We indeed do feel underwater you nailed the immersion on this one, great use of sound design overall. Drifting to sleep is my favourite it can also 100% be a Lofi song, just drop a drum in there and here we go you got both your game soundtrack and a LoFi song to play on the radio. Good job !
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In My Watery World's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Correlation to theme | #38 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Quality | #124 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Overall | #130 | 3.767 | 3.767 |
| Creativity | #178 | 3.714 | 3.714 |
| Impression | #190 | 3.595 | 3.595 |
| Composition | #272 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Ranked from 42 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
I wanted to follow the theme quite closely and felt that both complemented each other so I envisioned the soundtrack as being for a game following a young girl who drifts into a watery dream world inside her head when she sleeps.
I imagined the gameplay as being something along the lines of a Yume Nikki inspired indie game, alternating between feeling mysterious and joyful. Though not without a hint that there might be an element of danger.
Tracks 2 & 4 are intended to play as continuous loops so I returned to the intro and did a fade out to demonstrate this.
I would say the main genre I followed was ambient music.
I was inspired by soundtracks for games & films like Chrono Trigger, Citizen Sleeper, FEZ, Final Fantasy X, The Floor is Jelly, ICO, L.O.L, Stardew Valley, A Scene at the Sea & Sonatine.
But I also took inspiration from Kankyo Ongaku / Japanese Ambient artists like Hiroshi Yoshimura, Takashi Kokubo, Shiho Yabuki, INOYAMALAND & Fumio Miyashita.
As well as ambient & ambient dance music artists such as Global Communication, John Beltran, The Detroit Escalator Co., K-Lone, KMRU, Suzanne Kraft, Kevin McHugh, Yamaneko & Whatever The Weather.
The first track is your character drifting to sleep, then when the clock ticking fades away she leaves the waking world and emerges in her undersea dream world.
The second track is one of generally exploring the undersea dream world in a more sparse and dark area.
The 3rd track is heavily inspired by the image and imagines a brief sequence or cut scene in which your character dances with ghostly fishes like those depicted.
The Final track is similar to the second but would take place in a more hidden location like a cave in which a secret or puzzle leading to a reward would be found.
I wrote all the tracks in FL Studio.
Artwork by @kawaakar._ (https://www.instagram.com/kawaakar._/)
Theme
Inside my world
Picture theme
How does it fit the theme?
As I mentioned in the description I imagined the game as being one in which the girl depicted in the image is your character and you explore an underwater dream world she goes to in her mind when she sleeps.
In line with this I tried to make every track feels underwater, mysterious and dreamy through the sounds and musical techniques.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-watery-world
https://soundcloud.com/ordosmarkzero/sets/in-my-watery-world
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDmLaBqXhejde0mx5PIfU-ufiRvhG5HlX
Number of tracks4
Genre
Electronic
Ambient
Soundtrack use permission
No
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