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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Composition | #14 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Impression | #23 | 3.619 | 3.619 |
| Creativity | #25 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #27 | 3.590 | 3.590 |
| Quality | #34 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Correlation to theme | #60 | 3.143 | 3.143 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Commodore 64 SID-style chiptunes for a La-Mulana like 2D action-adventure-platformer game that has emphasis on riddles, puzzles and mysteries.
I have been working on this game for a long time but it's still only in a pre-planning stage. My aim is to make the full game one day and create a full soundtrack for it too.
Dwellers of Dust is a track that I've had unfinished for a couple of years, but I decided a long time ago to use it in this specific game. It is the theme song for one of the game's many areas, appearing in later half of the game, deep inside the slowly unfolding mystery. Parts of the song were composed before this jam, but the rest of it were made and finished during the jam.
Leviathan at the Edge of Space is one of the game's boss themes. It starts more like an area track, but soon changes into full-blown action blaster with many fast paced heavy metal style riffs. This track was 100% created from the beginning to the end during this jam.
The tracks were made with Jeskola Buzz (the old version), using the 38911 Bytes VST.
Message from the artist:
Both tracks were made for people who are into certain kinds of melancholic and dark chord progressions, melodies and riffs, that's to say: mostly for myself. If our souls touch each other in any way out there in the great infinity, I'm sure you'll like what you hear. If not, I hope you'll still get some enjoyment out of these tracks.
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
It doesn't necessarily fit directly in a way people would first think about the theme, but in the game space, time and reality mixes in ways that makes panspermia be more than meets the eye.
What comes to the compositions, Leviathan at the Edge of Space sounds like a battle against a creature aiming to break the edges of space, whatever space and creature even might mean, and Dwellers of Dust has a grand sense of melancholy that comes from the vastness of space out there, around us and within us.
Link to streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/rami-airola/sets/the-omega-mountain-ost
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I love it <3
I was listening to other entry and then "C64 Action Runner" came up next in soundcloud, I recognised your profile pic (probably from the playlist with all tracks) and rushed to look for your entry in the jam. I was not dissapointed with the quality, it is awesome.
I could totally headbang to Leviathan at the Edge of Space. Need a metal version :D
i like atmosphere of your musics :))! it's nice composiition :)) however, the sound for dwellers of dust is a little bit too compressed for me. it's a shame a bit because it thaks away the energy of this pleasent music .
Very cool tracks! I liked the "synth crunch" style (as someone else said). Good work :)
Nice style, dwellers of dust is really good!
Good old school vibe in this cool soundtrack !
Everyone likes old school soundtracks! I've appreciated the slight distortion on it :)
Loved the synth crunch asthetics!!
Also, great composing! The melodies felt very meaningful.
These are really cool songs! Really like the groove and drive in them.