Be prepared to see this screen a lot.

Game available here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=41747

It was a lot of fun working on this even with the limited time. Since the Kickstarter campaign for Cavern Kings  is still going on, I tried to get most of the audio work done in the first 24 hours so I wouldn’t neglect my work there and also be able to take care of new tasks here if needed. Vine and Mr. P had a concise vision of what they wanted in the game and gave me an asset list in a matter of hours. While they worked on the game’s art and programming, I started working on the BGM track.

It took 3h48m to get to this. The track and the SFX were all done in FL Studio, mostly using the native plugin 3xOSC, which I’ve grown to love, with FamiTracker pulses. I have been wanting to make  synthpop-influenced music for games for a long time, but didn’t want to stray away from Cavern Kings’ OST either because, well, gotta love chiptune arps.

Mr. P wasn’t used to the tool but learned it really fast on the go, and this was a fun experience for all of us, except for a bug (identified and corrected within an hour of the submission), so we don’t rule out continuing to work on this game in the future.

Cosmos Kings

Art by Vine
Music by Ryuno
Programming by Mr. P

Tags: LD30, Ludum Dare, music, post-mortem, postmortem