Description
First things first, I accidentally gated myself into a 24-30 hour period for this project. I'm happy that it's not my best work, but I am happy that I believe it tells the story I wished to tell.

That of the character named Echo. Echo has become victim of a foul curse running it's course through her world. A curse that inflicts a "Forever-sleep" onto those it infects.

Echo, being the latest victim of said curse, must explore her memories, subconcious, and dreams and solve puzzles in an attempt to return to the Waking-World. Each Track serves as a point within the story,

Inside my World explores the vibrant and whimsical world in where Echo lives, every day she explores and ventures around the Island Sanctuary in where she lives. The soft pads and synth lead of the track represent the peace within her world, and the harsh obnoxious trumpets represent her personality and desires for fun and adventure clashing with the upcoming disaster the world must faced.

Inside Phantazia works as a meta track, setting up for the players that this game takes place within the same world and timeline as Phantazia-64, another "fake" game I developed a soundtrack for, using the exact same software, soundfonts, and taken from the same inspirations. This track takes the joyous tones of track 1 and twist them into a sort of ominous melody as Echo enters her Forever sleep

Inside my Guilt is Echo coming to terms with waking up in her own mind, a world in which she is the creator. She discovers the world within her mind, dreams, and subconcious is full of mystery and puzzles alike, and that if she wishes to escape she must solve her way through as many of them as possible.

The new three tracks follow the levels of the game. Inside my World is imaginged as a platform puzzler game with no combat. Inside my Fear explores Echo's fear of the world outside the Island, the ancient temples scattered around it's dense forest, and life after death. She must solve puzzles and avoid traps in a chamber of her subconcious which serves as a large sphere with inverting surfaces. To escape, she must create a path in a sort of Rubix Cube style puzzle, turning the dead outside of the sphere around and into the lively orb that is the Island home she wishes to return to.

Inside my Bravery is a trial of determination and willpower. Echo must navigate a river on a small canoe she remembers from her childhood. Memories of her being seperated from her family on the canoe but eventually finding them inspire her to push through the laughing fog and shadow creatures that watch her from the shoreline.

Inside my Innocence is the theme for a puzzle in where Echo must convince Death herself that she deserves to wake up, in which Death explains to her the purpose of the curse, the presence of comfort in the afterlife, and that we do not choose our fate. After proving herself worthy of a bargin with Death by solving "Death's Design" (A series of the games most challenging puzzles) Echo is given the choice. Wake up, or Rest in Peace.

Inside my Comfort is Echo accepting fate as it is. Believing to have waken up from her Forever-Sleep on the beaches she remembers fondly from Childhood. In her confusion, she discovered she has slept through much of life and is now a young adult. She looks over her shoulders to see her village has grown, and she smiles as she hears the joy and laughter of other humans for the first time in what has felt like weeks.

Inside my Heart is Echo in an ending in where she believes her waking up upon the beach is a fair illusion at the hands of Lady Death. Surely she cannot have just "Grown up" while asleep. She hears the laughter of the village, and sees the world around her only changed for the better, deep down she fears the worst but smiles ready to accept that she truly is, and always will be, Inside her World.

Theme

Inside my world

Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
The titling of each track, as well as each segment of the "game" representing Echo travelling throughout a different paret of a world created within her subconcious.

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/theturtlebox/sets/24-hour-ost-jam-7?si=3d65d8f3b5124ffb89fa80b1d3482675&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Number of tracks
8

Genre

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (CC BY)

Any project