{"id":318,"date":"2018-12-09T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romainpennes.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2020-06-20T09:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T07:49:48","slug":"ludum-dare-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romainpennes.com\/en\/ludum-dare-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludum Dare 43"},"content":{"rendered":"

In december 2018, the Ludum Dare 43 (https:\/\/ldjam.com\/<\/a>) contest was on!
\nThis competition is held every 3 to 6 months and asks participants to develop a fully playable video game, in just a week-end.<\/p>\n

My friends invited me to participate and join their team. For this project, we were three: a game designer, a programmer and a music composer \/ sound designer(myself). My friends decided to create a 2D platform game in a cyberpunk universe. The game would have exploration and fighting phases, including a Boss fight at the end of the level.<\/p>\n

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My aim was to dive the player into a cyberpunk, yet fun universe, with a strong sound identity and consistency with all music tracks.
\nWe came up with the idea to have a main title theme as an accompaniement to exploration phases, and a second more energetic theme for the fighting scenes (including the boss encounter at the end of the game).
\nAfter some listening of diverse soundtracks in the hopes to get inspiration (OST from Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Portal, I Robot), I proposed to integrate as main instruments syunthtizers for melodic lines, indusctrial percussions for the rythm parts and aerial keyboard layers for the harmony.<\/p>\n

After a day of work, I had finised composing and mixing these two themes: “Chill Sad Theme” (exploration theme) and “Boss Fight Theme” (combat theme).
\nI especially took care in working to the loopable aspect of the tracks, so that they could be player over and over without anyone noticing the transition between the track ending and starting again.<\/p>\n

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Boss Fight Theme<\/strong>
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