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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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Comments
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!