I did start the other themes prior as I have weekend family commitments, however, I did upload to SoundCloud piano sketches so as not to forget my ideas on those themes, and started orchestrating when the jam starts, and just replaced the tracks in SoundCloud. It's just unfortunate it still says 5 days ago even though I only uploaded the sketch.
I got this idea from the guideline:
| Q: Can I use this jam to finish/submit an existing project I already started on? | A: No, it is required that all participants start from scratch for this jam. If you really want to start off from an existing project anyway, please make sure it is at least less than 30% finished as it wouldn’t be fair to other participants otherwise. |
To adhere to the 48 hours limit, I did set a challenge for myself as a test/experiment to spend a max of 10 hours composing the 4 tracks. I did the following:
- Assassins Theme (2 hours incl. mixing, 15 mins sketching upfront before the jam)
- Barbarians Theme (2 hours incl. mixing, 15 mins sketching upfront before the jam)
- Wizards Theme (2 hours incl. mixing, 15 mins sketching upfront before the jam)
- Main Theme (4 hours incl. mixing)
I hope that this is fair to all the other participants. I'd love all tracks to be considered for the rating, as I have poured as much effort as possible with the limited time I had during the weekend. However, I'll double-check with the jam organisers and get their thoughts :)
And thank you for your feedback :)
P.S.: Actually I'm planning to continue to write 3 more themes (for Knights, Priests, and Archers), but since the jam is over, I will do these after taking a short break from composing for a week. I'd like to continue the same challenge of 2 hours max for each track.