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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1 | 4.425 | 4.425 |
| Overall | #4 | 4.085 | 4.085 |
| Impression | #7 | 4.075 | 4.075 |
| Quality | #10 | 4.100 | 4.100 |
| Correlation to theme | #10 | 3.975 | 3.975 |
| Composition | #22 | 3.850 | 3.850 |
Ranked from 40 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
All tracks are composed in Logic Pro X. For synthesizers I used Phase Plant, Vital, and Polygon 2. For orchestral libraries I used both Spitfire Audio and Orchestral Tools. I also used an old broken radio, a handmade drone jar synthesizer, and a melodica.
You play as a girl plagued by vivid nightmares searching for a cure. You explore four areas that are cursed with being stuck in each of the four seasons for eternity. First being Autumn, second being Summer, third being Spring, and the final one being Winter. The seasons are in a reversed order to reflect how disoriented the main character is. In the end you must confront your nightmares as they begin consuming the world you loved.
Track 1 - Fall Forest: You find yourself in a forest surrounded by stone ruins and brilliant trees of red and gold. It's unclear what happened to the inhabitants and the stone walls crumble under your finger tips.
Track 2 - Fight in the Summer Heat: Things take a harrowing turn as you encounter someone much like yourself. Someone exhausted and torn from the seemingly endless nightmares. Only difference between them and you is that you haven't given up hope yet.
Track 3 - Glass Field in Springtime: You explore a wide open meadow with seemingly no end. Small crystal glass formations cover the field in the place of grass. What odd phenomenon created this?
Track 4 - Voice of the Ice Mountains: You are certain you can hear voices come out of the mountains, but there is no sign of life. Nothing good could make this frigid landscape their home, it's best you move swiftly.
Track 5 - All Consuming Nightmare: You arrive at the end of your journey with nothing to show for it. You are tired, drained, and on the brink of despair. The black abyss of the crevices of your conscious become ever so welcoming. Your mind aches. What is your purpose? Who even are you? Would giving up be so bad?
Message from the artist:
Had a lot of fun experimenting and coming up with weird ideas for making noises
Theme:
How does it fit the theme?
I wrote four tracks to correspond with each season and area on the main character's journey. I interpreted the black area as the character's nightmares/fears that she needs to face.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/twitchywhalez-247822379/sets/search-for-a-cure-ost-composing-jam-3
Youtube: To be added
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I like that this was pretty intense, but not too intense in my opinion. I thought that the disorientation was captured very well in "Fight In The Summer Heat". The general atmosphere of these pieces gave me some Oxenfree vibes, which I really loved! Great work on this OST!
I love hoe you mix subtle accoustic instrumentation with the electronic and static
STELLAR WORK! This is beautifully realized; the elements flow together so smoothly and, dare I say, deliciously. The high end is a rather present at times, keeps me from cranking up the volume, but even so it's some awesome stuff. I love it!
Glad you liked it! I noticed that issue about the high end after the jam ended, it managed to slip past my speaker tests
For me, it's always the reverb and panning that slips me by – I want a better monitoring setup so badly lol
Very patient writing, great arranging and production. Nice job, it fits the theme of your story really well.
Nice job!! It really gives creepy and tense vibes, and is composed well!
VERY atmospheric
love all the micro details and thought put into how everything is arranged
Absolutely love these tracks. The section at 1:34 in Fight In The Summer Heat is so cool. Love the sudden cuts and timbre changes. Really great stuff!
wow. Love how you took ambiance and slapped that in wonderfully with your melody. Super awesome. It's very much out of a movie or a cinematic based video game cut scenes. Tickle me impressed.
This really felt cinematic, I feel like I could imagine a Mass Effect cutscene in there.
Truly nightmarish. Now I can't go to sleep ~_^.
good work! ^_^
Thank you! Sorry about that haha
A really creepy atmosphere, good work!
Awesome in scope: definitely has a very unsettling vibe to the whole experience. I think I loved the Summer Fight track the best: I liked the glitchy saturation coming into the fight and then the section from the strings onwards: I can definitely feel myself embroiled in a battle to the death. Great work!
This is a really great, unique and nicely well made work. It seems that each track is perfectly connected with the next one building a nice but creepy atmosphere in a well written climax. Good job!
Really atmospheric, sonically coherant as an OST but each area still has unique traits, nicely done
Thanks!
An incredible work of timbres and textures. You must be an excellent sound designer! I loved the mix between the epic mood, glitchs, noise, ambience, futurism and experimentalism. I found your idea very well executed, strange and provocative in the right measure!
Thank you haha, I love sound design so it's always nice to hear that the effort I put into it pays off!
What a vibe! i love your use of saturation, great atmosphere :)
Thank you!
Thanks a lot! All Consuming Nightmare was my favorite track to work on
Absolutely incredible! Love your work.
Nice ambience! Amazing how you created landscape and places only with sound, and I could imagine the place. Great job!
Thank you!
Aaaah ambient. And with a fun experimental touch. I like how manipulate sound textures, especially saturation, to build interesting harmonics. It has a Tim Hecker feel to it (espcially Voice of the Ice Mountains). I also like your take on the theme even though I had something much brighter in mind lol.
Thank you! Tim Hecker is a new name, I'll have to check him out