Project Theta (RPG devlog) Chapter Six: Music and Research

Hello fellow humans,

I'll just say this real quick. Music is an art. To anyone who forgot that here's your reminder. How have I come to this realization you might ask? Because just like with pixel art I can waste 4 hours and get nothing but in the next 10 minutes make 5 different animations/songs.

• Rambling (Skip this for the actual update)

So what shall the king of dry humor and sarcasm bestow upon his suffering subjects this time? Distractions. What has been the moral of the last two days for me? Distractions. What have I succumbed to when I should be making music? Distractions. What do I call these distractions? Oh, just ways to 'research' music. I'm not playing Smash Bros Ultimate. No no no, I'm researching the music...right...researching. It also doesn't help that I always have access to 'research' since I use a computer to do stuff so...yeah. One minute I'm prepared to make the next top 10 music hit for my game, the next I'm in a 1 hour research tunnel of beating the crap out of CPU's with ink bombs and a paint roller. So the moral of the story is there is no way to win. You must succumb to the need of research and wait for the work to do itself. Easy.

• What Did You Do?

I did the music thing. Yeah I know that isn't very descriptive so here's more details. I used Chrome Music Lab to make the overworld theme(a.wav) and tutorial theme(aa.wav). I will likely be redoing the tutorial theme because it needs work. Overall the music is coming along okay. I will likely have a decent track done by the time I need it. I also did my first devstream today in our discord. I will likely be doing them all throughout development for coding (cause coding is fun). Feel free to join our discord to watch (link below). So yeah I have made a few tunes so far and hope I can make a few more tomorrow. Coding wise I have movement set up for the players and will be working on health and attack player data.

• So What's the Plan Now?

Good question... I think I will be making music tomorrow so I can get at least 3 tunes done. I will also do a tiny bit of coding and will try to do a devstream as well. Basically I'm focusing on music and code tomorrow. We'll see how that goes though.

• Schedule

July 13 - 31 Work on Music + SFX

August 14 Code Done

August 15 - 20 Beta Launch *

August 20 - 31 Polish

August 31 Release

*So a note real quick. Some of you may notice that I've added a 5 day range to the Beta launch. This is because the time that I go back home is a bit blurry right now. I may get back by the 15 but if not I'll try my hardest to have the Beta by the 20th. Sorry for any dreams that have been crushed by this possibility.

• Music

In the files attached below (Open to Feedback!)

• Links to stuff

Last devlog here

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