5 years after its release, Shift Trap receives an enhanced edition! This great cart by Sol was held back by sound design that wasn't on the same level of polish as the rest of the game. I loved this game and wanted to tighten it up just a little bit to create the definitive version.
SHIFTTRAP - Enhanced improvements:
• Entirely new music composed by me!
• Removed the constant banging of the gears in the background.
• More pleasing sound effects.
• Added difficulty toggles in the menu between normal and hard.
• Cutscene timing and writing was tweaked to be more concise.
• Several new sound effects added to cutscenes.
• Three levels were tweaked slightly to improve the difficulty curve (levels 2, 11 and 21)
• The duration of the hourglass energy was increased to make it more useable and fun.
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Return of the SLIMEPIRES! Music Mod
This is a sound mod that adds music and changes a couple of the SFX (namely the gun sound)
What the mod changes:
- Adds a polished music track
- Adds music toggle in main menu
- Changes gun sound to be more like a sci-fi blaster
- Changes explosive barrel sound to sound a bit echoey to convey liquid inside the barrel
- Changes transformation ticking sound with a "dampen" that tones it down a touch
That's it!
This music has been in my head for several days now and I watched several hours of gruber music videos to grasp some good composition theory. I made the track pretty long so as not to get too familiar too quickly because the game is lengthy for a PICO-8 game. I tried to eliminate all clipping but it's very tricky for this type of game where there's so many SFX calls constantly. I still think it sounds very enjoyable. Hopefully you enjoy it too!
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