Post-Mortem: Music

We're dividing our post-mortems into 3: music, art, programming (+ game design)

This time, we'll talk about music!

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Hello! I am lovely_dru ❤ I am the composer of music for Zombuddies. Some facts about me: programming is my day job and I have a lot of hobbies - most of which aren't really relevant to music writing. I do play some instruments though: piano, ukulele, a bit of guitar, and I've also been self studying bass.

I am very new at this music composition thing when Zombuddies started. For the game jam, I decided to just do loops instead of full music but now that we're trying to finish the full game, I'm trying to make longer compositions for a better experience. Music sets the atmosphere and the mood of the game and I don't want to ruin the players' immersion by doing it half-heartedly.

For Devtober, Wings asked me to make a halloween song for the main menu. We considered making a halloween version of the classroom music (For context, I didn't bother making a proper title for each song during the game jam and I stubbornly stuck with that practice for this project). We also considered making a halloween version of Maya's mini game song for the music. But in the end, I ended up making the halloween version of the original main menu music (see video for comparison or better yet, download the prototype and Zombuddies Halloween for the full version).

To make the halloween music, I simply changed some of the major chords into minor ones. I also removed the ukulele and added a violin. Since I'm not an expert at this, I actually just played around until it sounds okay -- which is my work process ever since I started doing this. In the future, I hope to be able to learn more and share more.

Do try Zombuddies Halloween! It's a fun and relaxing game. I hope you enjoy playing it.