{"author_link":"\/users\/ao-85","author_name":"AO-85","author_uid":"ao-85","comments":[],"epoch":1777719028,"event":"LD59","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":432376,"likes":8,"metadata":{"p_key":"96856","p_author":"AO-85","p_authorkey":"1424636","p_urlkey":"312503","p_title":"Music written in code.","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD59","p_time":"1777719028","p_likes":"8","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1424636","us_name":"AO-85","us_username":"ao-85","event_start":"1776470400","event_key":"113","event_name":"Ludum Dare 59"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD59","removed_author":false},"_superparent":424249,"_trust":1,"author":424636,"body":"Thanks to everyone who voted and supported us! https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/wavelatro\n\nThis 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...\nBut the most interesting part happened closer to the end.\n\n![ezgif-4e6da1530ebef2a9-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter (1).gif](\/\/\/raw\/cba\/76\/z\/73049.gif)\n\nWith just a few hours left before the deadline, the game was critically missing sound.\nMy old hobby suddenly became a lifesaver.\n\nThe thing is, I don\u2019t compose music in the traditional sense. I program it in Sonic Pi (there are browser-based alternatives too). It\u2019s an application\/tool where you can write music using commands. It sounds like torture, but once you get into it, it\u2019s 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\u2019ve been tinkering with it for a long time, creating 8-16 bit tracks from time to time, just for myself, for fun.\n\n![Screenshot_\u0444\u04322.png](\/\/\/raw\/cba\/76\/z\/73048.png)\n\nThe 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.","comments":0,"created":"2026-05-02T10:43:53Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":432376,"love":8,"love-timestamp":"2026-05-03T05:46:01Z","meta":[],"modified":"2026-05-03T05:46:01Z","name":"Music written in code.","node-timestamp":"2026-05-02T10:51:17Z","parent":425720,"parents":[1,5,9,424249,425720],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/wavelatro\/72-hours-9-hours-of-sleep-and-music-written-in-code","published":"2026-05-02T10:50:28Z","scope":"public","slug":"72-hours-9-hours-of-sleep-and-music-written-in-code","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1373819},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"432376","n_urlkey":"312503","n_parent":"425720","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/wavelatro\/72-hours-9-hours-of-sleep-and-music-written-in-code","n_slug":"72-hours-9-hours-of-sleep-and-mu","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"424636","n_created":"1777718633","n_modified":"1777787161","n_version":"1373819","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/wavelatro\/72-hours-9-hours-of-sleep-and-music-written-in-code","text":"Thanks to everyone who voted and supported us! https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/wavelatro\n\nThis 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...\nBut the most interesting part happened closer to the end.\n\n![ezgif-4e6da1530ebef2a9-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter (1).gif](\/\/\/raw\/cba\/76\/z\/73049.gif)\n\nWith just a few hours left before the deadline, the game was critically missing sound.\nMy old hobby suddenly became a lifesaver.\n\nThe thing is, I don\u2019t compose music in the traditional sense. I program it in Sonic Pi (there are browser-based alternatives too). It\u2019s an application\/tool where you can write music using commands. It sounds like torture, but once you get into it, it\u2019s 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\u2019ve been tinkering with it for a long time, creating 8-16 bit tracks from time to time, just for myself, for fun.\n\n![Screenshot_\u0444\u04322.png](\/\/\/raw\/cba\/76\/z\/73048.png)\n\nThe 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.","title":"Music written in code.","wayback_source":[]}