A downloadable soundtrack

My project is called Synthetic Heaven, the palindrome theme gave me the ideas of perfect symmetry and loops, the idea I came with was a JRPG game where you are in a false digital heaven, forced to loop the same day over and over again. "God" reboots the server or keeps playing and old save file due to fear of change. He essentially has time manipulation powers. You eventually realize you are living the same day over and over when you get clues from your past self and the perfect heaven appeared too perfect and disturbing. You recruit a party of your friends and rebel against the god of this world to break free of the cycle and return to the real world. 

Theme 1 is the beginning of the game, where you enter the world. At first glance it's perfect and beautiful, you'd never want to leave. It has elements of palindromes in the melodies and accompaniments. if it was a real game, I would change the track to be distorted a little more every time a new cycle would start, amplifying the unease of the false Eden. Normal

0:00-1:39

Theme 2 is the basic battle theme, fighting enemies, guards, and minions. It has the same notes on both ends and has a reflection point.  Hard

1:39-3:00

Theme 3 is "God's" theme. The cinematic and the battle track. This one is designed to sound the same, forwards and backwards. There are reversed instruments on both ends to give the feeling of fighting against the reversal and manipulation of time.  Super challenge

3:00-

The cello represents the protagonist and the organ/piano represents "God". The synths and the synthesized instruments represent the digital and fake nature of the world. The protagonist's theme is sprinkled in and played around with in all the tracks. 

This is my first game jam, it was very fun! I'd love to participate in the future. Any comments or criticisms are appreciated. 

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SyntheticHeavenFINAL.wav 56 MB
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Screenshot 2024-10-19 195549.png 589 kB

Install instructions

just a WAV file :)

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