First of all, thank you so much to everyone who has played The Assessment, and for all the kind words about the game and my music! :heart:

I wasn't supposed to participate this LD at all. Just a week before, I said no. I was worrying a lot. The last time I made a soundtrack for LD I made Blackout. I just didn't think I could top it. I thought that score was the peak of my career. I still do. But I couldn't let my team down, and they didn't have a replacement, so I sort of half-agreed to it. But then came Friday and I was asked to work late on Saturday, since my job requires people working weekends. (Just for context, I live in Sweden so the jam started at 3 am on Saturday.) So now I only had Sunday and Monday left. But I had already planned a day trip out of town on Monday, which I couldn't cancel. Which means I now only had Sunday and a few leftover hours on Monday to do everything.

Anyway, I did what I could with the time I had and am quite pleased with most of it. Only thing I'm not happy with is the cutscene music, which was rushed before submission, as well as the win fanfare which was just a placeholder.

When I started composing I didn't really have a clear vision, I just thought "I'll make some whacky music with some cheap-sounding sounds," and I did a few tracks in that style. I knew we had to have a win and a lose fanfare, so I thought "wouldn't it be funny if they were overly dramatic?" I did the lose fanfare first, which was based on an unused main theme I composed quickly before work on Friday. There's no recording of it so I can't share it, sorry. I was pretty happy with it, and it made the game more insane. As I said before, the win fanfare is basically just a work in progress. I never got around to finish it because other stuff had to be done which had higher priority.

Last pieces of the puzzle were the title theme and the cutscene underscore which were made in the last 4 hours before submission. I originally had planned to do more sound effects, especially for the cutscene, but alas, there was no time.

All in all, it was a fun LD, and I'm glad I participated. I put together a short video featuring the very first music track I did and the second-to-last one. Enjoy, and thanks for reading!

https://youtu.be/ITdP8hQT8kY