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Hourglass OST - OSTJam6's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #73 | 3.515 | 3.611 |
| Quality | #78 | 3.569 | 3.667 |
| Composition | #84 | 3.461 | 3.556 |
| Overall | #88 | 3.439 | 3.533 |
| Impression | #90 | 3.353 | 3.444 |
| Correlation to theme | #92 | 3.299 | 3.389 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
For the game, I was envisioning a puzzle game where the player has the power to manipulate time and therefore would need to use these abilities to progress through the game.
The genre for the pieces that I made for the gamejam would fit into the ambient genre as it has many elements that I drew inspiration from. Most of the pieces started off with a general brainstorming stage in order to establish the desired mood. From there, I listen to other pieces in order see what I like and can draw inspiration from. After that, I play around in my DAW and refine the piece.
Theme:
How does it fit the theme?
The theme that I chose was the photo of the person sitting on the big hourglass.
The photo that was provided gave a big sense of loneliness and liminality which what I tried to convey through my submissions. For the level theme, I tried to play into the fact that the game was a puzzle game and made the music geared towards setting a good mood for the player to start thinking about how to solve the various puzzles.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/lilinamusic/title-theme
https://soundcloud.com/lilinamusic/level-theme
https://soundcloud.com/lilinamusic/credits-theme
Soundtrack use permission
Any non-commercial project
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Comments
These tracks create such an interesting mood! They definitely capture the loneliness, but with an underlying positivity too. I can really see this as the soundtrack to an atmospheric puzzle game. Well done! :)
Interesting choice to use the person on the hourglass for the theme. I think your music expresses well how that person would feel. The disposition of the tracks is interesting as well. It's as if the person started lonely, then in the level was looking for something, but eventually the person falls back to loneliness. Maybe that's all in my head, but it works. Good job!
Some lovely, relaxing ambience. The piano in the title theme had a kind of improv, free-time feel which really suited the liminal feel you were going for. Nice job!
Loved how each track has its own personality, yet all of them are so relaxing but intriguing. Great job!
Definitely some really nice sounds and melodies going on here! It feels so so delicate and for the right moment really puts off the perfect mood. I think the melodic content could definitely be brought up in volume in the mix. It's so so good and so enticing and I feel like ducking it too low would be doing it a huge disservice. Very very lovely! Nice work!
Definitely nailed the loneliness aspect. Even in the leveling theme, it feels like an attempt to be more upbeat even though deep down the loneliness is still there. Nice job.
This is really special stuff - there's a presence here and a giftedness that delivers the lonely, isolated vibe of the picture beautifully. Well done.