it — a physical boombox object that fits Evade's art direction, spatialized audio that respects horror tension, and a Spotify-trending feed that updates without us touching it. The tech is theirs. The feel is ours.

[ Animation reels · emote pack ]
02 / Cosmetics
Music emotes that read at distance.

A custom emote pack — dances, gestures, and idle loops — designed to be legible from across an Evade map. Players use them to signal taste, identify each other, and survive the round with a little more personality.

[ BTS · event ops calendar ]
03 / Live events
A recurring reason to come back.

Music nights, artist drops, themed lobbies — an ongoing event calendar layered on top of the permanent integration. Each event gives the partnership a heartbeat and gives the Evade community something to organize around.

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