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Waiting For The Righting Of The Gömböc Friendly Music Jam 3 - Break The Rules hosted by Gullo - December 2024's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Broken Rules - How much "rulebreaking" do you hear? | #1 | 4.615 | 4.615 |
| Sound - Does the mix sound good? | #9 | 3.769 | 3.769 |
| Broken Ears? - Does the "rulebreaking" make the track interesting or just messy? | #17 | 3.231 | 3.231 |
| Overall | #21 | 3.205 | 3.205 |
| Enjoyment - Do you enjoy the music? | #25 | 2.692 | 2.692 |
| Geomusic - Can you associate the track with the provided image? | #26 | 2.462 | 2.462 |
| Depth - Does the music evoke any emotions for you? | #27 | 2.462 | 2.462 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Themes followed
Theme 1
Break The Rules
Streaming Link 1
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/waiting-for-the-righting-of-the-gomboc-submission-for-friendly-music-jam-3-for-itchio-dec-2024
Extra?
The MixCraft DAW allowed me to add basically double the 14 instruments I used on the Roland FA-08 but in order not to drown it out and sound murky I brought them in at a really low recording level compared to the manually performed synth half of the tracks. So they just poke through softly here and there where there isn't an interference pattern blocking them.
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twenty-eight instruments... goddamn!
You flow smoothly through all of your melodic ideas--break them along with the rules--and revisit them later. I like the motif at around a minute in. It's like the musical equivalent of an absurdist painting, or what I'd hope to hear in a mind/reality break section of a game.
glad you had a good time :)
There are some really cool sounds and ideas in here. Sometimes a mix of so many different ideas though can make it so that no one idea is able to shine or peak through. While staying true to you style it could be cool to try and add a reoccurring motif to bring a cohesiveness to everything. Then again, if your style is all about straying away from that I would understand. Super cool submission though great work!
The sounds and melodies here are top notch and pleasing to my ears. This track really highlights your playstyle which feels very raw and unapologetic
quality stuff, great synth tones and love the freeform structure and approach to melody and rhythm that still feels coherent
What I like the most is the whackyness of the rhythm, it's so nice, bouncing the listener here and there. The instruments speak so well with each other. The occasional cameos of other instruments also work really well. It's a crazy track, but it all makes sense. It must have been difficult to have so much going on and keeping it sane. Great work!
Sounds like your jamming on your keyboard. You are definitly breaking the rules. i hear a lot of musical phrases that could be used independently for various scenes in a game. A game that comes to mind is the legendary mario 64 game. nice work
Wow that was kind of a space trip 🤯 nice work that was pretty cool 👍
yah and like finally this is the jam where breaking the rules is the rules
we kind of know me on Itch.IO now since July as the goofer that manually performs using his upscale Roland and just hits save, while most participants are working from the DAW side to hand-place notes instead
I kind of ruffle some feathers usually....
so my style lends itself to this particular jam :) we'll see if i rank better haha
Glad you had fun.
There is a lot going on! I thought some relaxing or slower section could make it more interesting by adding a contrast. Also some synth sound changes could spice it up even more. I like that it is kinda chaotic but at the same time it has a pattern and rhythm to it.
Like with crypt of the necrodancer submission by me a while back, its possible my 2nd-to-last version has the less-busy feel a bunch of raters would have preferred :) This is reminding me to package that intermediate up for Spotify and such through Distrokid and give it a main-lineup release number lol.
Gratified that you had fun.