I love the twist on the story where you actually play the wish granting entity! Really nice sound choices and overall vibe for your tracks, and you've managed your reverb pretty well! In particular, I really like the build up your second track. Nice job overall!
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Impression | #28 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
Quality | #49 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
Overall | #50 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
Creativity | #54 | 3.563 | 3.563 |
Correlation to theme | #58 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
Composition | #60 | 3.313 | 3.313 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
These songs are mostly electronic, making use of the Helm synth and FL Studio's default electric piano.
The idea I had was that it could be a game where the hero can interact with dreams, and fights the nightmares of the troubled kids, while trying to make their wishes within come true. When he descends into the level (the child's dream) he would appear as a shooting star. However, there's only so much he can do since he can't interact with the real world (I added alarm clocks and ticking to show the connection to dreams) but he tries his best to make the kids happy, at least in their dreams.
The game would likely be a kind of dungeon crawler where you fight nightmares and talk to the kids inside the dream.
Sea of Dreams would be the main theme/level select of the game, and Restless Trance is the main level theme.
Message from the artist:
The cymatics origin plugin I feel really saved me on this one, being able to change saturation and add chorus, as well as movement on individual notes. I also got to experiment a bit with wet vs dry reverb.
Theme:
How does it fit the theme?
The hero would appear as a shooting star when loading into levels, and stars were represented in the soundtrack as short high notes with long release time and reverb. The hero has the purpose of fulfilling wishes (to some extent) and a floaty, hopeful/heroic feel is given by the synths present.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Q-eRuSvz8&list=PLnOM6pjP9dRV_7CVG3LgXQS3hfMZ4wZfy&ab_channel=Boltcry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXzkGJZpZZk&list=PLnOM6pjP9dRV_7CVG3LgXQS3hfMZ4wZfy&index=2&ab_channel=Boltcry
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