We’ve just finished the global game jam! We made a silly little puzzle game about saving the world by untangling Yggdrasil’s roots. There are 3 puzzles in the game and I wrote 3 variations on a main theme for each puzzle. I wanted to try writing in a meter I haven’t worked with much, so the piece is in 5/4! My inspiration for this piece was “somehow combine the Tales of Symphonia title screen with Bewitching Puzzles from PLvsAA.”
The game is fully playable in-browser here: https://otterbother.itch.io/earth-link
This is the 2nd intensity level theme. I made a playlist of the others here: https://soundcloud.com/arcanaxix/sets/earthlink-ost-global-game-jam-2023
I recorded myself on cello for this, which was a first for a game jam game. I’m really pleased with what I wrote under a 48-hour time limit while also contributing to the C# scripting.
[Also check out the other team’s game here: https://globalgamejam.org/2023/games/birthright-5 with 3 extremely good music tracks by @zerojanitor . That team went for a much more heartfelt narrative and created the start of something extremely ambitious which will hopefully be fleshed out in the future!]
