Mixtape , developer Beethoven & Dinosaur’s musical coming-of-age narrative adventure, is set to a curated playlist of mood-setting songs. When I sat down with creative director Johnny Galvatron and producer Woody Woodward, they said that the team picked songs they wanted to feature and worked backward, starting with the opening song, “That’s Good” by new wave band DEVO.  With music being so central to the game, I had to ask Galvatron and Woodward why they chose the songs they did, and we ended up going track-by-track across the entire game. Not every song had a huge story attached, and some were sought out to fill in gaps in the story, but by and large, Galvatron says protagonist Stacy Rockford’s titular mixtape is his “greatest hits of all time,” and that the game was built around the playlist. If you’re worried about spoilers, come back later, but for everyone else, here’s a breakdown of the team’s thinking behind each song and their accompanying setpieces.…