CORVID Concept/Demo Track: Abandoned In Metal Demo v1
3The second CORVID demo track I'm releasing, and the first area theme! This is the theme for "Abandon Factoria" which is part of a trio of abandoned Technova facilities, these being Abandon Factoria, Abandon Laboratoria, and Abandon Hospitalia. The song names will follow suit, being Abandoned In Glass, and... uhh... idk for A. Hospitalia so I'll get back to you on that
Technically, Submechanical Fortress is also an abandoned Technova Facility, but there are also some gameplay differences in the Abandon areas. For instance, rather than finding the map selling npc, you simply have to find an old map laying around in a more hidden location. This trio also tends to have less npcs in general.
As I said in the video, I experimented with a "Safe Theme" in this one, meaning the theme that would play in the safe rooms - which function as your save points, fast travel, and defense against Corvid. However it feels a bit _too_ nice, y'know? I'll likely make a more standardized "Safe room theme", but if I do stick with this, the "Safe Mixes" will likely simply be more mellowed out version of the usual area theme, rather than "major-scale-ifying" the song like I did here.
Fun fact: you know that factory-esc snare sound that plays throughout the whole song? That took me AN HOUR TO FIND. I searched "factory piston sound" "piston snare sound" "steam burst sound" "factory steam sound" "steam sound" etc, and nothing like what I was looking for was showing up. Eventually under "steam" sound effects on a website I went all the way to almost the last page and I found it. I was too tired at that point to make the song, but after a couple hours I was ready.
The guitar was also somewhat hard to find... the Monster Guitar I usually use wasn't what I was looking for this time, so I had to find another one. It's hard to find good electric guitar vsts, but I think this one's excellent! I also got a new piano vst I like quite a bit, it's more mellow than my previous one and sounds really nice :)
So back to the other Abandon areas - I think that something I'm going to do is have the same melodies of the Guitar and Piano roughly the same between all of them, but have the songs have very different vibes. Abandon Laboratoria will likely be sci-fi-ish, and the Abandon Hospitalia is intended to be one of the creepiest areas in the game, so that one will likely be dark and dreary. Abandon Hospitalia is also where Dennis is located. I love Dennis :)
Speaking of boss fights (Dennis) I do have one planned for Abandon Factoria already. I don't want to completely spoil it, but lets just say it's kinda like the Steamboat Willie craze going around, except I thought of it before that was a thing, so I was doing it before it was cool (also it's not literally steamboat willie it's a different much cooler guy). There is a second bossfight I think _might_ be in this area, but I just thought of it today so idk if it's sticking around.
Anyways, I don't know how to end this so I guess I will with a question: how much do yall enjoy factory-themed areas in video games? What're some of your favorites? I guess my answer is I like them a lot, and my favorite is probably Peppibot Factory because, as much as people like to dunk on it, it's still a Pizza Tower level at the end of the day, and all of those are bangers!
0:00 - Base Mix (1)
1:16 - Action Mix
1:38 - Base Mix (2)
2:00 - Safe Mix (probably will be scrapped)
2:44 - Base Mix (3)
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