How many tracks did you submit?
6

If you uploaded to a streaming platform, please drop the link here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9QmM_ZAyRE

Explain your hypothetical game concept & how you interpreted the theme!
Simply, it is a 2d platformer where you play as a frog traversing the landscape riddled with infected creatures. You can switch characters to others you have met along the way. However, I rob the players of this important element in the finale of this first climax as a form of cruelty and to show that in the end, you can't fight this malevolent force and they can only run from it. It has elements of 2.5d in it with the background behind being traversible. Think octopath traveller. I interpreted the theme as needing not a necessarily good ending. I left it with a cliffhanger in the story.

What genre is your soundtrack?
Orchestral

Anything else you'd like to add?
I interpreted a hero's journey being one of struggle to bring hope to some state that people that care about are in. So I brainstormed some ideas for what this journey could be. I settled with a classic Jungle adventure. Thesa, a word I found to mean 'stumbling' in another language is the name I chose for the main character. I structured a soundtrack with just 6 songs including a game over segment to suit the story mountain. With things quickly settling and being left off with some end.

I did end it with a cliffhanger if you were to read the subtitles of the youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9QmM_ZAyRE

I used bandlab which is not the ideal DAW but it was the only one I was comfortable with as I have been using it for 3 years before discovering other DAWs to use. Seeing the time limit of this challenge, I stuck with it. The instruments were those I could find in an orchestral arrangement. I used keys that would be found in other jungle themes and games. I kept some motifs across the soundtrack to suit the jungle vibe.

When I finished it, I wanted to give the soundtrack some story and I do not wish to make viewers read a chunk of text in a website as they listen to downloaded songs, so I decided to leave it on subtitles in the video, allowing people to just watch the lines play out as more of the plot is unveiled through the video.