So one thing I always try and do is come up with some original music for my Ludum Dare entries and I dare say some of them work better than others.<\/p>\n
Original Music always brings out the best in even the worst games. Personally, I use Caustic for Android<\/a> partly because I’m used to it now, and partly because if I do <\/em>need to step away from development I can go somewhere completely different and still work on something to do with the game.<\/p>\n One of the earliest pieces of code I wrote in Ludum Dare was a Background Music script<\/a> for Unity that played a track from the start then looped it from a fixed timecode when it reached the end. ie, a track might have a 4 second intro before getting into the main song, so at the end it’d loop back to the 4 second mark and continue.<\/p>\n It’s not perfect, and there is probably a much better way of doing things, but it does what I need it do to (and one of the cool features is it lets you control its volume through PlayerPrefs so you can even tie it into an options screen)<\/p>\n The music I’ve made, over the last 4 Ludum Dares, well I’ve compiled them all (for better or worse) on soundcloud.<\/a><\/p>\n The first LD game I made music for was as much an experiment in music as it was in making a game. I am Sigma<\/a> (Theme: Entire game on one Screen) played more or less of the music the deeper into the game you went, eventually playing every layer on the very last screen.<\/p>\n For my MiniLD game Behind the Screens<\/a> (whose theme was ‘Pong’) I made two tracks with similar rhythms but different instruments to produce two different tones. One quite laid back and subtle, the other 8-bit style chiptune.<\/p>\n The less said about the development of Caber Toss<\/a> (An Unconventional Weapon) the better, but it involved suffering, sleep deprived, through a birthday party with no less than 14 under 8’s. The music for this one was made in an hour, shortly before submitting the game.<\/p>\n