Description
I wanted to keep a very real sound to the soundtrak, so I went with an orchestral feel.

I imagine "María" to be a platformer RPG, set underwater.
The story is set in this massive underwater dome structure with many branching paths, that lead María to everyone's personal world, encapsulated inside other domes that expand ad infinitum.
Places of wonder, thriving with life, or at least before Midas attacks.
Midas is a human that wasn't satisfied with his world, He seeks more, so he will take more.
María is tasked with stopping Midas from taking over more worlds.

María, even though not revealed, is related to Midas, and this is the most important thing I wanted to convey with the music.
Which, I'll talk about now.

Midas, being older, and having a clear goal and purpose, has a theme, a theme that invokes war, a battle theme.
His theme has 3 leitmotifs: Midas' world; which is explored in the song with the same name. Golden touch; which is explored in the song named "María's Golden Touch". And finally Parent; which is explored in both "María's Music Box" and "María's Vision"

That is the biggest correlation between all of them, but there is one more leitmotif I want to talk about.

In the song "María's Golden Touch" which is set to happen AFTER fighting Midas, Midas and María have a heart to heart talk, that is pretty much one sided and only Midas is talking, but María is also having some input, not by speaking, but in the song:
The Leitmotif "This World's Will" plays, which is shared between "Inside my world", title theme of the game, and said song, this leitmotif represents the relationship between María and the sake of the world, and it is only played when María's goal is accomplished.

The only song separated from any links, is "Walking Through The Waterway" as this is a song meant for everyone's world-way, hence the name, So it lacks any leitmotifs

Whew! That out of the way, I used FL Studio 21 to make every single track, and for the most part I used kontakt libraries like Noire Pure, String Selection 2, and other orchestral libraries.

And that's pretty much it about the making of this OST!

Message from the artist
I'm gonna keep it short, I don't know how I finished this on time.

Theme

Inside my world

Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
Alrighty, so, I went with both the picture and the text themes, the picture is a bit obvious, the main character of the game "María" is pretty much the one showed in the picture, I loved the design but I didn't want to use the picture theme as my cover art, so I asked a friend of mine (enoi on most socials) if he could draw me a cover art and he gladly did so, you can check it out in my submission :)
Music wise the picture theme gave me the idea to make most tracks sound as if they were underwater, adding lots of reverb, equalizing it a bit, you know the drill.
As for the text theme I actually based the story around that, the fact that the text was "Inside my world" meant, for me at least, that everyone had a world, and I loved that concept, a universe where everyone lived happily in the world THEY created.

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://on.soundcloud.com/xSj1rKbkUKhKTUGj8

Number of tracks
7

Genre

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (CC BY-NC)

Any non-commercial project