It's Dangerous to Go Alone, Better Bring the Heat

This is a submission for "OST Minigame Jam #1" wherein participants are tasked with creating a song adhering to the theme "Hero's Journey" and fulfilling an optional challenge of implementing a whole tone scale somewhere within the piece. This song implements the optional challenge in measures 1-4 and 22-25.

I began production of this piece by loading up the Korg M1 VST to quickly hear what a whole tone arpeggio would sound like and it reminded me a bit of the item discovery theme from Zelda Ocarina of Time, so I decided to take this song in the direction of a dungeon exploration tune. On a whim, I decided to stick to the M1 rompler for all instruments, so while considering which drum kit to use I spotted the HipHop Kit preset and instantly decided to go outside my comfort zone and take the song in a hiphoppy direction. I enhanced the dungeon ambience with various sound effects found in the rompler.

DAW: FL Studio

VSTs: Korg M1

 Plugins: Waves Magma Tubes Stereo, Waves Magma Channel Strip, Guitar Rig 6, Maximus, Fruity Parametric EQ, Limiter, Balance, and Compressor.