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A jam submission

Composing Jam #7 (24 Hour OST Rush)View project page

Submitted by TurtleBox (@TheTurtleBox) — 14 hours, 9 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Correlation to theme#1323.8683.868
Creativity#2463.5793.579
Overall#3353.3633.363
Quality#3913.2633.263
Impression#4383.1053.105
Composition#4933.0003.000

Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
First things first, I accidentally gated myself into a 24-30 hour period for this project. I'm happy that it's not my best work, but I am happy that I believe it tells the story I wished to tell.

That of the character named Echo. Echo has become victim of a foul curse running it's course through her world. A curse that inflicts a "Forever-sleep" onto those it infects.

Echo, being the latest victim of said curse, must explore her memories, subconcious, and dreams and solve puzzles in an attempt to return to the Waking-World. Each Track serves as a point within the story,

Inside my World explores the vibrant and whimsical world in where Echo lives, every day she explores and ventures around the Island Sanctuary in where she lives. The soft pads and synth lead of the track represent the peace within her world, and the harsh obnoxious trumpets represent her personality and desires for fun and adventure clashing with the upcoming disaster the world must faced.

Inside Phantazia works as a meta track, setting up for the players that this game takes place within the same world and timeline as Phantazia-64, another "fake" game I developed a soundtrack for, using the exact same software, soundfonts, and taken from the same inspirations. This track takes the joyous tones of track 1 and twist them into a sort of ominous melody as Echo enters her Forever sleep

Inside my Guilt is Echo coming to terms with waking up in her own mind, a world in which she is the creator. She discovers the world within her mind, dreams, and subconcious is full of mystery and puzzles alike, and that if she wishes to escape she must solve her way through as many of them as possible.

The new three tracks follow the levels of the game. Inside my World is imaginged as a platform puzzler game with no combat. Inside my Fear explores Echo's fear of the world outside the Island, the ancient temples scattered around it's dense forest, and life after death. She must solve puzzles and avoid traps in a chamber of her subconcious which serves as a large sphere with inverting surfaces. To escape, she must create a path in a sort of Rubix Cube style puzzle, turning the dead outside of the sphere around and into the lively orb that is the Island home she wishes to return to.

Inside my Bravery is a trial of determination and willpower. Echo must navigate a river on a small canoe she remembers from her childhood. Memories of her being seperated from her family on the canoe but eventually finding them inspire her to push through the laughing fog and shadow creatures that watch her from the shoreline.

Inside my Innocence is the theme for a puzzle in where Echo must convince Death herself that she deserves to wake up, in which Death explains to her the purpose of the curse, the presence of comfort in the afterlife, and that we do not choose our fate. After proving herself worthy of a bargin with Death by solving "Death's Design" (A series of the games most challenging puzzles) Echo is given the choice. Wake up, or Rest in Peace.

Inside my Comfort is Echo accepting fate as it is. Believing to have waken up from her Forever-Sleep on the beaches she remembers fondly from Childhood. In her confusion, she discovered she has slept through much of life and is now a young adult. She looks over her shoulders to see her village has grown, and she smiles as she hears the joy and laughter of other humans for the first time in what has felt like weeks.

Inside my Heart is Echo in an ending in where she believes her waking up upon the beach is a fair illusion at the hands of Lady Death. Surely she cannot have just "Grown up" while asleep. She hears the laughter of the village, and sees the world around her only changed for the better, deep down she fears the worst but smiles ready to accept that she truly is, and always will be, Inside her World.

Theme

Inside my world
Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
The titling of each track, as well as each segment of the "game" representing Echo travelling throughout a different paret of a world created within her subconcious.

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/theturtlebox/sets/24-hour-ost-jam-7?si=3d65d8f3b5124ffb89fa80b1d3482675&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Number of tracks
8

Genre

Chiptune
Electronic
Ambient
Experimental

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (CC BY)

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Submitted

You had some really unique and interesting instruments! I like the atmosphere you created and the tone you set with each track. This is really impressive for 24 hours! My favorite tracks were "Inside My Innocence" and "Inside My Heart". Thank you for sharing this!

Submitted

Long soundtrack...? I LOVE LONG SOUNDTRACKS!

Inside my World - AOAH I LOVE THIS TRACK IN MY EARS! And when the... trumpets, it starts to sound especially interesting! Happy ambient)

Inside Phantazia - Hehehe... this soundtrack reminded me of the groovy atmosphere of Magicka.... thanks! I like that "frog" singing combined with..... kazoo? (What's that instrument in my right ear?!)

Inside my Guilt - Heh... despite the title and the slightly sad melody... the drums turn it into a melancholic funk) I like it!

Inside my Fear - Good... Good idea with the effects of "old" music, it makes you feel as if all the main fears of the hero appeared so long ago that all those creepy voices that created all his fears have long ago distorted into a creepy chorus full of humiliation towards the hero...

Inside my Bravery - "I'm brave!... but I'm still scared!" is the devis of this track.

Inside my Innocence - "It's not my fault!..... I'm sorry," is the devis of this track.

Inside my Comfort - I feel calm and... happiness? Now all the old memories have been erased and "comfortable" thoughts have taken their place! Now, even if I look at my past - it seems insignificant to me, thanks to new thoughts! I have overcome a world full of fears, guilt and creepy voices! yoohoo!!1!

Inside my Heart - "At least I have my heart and my fantasies!" - the devis of this story-ending track.

I like the general idea with the titles! It's like- like each track is a little journey into each of the main character's bits and pieces... cool! The overall sound is cool and fitting for the game!

Thanks for the fascinating journey into someone's mind!

Submitted

Very relaxing soundtrack. It's a little bit longer than I expected, but I enjoyed its style. Solid production, great work!

Developer

Just curious, how long were you expecting it to be?

Submitted

Well, eight songs at about two and a half minutes per song equals a runtime of 20 minutes, compared to your runtime of 25:54. I just didn't expect you to have three songs over four minutes, since it is a game OST.

Submitted

Inside my world - the keys/synth is very warm and cozy while the brass is fun and quirky. It was a great idea to have sections with and without brass because there is nice contrast!

Inside phantazia - cool sound choices. Dreamlike yes, but more nostalgic than ominous to me. The banjo sound in particular has a rustic charm to it.

Inside my guilt - creative use of rhythm here, kind of alternating between a swing in 4 feel to a straight 3 feel.

Inside my fear - love this track! The pad sound combined with the echo effects are beautiful - particularly love the vibes. The crackle is peak ambience. I was waiting for this track to explode into a breakbeat - could work for an alternate version with a synth lead maybe?

Inside my bravery - really nice open harmony in the pads! And interesting pitch drifting. This track goes on for a while without much change - I personally wouldn’t mind shorter tracks, especially since we know that most game music is meant to be looped!

Inside my innocence - beautiful instrumentation and groove especially in that slightly dissonant gamelan(?) sound.

Inside my comfort - great emotional melodic writing! It would be cool to have a contrasting section where everything shrinks down to a solo instrument, maybe piano playing the melody over arpeggiated chords?

Inside my heart - really beautiful way to close out the soundtrack. Nice extensions in the string harmonies. There’s a wonderful tension between the primal percussion and the sophisticated strings. This would be so beautiful with a solo violin melody on top! This is tied with Inside my innocence as my favorites!

Overall: I love the journey you’re taking us on - the game you are writing for definitely feels like an emotional one. And you captured the 2000s sound very well - I’m reminded of Pseudoregalia in some of these tracks and Undertale in others, and it sounds very cohesive! This is already a fantastic soundtrack - some contrasting harmony in B sections with melodies would push it over the top for me. But considering you did this in 24 hours, I have no real complaints. Awesome work!

Submitted

Impressive work in such a short time! Nice submission!

Submitted (1 edit)

Nicely done for 24 hours props to you. I would've switched Fear with Innocence I think it makes more sense from what i'm hearing and what I read from the description.  Great concept, Good job !

Submitted

8 tracks composed in 24 hours is INSANE!!!

i like how your tracks have a deal of simplicity but are interwoven with personality, for instance, your introduction of brass in your first track. my only critique is that in some tracks you can definitely tell there was a time crunch and it felt a little repetitive and robotic - in the future, i'd love to see what you could do with more time! you're clearly VERY skilled to be able to accomplish this much in such a short amount of time. 

GREAT work!

Submitted

Nice submission! There were a lot of harmonic ideas that I enjoyed, like the chord progression in “Inside My Guilt”. The constant trumpet falls in “Inside my World” were a little distracting. My favorite track was “Inside My Innocence”, loved the synth chords. You did a good job making each track have its own identity.

Good work!

Submitted

i love the lo-fi drum machine type percussion you have here!! inside phantazia is also such a unique idea for a track, i love meta game stuff.  the whole lo-fi soundfonty vibe of the soundtrack is nostalgic and reminds me of childhood, which is fitting for having to sift through memories. really love this one <3

Submitted

Thanks for reviewing my entry on your stream it was super neat to hear somewhat react to it live!

A lot of these tracks felt like they could play in a zelda dungeon with their lowkey melodies and sort of puzzle like droning they had going on. I liked it!

Also completely off topic but I was on twitter the other day and I saw a quote retweet that was quoting you. I saw the profile picture and I was like, "wait a minute? That's the person who reviewed my music live!" Just a weird 2 worlds collide moment I wanted to share.

Submitted

I like the instruments at some compositions. Inside my innocence reminds me of Yume Nikki for some reason.  Like it would definitely fit some of the scenes there.

Submitted

I love the dusty almost cassette-like percussion you use, really adds to the vibey tone you have. Honestly all the instrument choices are great! The production style is also cool, I'm really surprised you did so much of this in one day! Great work!

Submitted

1st track - interesting use of brass stuff, 2nd track - 2nd track you've got like 'this is a bustling world where day to day life is going on' with the swing-beat. 3rd track - got your introspection going on with the descending half-tone melody.   I must say for the rest and all of it - going down each emotion was a neat take.  Very pleased with this submission overall.

Submitted

You got a really impressive amount done in the time you had!

I love the approach you've taken with this, it has the feeling of a classic retro soundtrack but with a more modern and abstract/experimental twist that really works, sounds great and is totally to my tastes.

Really strong motifs and melodies throughout and great choices of instruments.

Inside my innocence possibly my favourite, love what you did on that one but I was a big fan of quite a few.

Submitted

i liked the overall vibe here! it fit the theme very well, and i liked your naming scheme! also, i noticed your use of soundfonts, especially earthbound lmao (i may be obsessed)

Developer

If I've used anything from Earthbound I'm super interested in knowing what. I think I said it on stream but at one point I installed something close to 30g of Sondfonts, went threw them in a weekend, and put the ones I liked in one megafolder. 

Anyways, I'm super glad you liked it! 

Submitted (3 edits)

As someone who only had 2 days to work on the jam, I laughed a little seeing "24 hour OST Rush" on your title cos mood. Kudos to you for completing so many tracks in such a short amount of time! And they're all so catchy!! My favourites are Inside Phantazia and Inside My Comfort. Great work~

Submitted

The feel of  "Inside my world" is endearing in a strange way, reminds of some other game tracks that have that intentional time looseness going on. 

The soundtrack in general gives me Stardew vibes a little, and I'm super impressed you got it all in such a small turnaround! Really great job.

Submitted

I like the atmosphere and the instrumentation, they fit well into the theme. I appreciate the composition fitting incredibly well at conveying what is going on and what emotions you want the audience to feel, sometimes I feel other mixes tend to get sidetracked or afraid of that aspect. Not to mention, this is all done within 30 hours, that is incredibly impressive. My favorite track is "Inside my Fear", it feels mysterious and I love everything about it. Great work!

Submitted

Great work for being limited to 30 hours only! Each track brings it's own uniqueness and keeps you guessing in a sense. I do have one small critique to add tho and that is I feel as if the tracks are somewhat repetitive in nature, but that's understandable since you had such short time to create the OST (and plus, my OST is probably more repetitive anyways lol). Everything else from the sound design, use of instruments, and atmosphere I love tho!

My favorite song would definitely have to be "Inside My Comfort," but that's probably because I love well done calm and peaceful tracks. Although all the songs are great in their own way regardless!

Overall just an impressively done submission for just 30 hours, equipped with some creativity and uniqueness!

That's all I have to say really, have a good day :D

Submitted

How the hell do you get this much done in 24 hours, I barely was able to scrape my measly 1 track submission in the same amount of time xD

It's a super easy listen and fits all your theme super well. This could definitely be in a contemporary 2D RPG without any doubt! I loved that Inside my Guilt you repeated the same little section multiple times, it's like you're stuck with your guilt!

I love Inside my Fear & Inside my Innocence!

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