Making 12 themesongs in 8 hours
Between doing the pixel graphics for our game I also had the honour of composing all the music and sounds for our wario-ware type entry Dubious Arcade
As it was a multi-game entry I ran into an interesting challenge: To make individual 10 second music themes for (almost) every game in the arcade.
My solution: Make an annoying tic-toc sound (as it also fits the timed-theme) and have that as the common theme throughout.
This pushed my output rate a lot as the tic-toc-sound was super-annoying over time when played by itself which meant I that I had to work to blend the tic-tocs into the music so I didn't have to notice it anymore. And as soon as a track was done I went back to the clean tic-toc sound and pushed me again to drown it out with a new song to keep my sanity.
A great whip/carrot and it pushed me to make 12 individual themesongs in different styles for the Jam!
Super happy to get to use a bunch of aucustic instruments as well! When heading to the locale where our team does the jam, I managed to carry with me a number of fun instruments ranging from a guitarlele to a mouth-harp to a Xiao-flute. And all got used! They also came in clutch for many of the sound effects in the game as well!
Had a great time and I'm already looking forward for the next jam!
Feel free to pop into our game and listen to the music! :musical_note:
Our entry: Dubious Arcade
