nice chords! Especially the last little bit of stuck in time. The earth can’t hold me did a really nice job of building over 8 minutes. Slow enough that it would feel really natural to progress through a level with that song playing in the background. Really nice job!
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Lost in Space - Pixcele's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Correlation to theme | #57 | 4.072 | 4.072 |
| Creativity | #91 | 3.904 | 3.904 |
| Overall | #92 | 3.866 | 3.866 |
| Composition | #113 | 3.888 | 3.888 |
| Impression | #152 | 3.688 | 3.688 |
| Quality | #154 | 3.776 | 3.776 |
Ranked from 125 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
While its really hard to convey a longer story with just two songs, I wanted to use these songs to convey the two main points of the little story I came up with for this, so I'll give a little explanation for each track:
STUCK IN TIME - (Menu Theme)
This is the song that I would have establish our protagonist, a nice more relaxing but distinctly hollow instrumentation that starts to plant the seeds of the nature of this character, who is incredibly lonely and struggles to break out of their bubble (this song was pretty directly inspired by the inspo pic). They are happy in their little place of solitude, but the sense of lonelyness and not being enough slowly becomes more and more apparent, which is when we meet them as it finally starts to reach a tipping point where they set out on a quest to try and find a greater purpose in life. This song is supposed to embody the naivete of this character at the start of the story, a lot more visibly "happy" and doesn't fully grasp the changes in their life that have to happen to get them out of this.
THE EARTH CAN'T HOLD ME - (Final Area)
Playing more towards the emotional climax of the game, this would be the song that plays as the protagonist reaches her final destination, as in her fight to escape her loneliness she has unintentionally pushed everything away, and physically pushed herself to the furthest reaches of the earth, with the swell at 2:00 representing the steps beyond the earth's atmosphere, the danger and unknown that comes with being in space. Shes not only mentally lost and struggling, but physically lost and in danger by nature of being alone, in space, just with the thoughts that have tormented her throughout the story. Nothing about this final area is safe, nothing about it is comfortable, nothing about the protagonists' mental state is comfortable. The worst memories are on loop, the worst thoughts, and running to space hasn't fixed them. The song gets darker and more muddled as the dangers get faced head on (i kind of envision this as a pixel platformer jumping between space debris with the earth sitting in the background), before finally slowing down as the protagonist finally starts to grasp what she has to do as the looping repetitive thoughts finally start to slow down.
This was all made on Ableton Live!!
Message from the artist
Feedback is very appreciated! I've never done something like this before and would love to understand what people think of my music!
Theme
Inside my world
Picture theme
How does it fit the theme?
I chose to embrace the theme "inside my world" especially from the side of being stuck inside ones head, allowing "The Earth Can't Hold Me" to provide a more stark contrast to the more happy feel of "Stuck in Time" which plays off of the more relaxed feeling of the picture theme. I wanted to show both the good and the bad of being stuck in your own little world, and how that (in this story) the bad ultimately turns ugly as the protagonist's world essentially falls apart around her.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/pixcele/sets/lost-in-space-ost-composing?si=10fc5cd7e4714d09873d41d53293994f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://youtu.be/lPxpinzhPKc
Number of tracks2
Genre
Ambient
Experimental
Soundtrack use permission
Yes (CC BY)
Any project
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