A World of Old starts with a simple lute, but quickly springs to life with with a full orchestral arrangement using the bells as a springboard. Works very well as an opening cutscene, it wastes no time setting up the stakes and gives the story a sort of urgency to starts the ball rolling.
Human Township really stood out, what started as a fairly simple town track evolved to become much more complex and engaging. Loved the chromaticism and how seamlessly you weaved in and out of different modes without missing a beat.
The Citadel Beckons is a beautiful and eclectic combination of ideas drawn from the rest of the soundtrack, it's an unusual but very satisfying to hear such a diversity of instruments combined together cohesively. My favourite track of the soundtrack, very satisfying climax.
How do you find programming SWAM instruments into a full soundtrack like this? I've been curious about them as they can be quite expressive but I wonder how much effort it takes for them to sound similar to that of a normal library.
Overall, a very well put together soundtrack, the simple and playful animations accompany the music well. I think you achieved your goal of a well themed submission, the wide breadth of instruments and ideas covered made this entire experience feel like quite a long but fulfilling journey. Creating such a detailed 17 minute soundtrack in a week is quite the feat, kudos.