A Mountain Of Worlds

My submission for the March 2022 OST Composition Jam Submission Description:

The game idea that these songs were based on is some kind of pixel art-based Adventure Platformer. Along with the pixel art style, the music is a form of the Chiptune genre. In this hypothetical game, the goal was to traverse across the lands to reach the mountain in which lies a gateway to an alternate realm very similar to the real world realm, but here the dead roam free.

Reaching the mountain and entering the realm is what I based the 2 songs on. The first song for the theme that plays while traversing the mountain in the real realm, the second song for the theme that plays while traversing the mountain in the dead realm.

I used Fruity Loops Studio (FL Studio) as my DAW. I knew a few things going in: I would be making one song normally and the next song would be similar but more chaotic and "inverted" to represent the hellish other world, the songs would have to loop as the player would be listening to them until they get to the next area, and there would be a part in the second song that if played in reverse, would reveal the same melody as the first song. That ended up being put at around the 1:59 mark. Also, the motif at 2:18 of both songs would be the hypothetical main motif of the game.