I had come up with the concept about a month ago and l knew I was gonna do it during the jam but my plan was to have 4 different endings that all had the same melody but with aspects from the different path.
When the theme came out I was like “crap I gotta find a way to make it a palindrome!”
That’s how the 1-2-4-2-1 pathing ended up happening.
the palindrome aspect is meant to be portrayed by the fact that whether you start at the end or the beginning the paths are practically the same and it was just for simplicity I made it so there was a simple starting point.
Definitely not what I had in mind a month ago but I was really happy with the end result!