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A jam submission

Cloctower TownView project page

Soundtrack made for OST Composing Jam #6
Submitted by qualitanty — 2 days, 2 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Correlation to theme#823.4503.647
Creativity#1383.0053.176
Overall#1432.8042.965
Composition#1472.6152.765
Impression#1512.6152.765
Quality#1542.3372.471

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
Concept: You, an outsider, arrive in a town with a prominent cloctower where the inhabitants have their time stolen by nightmarish entities. Battle the nightmares and help restore the hours of the clock to the townsfolk.

Started with a very basic tick-tock beat and found a leitmotif for the town as well as a more threatening sound for the nightmare tracks. Used beepbox.co as a primitive DAW.

Message from the artist:
I wanted to try my hand at quickly composing something based on a theme.
Clocktower Battle is the track I'm most satisfied with.

Theme:

Tick Tock...

How does it fit the theme?
First and foremost, the soundtrack is built around a beat that resembles the ticking of a clock. Secondly, it is written for a game where the player explores a town that experiences time-theft and has a prominent clocktower.

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/tore-bergebakken/sets/clocktower-town-ost
Might upload to YouTube if I bother

Soundtrack use permission

No

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Pretty cute entry, I especially liked the second song! Nice job.

Submitted(+1)

I think you got a lot out of something very limited, which is very impressive.

I noticed that your tracks move a lot more harmonically then other loop based tracks, which is a very good way to make sure the entire doesn't run itself out.

Overall, pretty nice considering the limited workstation.

Submitted(+1)

There are a lot of good ideas here and interesting melodies and progressions. I like the movement in clocktower battle. I wanted to hear more variety though, either by changing things up within the tracks, or shortening them. Overall though it's a nice cohesive sound. Thanks for making and sharing.

Submitted(+2)

I enjoyed the progression from track to track, I think living in the track itself I wasn't always digging  it, but when I consider the impression I got from the 4 tracks overall, I was definitely able to conjure an image of the game as described. I would have loved for these tracks to be a bit shorter and for there to be more of them, descending deeper and deeper into the nightmare aspect.

Submitted(+1)

Although I have to save the townsfolk, I feel like I want to raid Dracula house :]]

And the rhythm actually challenges me. It would kill some Osu players :]]

Submitted(+1)

It required a bit of getting used to but after the end of the second track, I was really getting into it. I legit think your submission is the one to incorporate "tick-tock" into musical elements most naturally!

Submitted(+1)

I like how the theme gets darker, while staying the same, as the game moves forward.
(Go team Clocktower! :D)

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Clocktower Town was indeed my favorite! It really got my attention with the jazz+rock style! Rhythmically the one I liked most was Clocktower Battle which reminds me of brazilian samba