Michelle's honor started playing video games at a pretty young age.

I grew up playing video games since I was probably five years old.

My dad bought me a super Nintendo and the two of us really loved this RPG called Secret of Mana.

And I feel like that was our major point of bonding.

After school she and her dad would play the game together in the family den.

I think that was the first time that I realized that games could be a real art form.

Zonner is better known as the front woman for the indie rock band Japanese breakfast.

And she says that in some ways video games were a major part of her exposure to music.

My parents weren't big music fans. Like I didn't grow up with that much music in the house.

And so I think the music that was very formative for me were these video games soundtracks

and anime soundtracks that I grew up listening to as a kid.

And I think a lot of that kind of sound made its way into my music in one way or another.

Soundtracks from games like Chrono Cross

or Final Fantasy

The type of music Zonner is used to writing has a hook and a chorus.

It's music you can sing along to.

But over the last few years she's been working on composing music that's very different from that

for a video game.

I really love the idea of pushing myself as a composer and a producer to take on something like this on my own.

Sable is the first video games Zonner has composed music for.

It follows a young hero traveling across a desert planet to return to her family of nomads.

It's a young person who's kind of on this precipice of adulthood that's pushed in maybe

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