Necro Swarm Pitch OST

This is my entry to the Indie Game Academy's June 2023 audio jam. The submissions here are based on a pitch for a game called Necro Swarm, an RTS where you are the shambling horde, and you have to manage resources and magic to invade places and fulfill a necromancer's ambitions to take over the world.

I spent upwards of two days on this track -- the dread of night -- the "main theme" for the wooded areas, I wanted this to be one of the first, if not the first outright area theme for Necro Swarm, I wanted it to be the theme that stayed in players' minds. Other similarly whimsical elements exist in games that I saw were based on the artstyles referenced in the document: games like Simon the Sorcerer, Monkey Island... I wanted it to be equal amounts of seriousness and levity. The xylophone punctuating that track was my way to allude to moving bones.

The FX are varied and all over the place. I am decidedly not a sound designer; this is probably my first time setting out to do FX. I list them below:

• For the first one, Heavy Stepping, I imagined this playing softly, the sound of undead feet trampling in wet ground, marshy waters, or other such difficult terrain.
• For the second one, Unit Lost, I imagined it being like Sid Meier's Pirates and their land-based battle system, where if a battalion was lost, there'd be a sound effect. Well, I imagined it to be a single important unit like a tower, or a blighted plant through which the curse could spread; if such an item of importance was lost, that sound effect would play.
• For the third and final sound effect, Spellcasting, it's exactly as it says on the tin. This was my attempt at making an auditory representation of magic or fairy dust or other such things.