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Trials of Midnight

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Development

Role: Composer, Sound Designer

Engine: Unity

Duration: 2 1/2 Months

Game Info

Genre: Strategy

Platform: iOS/Android

Status: Complete

Team Size: 7

Project Summary

Trials of Midnight is a deckbuilder roguelike where you take on the role of Midnight, a lost nightmare trying to escape a child's dream world. You can defeat enemies to gain resources, and progress deeper in the dream world to unlock new minions, face stronger enemies, and work your way through uniquely designed levels to battle your way through legions of dream protectors as you escape the dream world.

My Contribution

This game was such a pleasure and a struggle to work on all at once. Finding a style that fits the very unique gameplay and art was quite the challenge. I realized that after my fourth or fifth draft to the team that my initial approach of having a melodically driven main theme was not going to work, so I took a textured based approach which stuck with the team almost immediately when I sent the draft. I got to explore an area of non-functional harmony that got me more excited than it really should have- having a mediant motion between two minor chords in a non-diatonic setting after a couple revisions soon became the two chords that defined the game.

Another struggle I faced was when the team gave me a recommendation that they did not want anything in the music to stand out too much and to be more ambient. At first I thought this meant a more sound design approach, but I couldn't find anything that I liked that would fit the needs for this game. I decided to strip away everything that I was comfortable with and go with the exact opposite of what I'm used to doing- take away all the instruments, focus on atmosphere, and keep the melody as simple as it can be. This took me quite a few tries to reach, but the soundtrack got to the point where both the team and I were quite satisfied with.

Trials of Midnight Main ThemeCalvin Tillman
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Trials of Midnight In Game ThemeCalvin Tillman
00:00 / 00:41
Trials of Midnight Loot ThemeCalvin Tillman
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