My thoughts --
- Music is in .ogg so I had to open it in Audacity, the only program I had that could open it -- the stipulation was MP3 -- but that aside:
- It's got quite a prog rock take on an AOE theme and trad music, and the pulsing guitars in the background give it that drive, that sense of urgency about it.
- This has been really well mixed.
- The odd augmented G#s did their purpose well to remind me that this was not an AOE game, but in fact an invasion game, because otherwise this could have played in an otherwise more benign game with the instrument and melody choices (coming from a trad background, this wouldn't have been out of place in regular AOE were it not for the G#s.
All the FX were submitted as .ogg format as well, instead of the stipulated WAV. That aside --
- The battle cry felt like that of a regular crowd, but the horn sounding behind it was eerie and unworldly. Nice touch!
- The ghoul select FX could work under the right circumstances, but it could also feel like a cacophony of birds or a car alarm. ^_^;
- The UI error one actually gave me a bit of a jumpscare with how piercing its mids were. I don't know if this was intended, but either way, well done.
Well done on your submissions; all the best in the jam!