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Bubble Planet (OST Composing Jam 7)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #83 | 3.933 | 3.933 |
| Composition | #102 | 3.900 | 3.900 |
| Impression | #128 | 3.767 | 3.767 |
| Overall | #158 | 3.720 | 3.720 |
| Quality | #265 | 3.567 | 3.567 |
| Correlation to theme | #318 | 3.433 | 3.433 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
The genres are mainly focused around ambient and orchestral ideas.
Submergency - You are now inside the Bubble Planet. Everything feels strange and dark, but eventually you realize just how grand the world around you is.
Sea Frog - You meet a silly little frog. That's it :)
abyss eyes - Sundown in Bubble Planet is very eerie - there are yellow glowing eyes in the abyss.
Final Breath - Your breath is running short. You need to find a way out of Bubble Planet quickly.
Finally, you are free.
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
It is a scary yet inspiring planet of bubbles!
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://on.soundcloud.com/RtC1fUdN3V4vmEc47
Number of tracks4
Genre
Soundtrack use permission
Any non-commercial project
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Comments
Submergency
Great ambience off the bat. The choir and string quality is excellent. The light water SFX is very well balanced. Wow, huge turn in the music, really gives that epic feel. Wide variety of instrumentation and feelings. Really great track, the fade out of the synth at the end feels a little off to me, I think it would sound better if it was solo piano at the very end, but that's subjective.
Sea Frog
Great intro, great underwater feel. SO groovy! Sounds like a great track for a level. Overall just impressive, so many moving parts, so energetic and wacky. A good tune.
abyss eyes
Ooo, great contrast to the other tracks here. A more creepy feeling, so very ambient, love the distance/reverb/muddyness of everything. Then it feels like it "shines", like light cutting through water. I appreciate how it's a bit more minimal than the other tracks, which in my opinion is great for a more horror-esque feeling.
Final Breath
Good build up, though it doesn't have the underwater feel the others have, though perhaps that's intentional based on the title? Excellent epic sections, composition-wise I feel it is very well done, but I would say it's the weakest track compared to the others. It doesn't feel as fleshed out, and I don't feel the core theme of it quite as much.
I wish there was more description of the game itself and how you visualize each track within it, what they represent, as I feel that would really improve the listening experience and give something else to connect feedback to. The creativity when it comes to the game idea is something that I personally value. The idea was very straightforward, and I feel you could push yourself when it comes to this aspect should you do this or a similar jam in the future.
That aside, the composition and mixing here is very impressive in my opinion. Musically, you seem very skilled! You should be proud of this submission. Best of luck to you. <3
love the high quality feedback, thank you :)
i finally have time to check some other submissions, i'll start with you!
a nice combination of orchestra, electronic, ambient and some kind of jazz feeling to it, and the effects making it fit the theme of planet of bubbles, submergency would work great as some introduction to the bubble planet sounding ominous in a way but at the same time there's that part that would reveal the planet itself and it sounds much more brighter and epic, and then it got calmer with piano and guitar with some pads, is a very nice touch to it. i like how sea frog got more instruments playing on it, the chord progression is very good, full of energy, the instruments fit very well all together. abyss eyes is another great work, eerie and ambient. final breath is very interesting, the tense in the beginning, how dramatic it sounds, being much more orchestra, and then it gets much more calm sounding and cheerful in a way, and then epic and dramatic again like before but with a different mood. this project is really well done, amazing, i liked it! keep going
thank you for the quality feedback :)
I really liked the second song because of the funny 80s tube toy instrument!
hahaha!! i'm glad someone else sees that comparison
As everyone else who has commented stated, Sea Frog is by far the best song I have heard from this music jam !!! It gave me a very mobster esque feeling to it and felt very jazzy and spicy. My wife, dog and I were having a blast listening and dancing to it !! Awesome job !
comments like these are what keeps me going :,,)
Love the variety you brought in this OST! Love how you played around with eerie textures in Abyss Eye, used full string voicings, and brought some splunkiness in Sea Frog. Very fun and suprising listen.
Sea Frog was definitely my favorite, absolute bangerr
Man, I've never heard so many different ways to make music sound 'bubbly', and it all sounds good! Really cool stuff. And yeah, I'm also a big fan of Sea Frog, such a fun piece to listen to. Great job!
Love the hopeful and uplifting chord progression you have going on at the peak of Submergency! Some great production with all the bubbly sound design! Well done!
For starters, Sea frog, is SO CAPTIVATING! Incredible work, this was a great listen.
This is great, I love sea frog and also abyss eyes is perfect. The bubbling sfx fit so well and I love how it builds
I'm another Sea Frog believer lol, that was such a good track!
Sea Frog made me laugh with joy, it’s so fun and rhythmic. Mister Frog has some charisma there haha. Very creative playlist, I love that you also incorporated sound designs and chose very specific instrument categories, or made them more aquatic. Very pleasant ! Keep on going :)
I love the textures in Abyss Eyes, really cool aesthetic and instrument choices overall! Great job!
I love the instrumentation on Sea Frog with the crazy synth leads, and the rhythm is hypnotizing. I also like how the piano compliments everything on the songs it's featured in. The last song is definitely very grand feeling, and makes me wonder more what an actual Bubble Planet game would be like if this was it's climactic song.
-Chey
Really lovely orchestral-like soundtrack! The underwater vibes going through it are also really cool!
Submergency was really good! Especially the part where it ramps up and the whole chorus comes in! Everything sounds really good together!
Sea Frog is very groovy! Not much else to say other than the instrument samples sound really good!
Abyss Eyes is a very neat atmospheric track! Some of the notes towards the middle part sound a bit odd, but towards the end everything comes together well!
Final Breath starts almost like a super intimidating dark souls boss, and then it gets really chill and hopeful before finally climaxing into a triumphant orchestra! I see a lot of storytelling potential in this song, and it really impressed me!
If I had to give any criticism at all, it would be that there's not very much panning in the songs, most instruments are stuck in the center. Which is better than bad panning, but experiementing a little more with that could make some songs sound more "full." Because of that it also makes the occasional panned instrument feel oddly out of place? (Not sure how to discribe my thoughts fully). But take anything I say with quite a bit of salt as I am still very much an amateur! Fantasic job on the soundtrack!
Oh yeah, I agree a ton on the panning! I didn't pay attention to that even once while writing! I'll keep this in mind!
Good stuff! I especially liked submergency, definitely got that ambience to establish itself and it set the mood really well. I also appreciate how the soundtrack was both diverse and continuous, I could definitely sense a coherent theme to it. Overall, nice work and best of luck :)
Oh I really like Submergency, as all the different phases of the music are super interesting and overall the sound is great. It conveys a lot! Final Breath is also epic ! Piano part wich starts at 1:36 reminded me a little of the sounds of Chicory: A Colorful Tale and I love it, as well as the rest of the track!!
I really like sea frog. It gives of a sorta Fnaf vibe with the introduction of the vibrato piano instrument. It reminds me of the killer in purple Fnaf fan game series. I think its the jazziness of it all that really makes it so pretty. The pacing throughout all of your tracks is nice and consistent as well as your choice of instruments, which are pretty epic if i do say so my self. 8/10 on the rating scale!
Haha it's crazy how everyone calls my tracks FNAF. I have a similar one called Droplet Plank (far more electronic focused) that has also gotten that comment lol
Thank you so much for the comment :)
a nice mix of epic, mysterious, and spooky! my favorite track is Final Breath - really feels like everything builds to those final moments. a beautiful ost throughout, and i love the sounds you used!
thank you so much :)
i'm glad to hear all this, it's exactly as intended!!
1.) Submergency - 4.8
Oh wow, I was not prepared for the dramatic shift the song had! Sounds a bit ominous but hopeful at the same time, just overall really great.
2.) Sea Frog - 4.5
Great song! I love how groovy it is. A pretty big change from the first song which was dramatic to say the least. I don't think I've mentioned yet but I like the bubble sfx you put in the tracks.
3.) Abyss Eyes - 4.0
Again, we're back to the ominous tracks. It really does give off a heavy sense of confusion and dread. Like you're trapped deep under sea. Definitely lives up to its name!
4.) Final Breath - 5.0
Holy, this track is amazing! Everything from the dramatic intro to the shift into a calmer melody and then the instant rise to such an impactful and hopeful beat. It's just great! I'm a sucker for songs that have that kind of shift into a calm melody (as evident with some of my songs) so I really love this track. It definitely gives off the feeling of a last stand!
Overall, just really good dramatic and ominous tracks (as well as the groovy Sea Frog!). You did a great job!