Hello, it's Daniel Geber here, composer and sound designer for the game Glad Gladiators, made at Ludum Dare #44. I'm here to talk about the game's music! :D

The first song is called "Praise to Me". It's the intro and title screen theme. With this song I wanted to evoke what it's like to be in the presence of a pagan goddess. I used some epic percussion and choir to make it happen. The song is kinda stagnant, and it grows it's epicness by adding more instruments and counterpoint to the arrangement. I liked the composition aspect results, but I think the mixing aspect could be better (specially the drums).

The second song is called "Fight for Me". It's the gameplay song. I made this song in one hour, so it's not the way I wanted it to be. If I had more time, I would shurely remake the whole song with something totally different. As I had poor time, I used some tricks to compose the entire song faster. First of all, I got the bass line from Dead Cells' "Prisioner's Awakening" song (it's my favorite song in the entire soundtrack) and also a little bit of the sound pallete (just the guitars, and some orchestra instruments). So I made a quick melody that stands out for the whole track and then added a freaking drum kit LOL. It's kinda comical, it's not the instrument that would first come up to your head when you think about an epic gladiator battle with a pagan goddess, but I didn't have time to make another epic war drums arrangement, so I decided to go with a regular drum kit. It worked.

So this is it. You can listen to the soundtrack here. If you have any flam, please comment below.

And don't forget to P L A Y - T H E - G A M E ! ! ! 😋