Compose a track as if you were the composer for this game!

Earthbound (1994, SNES)
Shops

Infos on the game

🎵 Listen to the original soundtrack by Hirokazu Tanaka and Keiichi Suzuki here 🎵

The style and process is totally free. Compose as if you were hired to create the soundtrack for this game or a (fictional) remake / demake.

PS: In the original soundtrack, the track "Buy Something Will Ya!" is used for several locations, but here compose something for the shopping places only.

👮 Submission rules

• Your track must be ORIGINAL, this is not a cover of a music from the game.
• Your track should not be AI generated.

• Your track must be entirely created during the span of the submission period.

• Submit a single track between 1 and 3 minutes. Do not submit a loop that is shorter than 1 minute. If you have a 2 minute song and want to make it loop, you must fade it out before it get over 3 minutes.

• The track must be submitted as a downloable mp3 or wav or flac inside of an Itch.io project. It is also mandatory to provide a link to a streaming platform, soundcloud, youtube, bandcamp...

Steps to create your project for submission:

1. Click on your profile and select "upload new project" .
2. Select "Albums & soundtracks" under "Classification/What are you uploading?".
3. Upload your .mp3 or .wav recordings by pressing the "Upload files" button.
4. Go to the bottom of the page and click "Save & view page".
5. At the top left corner of your project's page, click "Edit asset pack" to go back.
6. At the bottom of the page, select "Public" under "Visibility & access".
7. Fill the rest of the boxes as you like.
8. Save and view the page, you can change the look of your page there (if you want to).
9. Submit your project here and fill in the submission details.

You can reuse the same project for future jams, if you do so, make sure it's obvious which submission goes to which jam.

📈 Rating 

• Credibility: How well does it fit the game and area.

• Impression: Did you liked the music, this is purely subjective and you should feel free to give 5 stars even if the music don't fit the game at all.

• Composition: Is the music well crafted when it comes to : melodic development, harmony, conterpoint, structure, transition between parts... (I know it can be challenging to rate ambient music fairly on this criteria).

• Creativity: Does the piece sound unique to you, does it pack a lot of personality, did it subverted your expectations in a good way.

• Sound quality: How good is the mixing, mastering? Does the samples, VST, synths... sound appropriate and seems well mastered?

⚠️Final ranking will be set by raw score, unadjusted by the Under Median Score Penalty Algorithm.⚠️

🧾 Click here to see the list from where the games are picked at random 🧾

🏆 Top 3 of each jam can add the game of their choice to the list 🏆

This is a monthly jam, to join the next edition:  https://itch.io/jam/alternative-soundtrack-music-jam-6

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