Thanks to everyone who voted and supported us! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/wavelatro

This was my first jam, and I had no idea how fun yet brutal it would be. 72 hours of development, only 9 hours of sleep in total... wow... But the most interesting part happened closer to the end.

With just a few hours left before the deadline, the game was critically missing sound. My old hobby suddenly became a lifesaver.

The thing is, I don’t compose music in the traditional sense. I program it in Sonic Pi (there are browser-based alternatives too). It’s an application/tool where you can write music using commands. It sounds like torture, but once you get into it, it’s actually quite simple plus there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube, a couple of lines of code, a bit of logic, and you already have a melody playing. I’ve been tinkering with it for a long time, creating 8-16 bit tracks from time to time, just for myself, for fun.

The funniest part is that I also made the sound effects in Sonic Pi. So literally the entire audio part of the project was created in this app, where I usually just relax and experiment with pixel beats. In the end, what I considered a useless hobby saved the entire audio component of the jam during the final hours before submission.