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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Listenability | #2 | 4.225 | 4.385 |
| Composing Quality | #3 | 4.225 | 4.385 |
| Execution | #4 | 4.077 | 4.231 |
| Overall | #5 | 3.988 | 4.138 |
| Correlation to Theme | #9 | 4.077 | 4.231 |
| Overall Uniqeuness | #25 | 3.336 | 3.462 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Link to Streaming Service
https://youtu.be/BbsOkou0ADQ
Description
This was a lot of fun to make :D thank you for the jam!
Based loosely on some of the games I found whilst researching the project, like Elden Ring.
For those who don't go to the itch.io page to rate:
Timestamps:
0:00 Opening Theme
2:17 Main Menu
4:22 Town Ambience-esque
6:32 Battle Theme
The YouTube video will be set public on wednesday
Screenshot of DAW
https://imgur.com/a/XCkVng2
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Comments
Frodo... you must take the ring to Orodruin.
Wonderful orchestration, with lots of interesting combinations of intruments! I love it!
Battle theme is, of course, my favorite).
Nothing screams Elden Ring more than those string textures 😄.
Really gorgeous stuff, only thing that felt a bit iffy to me on the first listen was that the very constant snare drums started to feel a bit too much as the battle theme went on. I'm pretty sure that in a gameplay context it would feel just right, but listening like this it gave me that feeling (just my subjective feel, so take with a grain of salt 😅)
Fantastic work!
Okay, this is rad.
The dynamic range is also excellent. I think people are going to underestimate this. You made the strings sound good too - something I've been leaving feedback on. It's very hard to get strings right.
Town ambience - damn the way that came in was perfect. Really awesome, this one actually grips me. It's a really good example of how chord inversion is such an important part of musical language. This one gave me goosebumps and it's just a top tier, jaw on the floor track. Really, really well done. I get emotional whenever someone creates something so beautiful, it makes me so grateful to have hosted the jam. This one definitely gives me the vibe of a destroyed, haunted town.
Battle Theme - this one is really good too - I think it maybe is a little wet overall, like it needs a little dryness to puncture the space, but it is still also very very good.
Excellent, excellent work. Thank you for submitting to this jam!
Thank you so much :O
This means a lot to me :D also of course everyone else leaving nice comments!
I do agree with the feedback regarding the battle theme. Something to think more about next time :)
I am currently still learning to mix and stuff so I will *hopefully* improve a lot in that department.
Great mix, nice textures keeping is simple and orchestral, nice fit good job.
Thank you! I mainly write orchestral so it was an easy choice to make for me for this jam :)
This is beutiful, truly impressive music writing, arrangement and production skills. Amazing work!
Thank you so much!
This is beautiful, truly impressive music writing, arrangement and production skills. Amazing work!
This is great stuff! The choir and strings are impeccable in all of your tracks. What I love most is that the overall vibe and tone are relatively the same in every track. The consistency makes the listening experience very enjoyable. This is going in my playlist fr.
Thank you! I wanted to create the different tracks based off of the same 4 note melody which also helps with consistency in my brain when composing the tracks which can be heard in the end results :p
You really captured a variety of moods in your submission, which I appreciate! I particularly enjoyed the Town Ambience theme, and the battle theme is absolutely epic.
Thank you!
Oh man, first impressions right away - your work on the choir is intoxicating! The slow creeping strings with the slight tremolo and the sharp cutaway at 2 minutes in is great. The main menu theme and town theme continue the trend and you fill up more of that space with varieties of string and a soft piano which slots nicely into the frequencies between the other instruments. It is delightfully sincere with how dreary it is! The battle theme also conveys this but, if I have one critique, there's some heavy sub usage for the drums and the right-pitched snare or percussive element (maybe a pizzicato string?) sounds off to me. Maybe it's the extra reverb? I'm not sure, but besides that this is just divine and well executed. Great job!
Thanks for the feedback and the nice words :)
I agree that the bass frequencies are a bit muddy sometimes, a future thing for me to work on. I am currently still learning to mix well so I'll hope in the future it'll be better :p