Description
« One summer night, you and your friends decide to tell each other some ghost stories around a campfire in the mountains wilderness. Select carefully your tales to scare everyone and be the most frightening of the night ! »

For this OST Composing Jam, I decided to do a bunch of littles tracks for a « party-game » concept. At their turn, a player choose a horror story from a randomized collection. Each one leads to a mini-game where the players are trapped and must survive in a limited time. Were they to be harmed, their ‘fear’ score would increase (if fast enough, it’s possible to lower your score). At the end of some custom number of turns, the least frightened player wins.

I was inspired to go 8-bit style by horror-themed games like castlevania, organ trail or world of horror. It was really fun to experiment with the sounds of the magical8bit plugin. All the tracks are made to be short and loopable, hence the sudden cut at the end. Doesn't seam to work that well in soundcloud though...

The graphics of this game would also be retro-ish, but I didn’t have any idea for the project photo so here’s a bad photomontage of the moon (personnal photo) on top of a campfire (free image from vecteesy).


Description of the soundstrack

Game menu theme – Tales of the campfire
Customise the party settings and you’re ready to go. What a horrible night to have some fun.

Story selection theme – Cracklings’ echoes
This theme would play between mini-games, when a player is selecting the next story. I really love the silences there.

Story theme – Chased by a beast
The player selecting this story fearfully transforms into a monstruous rotted wolf-horse thing chasing the other players. Truly a wild card to play.

Story theme – Last chance ritual
All players must perform the ritual to banish evil. Any wrong step raise their own fear in panick. If the ritual fails, god knows what might joins them…

Story theme – Phantom phone call
Each player must decipher the dead’s warning obtained from beyond to avoid the catastrophe before it’s too late.

Story theme – Shadows of the foggy forest
All the players get lost in a maze-like forest covered in a strange moving mist blocking your view. Be careful, some paths only lead to fearful encounters…

Story theme – Twisted hide and seek
The player selecting this story plays as a serial killer hunting down the others players and avoiding their desperate traps in an abandoned mansion.

Story theme – Woman in the midnight mirror
All the players must repare their broken mirror to free the lonely ghostly figure trapped there. Don’t worry, if you’re not swift enough, you will rejoin her.

Victory theme – One summer all nighter
This theme would play on a player’s victory. Nightmares or not, such night is doomed sleepless.

Message from the artist
Thank you for listening !

Theme

How does it fit the theme?
The game is set during one summer night.

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/yuutopiano/sets/tales-of-the-campfire

Number of tracks
9

Genre

Soundtrack use permission