Hi everyone I'm just posting our game jam here for others to check out. We used Godot and a great pixel art AI plugin for Aseprite that I found called PixelLab. I found old Russian folk midis and used an app called GXSCC to convert them to chiptune sounding songs. As a bit of an easter egg you can also select the USSR anthem in options.
We're looking to expand the game so any suggestions are welcome. Godot 4 was a bit of a pain to work with but hopefully will be more developed going forward.
I can recommend the Seattle Indies Slow game jam next year, you don't have to be in Seattle to join.
Edit: Someone has been impersonating us in the comments on itch, I am one developer here and the other dev AndroidOverlord is the other on itch.io - anyone else responding is not associated with Rabbitariat.
Thank you very much! The music was really catchy and we found ourselves humming it all the time :)
Sure happy to help! The website with the russian folk music and other midis is here: https://telkov-mv.narod.ru/midi_english.html
I then used this tool called GXSCC (https://meme.institute/gxscc/) to convert the midi to a chiptune wav and then used Audacity to export again as ogg for Godot.
I was very worried about music but this youtube video popped up about GXSCC and it worked perfectly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh65UL5EQF8 , although usage is quite simple). MIDIs are relatively easy to get, I felt a bit of concern I don't know who to credit for this but these midis are of folk music, on an ancient website, and we are not selling the game.
As a side node, YouTube actually has this tune copyrighted by someone but as it's a folk song, the owner allows use we didn't get a strike...even though it's a midi that was turned into a chiptune didn't exist before we did the game! Was really surprised how aggressive the music detection is!
Hope this helps you with your game :3
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: