My submission for the ambience composition jam #2!
https://itch.io/jam/impressions-composing-jam-ambience-2

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/nova-607800663/sets/core_the_lost_city

So, a lost city theme! I had the idea to go for something fun (sonically speaking) and do a crunchy, arpeggio heavy take on 90s / 80s background music as the inspiration for this soundtrack. Hopefully it came through in the design of the ambience and the general atmosphere!

As far as the game idea, I would imagine this as a lidar/radar scanning game from a 1st person perspective where you play as a lil robot guy (with amnesia after a big crash in your drilling pod) exploring a few ancient and forgotten cities in a massive cave system beneath the surface of an alien plant. Yknow, think Journey to the Center of the Earth or something like that. The background percussive instruments are randomly determined using an LFO RNG thingy I learned how to make, leaning into the game having pseudorandom levels (like Darkwood) with monuments on your map being a way to orient yourself. No objective markers - you compare your map and your heading to find the way around using the monuments located on the primary map.

Not much more to it than that, hope you guys enjoy it! I forgot this jam was for one week so a lot of this is quick draft material, and I wanted 5 areas (not 3) but oh well XD.