Led off with some really cool implied harmonies with the arpeggio! Loved the Dorian flavor in this track. Second track gives me Seiken Densetsu 3 vibes, I think the instrumentation mostly. Love it! Lululand is crazy cool. Dryland has some spooky harmonies implied by those arpeggios. Very exotic sounding, reminds me of Illusion of Gaia. Definitely my favorite, such a dark atmosphere painted. The Flow is a cute outro and a nice way to round off the OST. Great work!
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Starlight Resonance's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #41 | 3.744 | 3.867 |
| Impression | #56 | 3.421 | 3.533 |
| Overall | #64 | 3.421 | 3.533 |
| Correlation to theme | #71 | 3.615 | 3.733 |
| Quality | #75 | 3.227 | 3.333 |
| Composition | #86 | 3.098 | 3.200 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
(Copied from project page)
The Game:
Starlight Resonance is a fictional Super Mario Galaxy-inspired 3D platformer/level builder hybrid, where you have to complete others' levels in order to get resources to build your own. The player character (either Toren or Taryn, depending on players' choice of gender) explores themed galaxies populated by ready-made, randomly-generated, and user-created platforming challenges, completing optional objectives and making friends along the way.
Basically, picture a more mature version of SMG that retains the general aesthetic but has more depth to its world.
The Story:
When a colony of intergalactic nomads finds a treasure trove of renewable energy, all the evil in the universe begins to converge upon them. It's up to Taryn to stop the warlord Enutulopio from stealing the power of Starlight!
Tracklist:
Wishing (Title Screen) - 02m24s
Starlight Resonance (Main Theme) - 02m42s
The Starbeam Palace - 03m07s
A bustling satellite city that roams the known and yet to be known universe, Starbeam Palace is where Taryn calls home. From Starbeam Palace, she is sent on missions by leaders and countrymen alike, can build a home base (called a Pod) for herself, and use the stars she collects on missions to purchase resources. Different shops around the city offer materials and decorations for her Pod, necessary food and water, and nifty armor and weaponry to aid her in future quests.
Lululand - 03m12s
Lululand is a moon recently discovered by Star Palace, smack dab in the middle of the universe and simply loaded with simple stars. If you’re lucky, though, you might find a more valuable one too! Since it is so newly discovered, there are few enemies on Lululand─ for now. Taryn is assigned a post to collect as many stars as she can, occasionally battling small opponents or competing with other players for stars. This galaxy is mostly a training ground and starting place for star collection for Taryn, and ideally will increase in difficulty as the player progresses in the game
Windy Wisps - 02m49s
Long since deserted and rebuilt, Windy Wisps is a cluster of gas planets circled with dust rings, home to cloud-like forms called Wisps that hoard and guard all kinds of stars as agents of the warlord Enutulopio. Dead trees and rundown buildings litter the landscape and Wisps float in and out of all of it, sneakily appearing and disappearing as Taryn tries to find the stars. If she’s caught by a Wisp, Taryn has to complete a minigame and defeat the Wisp to gain access to the stars that they hoard. The more powerful the star being guarded, the more difficult to defeat the Wisp. Once Taryn gains a certain amount of starpower, she can unlock the next galaxy, called Drylands.
Drylands - 04m00s
A long drought came to destroy what was left of neighboring kingdom Calandia after Enutulopio wrought havoc on the planet system Orken. Simple stars, leftover from the alien weaponry, are buried beneath the rubble. Taryn must try to avoid the alien traps and collect as many stars as she can before she runs out of resources. Unbeknownst to Taryn at first, Drylands also hides a reserve of some of the strongest star power known to the galaxies: nova stars.
The Flow - 02m27s
The Flow, Starbeam Palace’s closest galaxy, is a water-based planetary system that is connected by water currents suspended in space housing lots of simple stars and a few plato stars, which are a little more powerful and valuable than simple stars. Taryn can travel between the worlds by swimming through currents in order to collect materials and stars and to interact with locals, but her main objective is to defeat Enutulopio, who has collected a nova star from Drylands and is attempting to take over and destroy the Flow, too. Taryn has to find her way onto the warlord’s ship, collecting stars along the way for health and weaponry, and steal the nova star back to save the Flow and the galaxies surrounding it─including Starbeam Palace itself.
Runtime: 20m41s
Message from the artist:
Due to various Christmas-related festivities, I ended up working on this for about a tenth of the time I had planned. Go easy on me!
Theme:
Wish upon a star
Picture theme
How does it fit the theme?
Stars & moons play a key role in the plot and the gameplay
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsQ4SmjD4m4DGInXZ2cg2IT1CA_M9Dl5d
Soundtrack use permission
Yes (CC BY-NC)
Any non-commercial project
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