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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Composition | #17 | 4.244 | 4.244 |
| Quality | #26 | 4.073 | 4.073 |
| Impression | #27 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #35 | 3.941 | 3.941 |
| Creativity | #42 | 3.902 | 3.902 |
| Correlation to theme | #110 | 3.488 | 3.488 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
This story is about running away, not in a bad sense ( as in running from something), but in a good sense, towards the great expanse of the beckoning world!
The following tracks are included:
1. Covering Ground: A journey through a land filled with funny looking plants and animals. You proceed at a steady pace but let yourself catch an occasional breather to enjoy the surrounding nature.
2. Covering Underground: Your journey takes you into an unexplored cave system. What wonders await you there?
3.Bonus Ground: Free stuff laying around!
4. Covering Seaground: You acquire a little boat and some rudimentary nautical skills and off you go over the wide-open sea!
5. Enough Ground: You remember your friends and family with a pang of nostalgia and decide that it is time to return home to tell the tale of your adventures.
6. Home Ground: (Epilogue) After an exhausting adventure you arrive back home at your Grampa's farm.
The soundtrack is inspired by various classic hero sagas, mainly the one about the handyman with the prominent mustache and a love-hate relationship with mushrooms, and the other one about the little boy who captures and trains animals for a zoo or something.
Note-crafting and shedding by me using MIDI instruments and FL Studio.
Theme:
How does it fit the theme?
A brief runaway story that takes you through different lands and ultimately, after an adventurous journey, back home.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/michael-meier-597140037/sets/covering-ground-ost-comp-jam-4-runaway?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Covering Ground: This has all the nostalgia of Super Mario World from the SNES. This track feels ready to be placed in a game as is right now! I like the slowed section. That jazzy organ is spicy! Great attention to musical structure; this is ready to loop forever without getting tiring.
Covering Underground: You kept the same great style of the first, made it minor and made it lower, and boom! It’s a hit underworld theme! For this one, I see lots of similarities to the map theme for the first world in Super Mario Bros 3 - love the nostalgia factor you are bringing out!
Bonus Ground: This is awesome as a bonus stage theme. I’m feeling lucky just listening to this at it climbs the scale!
Covering Seaground: Love this chord progression. Your choice of 3/4 time and the instruments you chose make it so this tune can exist nowhere but a water level. Definitely a favorite of mine from your OST!
Enough Ground: This is a very well-written melody. It has a great phrasing and is very satisfying when listening all the way through. I like it in the music box first and then reorchestrated for strings.
Home Ground: This has a very conclusive feeling to it without being cliche. Love the playful tranquility and the upper extensions on that last chord.
Overall: This is such a great OST that is ready for a game right now! I have so much nostalgia from playing SNES games as a kid listening to this. It fits right in with some of the classic greats. Great work and thank you for sharing!
Woah thanks for taking the time to listen so closely to everything. Means a lot to me!
I am definitely a SNES era kid and I am glad it shows!
Holy ****.
I love how you went for a lighthearted and goofy (in a good way!) vibe with your story and soundtrack. Kudos for the creativity (and optimism)!
The ragtime style of the first three tracks lends itself so well to the playfulness of your concept, and the expression in "Enough Ground" made me feel like—if I actually played this game—I would cry. It really got me.
Every track really brings the particular scene you were going for, AND they all work together in such a perfect way.
Stellar work, seriously.
Aww thanks for shedding a tear! I was in no mood for anything gloomy but a lot of emotions went into this OST. Thanks for listening!
Amazing soundtrack! All melodies are soooo well constructed, beautiful! Gives me a big smile on my face
A very nice soundtrack! Really like the funny mood, good work!
These are some great, bubbly tunes. They have a great campy feel that tell me so much about these funny looking plants and about the character moving through the world. Great job!
Haha, that was so much fun to listen, quirky tunes with even a Valse song ! I really like the simplicity of what you made, quality is really great, well mixed, nice strings arrangement too ! Nicely done !
I really like all of the tracks, but I really really like "Enough Ground"! I'm a sucker for the chords especially towards the end. Great work!
Yeah a lot of emotions went into this one. Thanks for listening!
This soundtrack is just fun to listen to! All the songs are just so upbeat and happy, with so many interesting melodies and flourishes. My favorite is "Covering Ground." It has so many interesting quirks throughout! I really enjoyed the whole thing though!
Well, I've listened to plenty of tracks at this stage and this is the first time I can remember coming across an entry that is explicitly framing the 'runaway' theme to something positive and exciting - a new adventure! What a great twist!! As for the tracks, there were some nice touches - the tempo shift in 'Covering Ground' (which I really wanted to whistle along to), and the brash jauntiness of 'Bonus Ground'. Lovely.
I get Chocobo meets Pac-Man 2: the New Adventures or Unnamed Turkey Challenge (the sequel to Untitled Goose Game) vibes from this OST. Silly in a good way! I thought you stuck a little to close to your influences but it was executed really well! My fave track was Covering Underground
I love how different this was from most others I listened too! How happy and upbeat this was really set it apart from the crowd and would never thought to do this! Loved every track!
I love how this entire OST made me feel so silly and joyful! you did a great job. My favorite was Enough Ground. The first half gave me some real Cowboy Bebop vibes. Then it follows with a dope Ocarina of time feel. You hit like two of my all-time favorite things! Again, great job.
Interesting. I actually aimed for a Zelda feel for during the last OST comp jam. I'm delighted that it still shows here. Thanks for listening!
I like the "bluesy" character of it. Somehow nostalgic for me. The timbral choices sometimes resembles Super Mario. Very cool, Congrats!
Love the jazzy vibes in the second track! And the fifth track is so pretty. Also have a soft spot for the BBC Orchestra strings. Good stuff!
Love that your music somehow let's your sense of humor transpire. Your writing style is damn serious nonetheless, with the organ on Covering Ground giving me some strong Walter Wanderley feels. Also you totally own dat MIDI instrument sound, not everyone can manage that without creating the infamous midi cringe. Dope.
I love the mood of this entire album. It's super laid-back! "Covering Ground" and "Covering Seaground" is definitely my favorite.
I love how unique this submission is! You created a positive approach to something I assumed to be gloomy when writing my piece. Bonus points for thinking outside the box 👍
Haha, yeah I was in no mood for anything gloomy.
Great work!
Some amazing clavinet (?) and organ work. I especially like the track Bonus Ground and Enough Ground. The latter sounds like such a relaxing lullaby.
Thanks!
I had to look up what a clavinet is. Main instruments I used here are an E-bass, nylon guitar, vibraphone and hammond organ. They are old-ish sf2 soundfonts (Kiarchive) for the more old-school feel. Strings are BBC orchestra.
Ah, maybe it's a nylon guitar or E-bass then. I'm not sure. Soundtrack sounds great though!
It's so happy! I love it. Some parts veer a little close to sounding like some Mario tracks, but I think you got enough original for that to be fine (to me at least).
Also I appreciate the tempo changes (I noticed at least one), they sound nice and make the music more interesting. I wanted to do that in one of my tracks but then I got lazy trying to work out how to do that lol
Haha. Glad you liked it!
The Mario reference is definitely intended. This was a big part of my childhood.
Thanks for the feedback!