Hahah lovely and with real kid actor?? It gives a nice touch too. I enjoyed it a lot, thanks and congratulations on the submission!!
If it helps, as a suggestion: music could have two states. One for exploring/walking, another one for "combat". Or maybe the same piece of music, with two different layers so the rhythm is continuous. Oh and maybe a third one when you run into the energy/courage items. Yeah, as audio person I look into those details :-P I hope it helps!
Haha thanks! The kid was really excited to be part of a game, and while I've never met him myself, his dad is a friend of mine (and a former audio engineer who was able to clean up the audio a bit for me)! I was really impressed with the results!
As for the different music states, this was a case of a musician who didn't get a chance to do anything until the last two days of the jam, and she was doing it in her spare time, so I didn't want her doing more than one piece of music, or anything more complex than "give me a looping song" since she'd never worked on a game before. I was also kinda running on fumes at that point, and just wanted to get the music into the game and get it out the door. If I had more time, I'd probably have done something like that.
I totally understand! Yeah, jams can be very tricky sometimes I agree. And we all have a life aside too, right? Hehe.
It's awesome to have real voices in a game, it adds some special warmth. Have you thought on adding the game in IMDB site? Just to credit the kid there, as a reward maybe. I know there was a nice discussion over this topic in one of the Discord channels of this jam (tell me if I went too far, sorry if I did)
