The Secret Games Company is a small, independent game development team based in London, UK. Our new project, Ozymandias, is a turn-based strategy game set in the Bronze Age. It was recently selected for funding by the UK Games Fund. Ozymandias is scheduled to release early next year.
We are seeking a talented composer to create a 45-60 minute soundtrack for £2,000 (and a credit in the game). We are running this competition to submit a single track of suitable music, we will pick a winner and then work with them on the full soundtrack.
We believe the most suitable style would be instrumental world music, with predominantly Middle Eastern, African or Indian instruments. We would like the music to have an authentic feel, it doesn't need to sound like Bronze Age music, which was pretty rudimentary, but it shouldn't sound like contemporary music either. Please don't submit EDM.
The gameplay experience is fairly relaxed and the music should match this. The soundtrack should move between higher and lower energy phases but some parts can be very simple and quiet.
Our game features empires from all over the Bronze Age world with wildly different musical histories. As a result the perfect reference for this project is the collaboration between Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player, Seckou Keita, which brings two very different musical cultures together:
Toumani Diabate is another world musician we admire:
Submissions will close on July 14th at 12pm CET and a winner will be chosen soon after. LabelRadar have agreed to provide the winner and runner up with 100 credits and 50 credits respectively. If no suitable tracks are submitted, no winner will be chosen.
We are excited to hear your compositions!