Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"The Battle Beneath the Sands" is a MIDI I started writing for Eviternity II in mid-2022. It was aimed at MAP10, the last level of the desert chapter, but things just didn't pan out for this track.
The original material from 2022 runs from the start, up to 1:16. After this it went into the section from 1:59 - 2:09, and then nothing more was done.
So what happened? Even though I initially felt it was a really good start, I then started to doubt myself and then it became impossible to develop it any further.
The final nail in the coffin came a few weeks later, and you might have already picked up on it. This doesn't fit MAP10 at all right? MAP10 is a very dark map, surely it called for something a bit creepier, a bit more menacing?
Initially the map had a fog effect in GZDoom, which you can still see in some of the other maps, but at that point in the development, the effect was very strong and unbeknownst to me, it was completely washing out the lighting of MAP10, making it appear quite brightly lit. So that darker atmosphere was completely lost and, not knowing otherwise, I just started writing for this brightened MAP10 instead. When I eventually tested the map in DSDA-Doom I realised my mistake, and instead wrote "The Sandwalker," which of course became the final track for this map.
We kept the MIDI around for a bit because it might have found a home on Dragonfly's old MAP06, but when that was also thrown out of the project I never came back to this MIDI, but I was always open to one day finishing it off, and well, here we are. I'm really happy with how this one eventually came together even though it's taken a few years to get here, and the guitar solo is one of my new favourites I've ever written.
I do have plans for this track, I think this description is already too long so I'll probably make a channel update video or a post somewhere down the line but for now, I can tell you there was one other track that I started for Evi2 and never finished, as well as a bunch of ideas that existed in my head for Evi2 maps (and other projects) and then I never made them, and well, I would like them to exist, so that's one of my main focuses now.
Thank you for listening!
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Background map is Eviternity II MAP10, brightened to appear more like it did when I started writing this track.
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All MIDIs: dropbox.com/s/hrnb2q4mvpkx4ut/Tristan%20Clark%20-%20All%20MIDIs.zip?dl=0
Bandcamp: tristanclark.bandcamp.com/releases
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1Xgjt8c9Myki3Nstvn1gCN
"The Battle Beneath the Sands" is a MIDI I started writing for Eviternity II in mid-2022. It was aimed at MAP10, the last level of the desert chapter, but things just didn't pan out for this track.
The original material from 2022 runs from the start, up to 1:16. After this it went into the section from 1:59 - 2:09, and then nothing more was done.
So what happened? Even though I initially felt it was a really good start, I then started to doubt myself and then it became impossible to develop it any further.
The final nail in the coffin came a few weeks later, and you might have already picked up on it. This doesn't fit MAP10 at all right? MAP10 is a very dark map, surely it called for something a bit creepier, a bit more menacing?
Initially the map had a fog effect in GZDoom, which you can still see in some of the other maps, but at that point in the development, the effect was very strong and unbeknownst to me, it was completely washing out the lighting of MAP10, making it appear quite brightly lit. So that darker atmosphere was completely lost and, not knowing otherwise, I just started writing for this brightened MAP10 instead. When I eventually tested the map in DSDA-Doom I realised my mistake, and instead wrote "The Sandwalker," which of course became the final track for this map.
We kept the MIDI around for a bit because it might have found a home on Dragonfly's old MAP06, but when that was also thrown out of the project I never came back to this MIDI, but I was always open to one day finishing it off, and well, here we are. I'm really happy with how this one eventually came together even though it's taken a few years to get here, and the guitar solo is one of my new favourites I've ever written.
I do have plans for this track, I think this description is already too long so I'll probably make a channel update video or a post somewhere down the line but for now, I can tell you there was one other track that I started for Evi2 and never finished, as well as a bunch of ideas that existed in my head for Evi2 maps (and other projects) and then I never made them, and well, I would like them to exist, so that's one of my main focuses now.
Thank you for listening!
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Background map is Eviternity II MAP10, brightened to appear more like it did when I started writing this track.
--
All MIDIs: dropbox.com/s/hrnb2q4mvpkx4ut/Tristan%20Clark%20-%20All%20MIDIs.zip?dl=0
Bandcamp: tristanclark.bandcamp.com/releases
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/1Xgjt8c9Myki3Nstvn1gCN
