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Covering Ground's itch.io pageResults
| 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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Comments
Very genisis Disney type stuff
Love it!
Really charming! It sounds like a good old SNES soundtrack. I can imagine they’re used in a real game. I liked Covering Ground especially. Good job!
Really great entries, with such awesome retro vibes and impeccable composition and style! My son actually came into the office while I was listening to your tracks thinking I was playing a new Mario game.
Haha. Best compliment I could imagine. Thanks!!
I love the bluesy, ragtime aesthetic you went for. It's very reminiscent of music from games like Super Mario World and Earthbound.
Well done!
The transitions between sections of individual songs are fluent, nice work! The song titles have alot of continuity as well haha.
Great tracks! So much fun to listen to, I really enjoy the character of your music. Thank you!
I actually just heard you quote Honeysuckle Rose and I'm lol'ing. This is a ton of fun, thanks!
Ha! Where? Could be. I think I used a lot of common jazz/blues phrases. They're a lot of fun to play.
Such light hearted and fun experience! Can't help but to smile when listening to this one!
Finally this image is contextualized for me. It's perfect haha! I can already picture this goose character with an over-the-top idle animation.
Love the mario references and the fact that this whole album would sound great in 8-bit too. Oh and the organ sounds great. Actually beautiful and intricate stuff you're playing there behind the comedic presentation lol. Chefkiss.
Thanks!
And challenge accepted! I feel a bit clumsy in 8-bit but I could see how this soundtrack would be a ton of fun.
Ok this is just heaps of fun. Energetic and bouncy. I like it.