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The World Looks Gray's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #73 | 3.971 | 3.971 |
| Impression | #277 | 3.412 | 3.412 |
| Overall | #290 | 3.435 | 3.435 |
| Quality | #328 | 3.441 | 3.441 |
| Composition | #363 | 3.294 | 3.294 |
| Correlation to theme | #480 | 3.059 | 3.059 |
Ranked from 34 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
generally experimental electronic (ambient?), game is intended to be smth of an exploration (or puzzle?) thing in 2d or top down in pixel arty style with strange surrealist visuals, first 2 tracks are set in a bleak city with little choice and such, everyone works and then sleeps in their pods and then works, and you work in the lab and make discoveries about oddities in the world, but the lab reactor gets detonated in a raid by people who hate the pods because it powers the pods, and then you get yanked from your research into some caves like nothing youve ever seen in your time in the samey gray city, but you push through all the weird colors and crystals and plants and eventually break out of the ground into a forest with no sign of the city, and the forest doesnt stay still in a non euclidian way. everything made in fl studio and everything has down sampling from the effector plugin to various levels, lots of vital manipulation with rudimentary waveforms and some stranger sounds, composition is kinda different between the two of us but its a lot of spontaneous ideas and then some of the opposite, meticulous planning and more automation clips
Message from the artist
hi its 4 am and i have to go to breakfast tomorrow, see you again next time
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
mr unnamed worker is in his world where hes happy and making discoveries about the world in his lab and then hes NOT and everything is weird and hes not in his world anymore.
picture theme mostly was just used for the musical vibe with the ambient but it had a big part on worldbuilding so i feel like i should include that, just bc the idea of a dreamland of sorts
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/side-character-c/sets/the-world-looks-gray
Number of tracks4
Genre
Soundtrack use permission
Any non-commercial project
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Comments
Hey! The world is not that gray! There's orange!
Pretty experimental work. It has its own charm! Sounds like an ambient to a seemingly cute but creepy game)
The Cave is my favorite) It feels like the underwater levels in old games.
I really liked the ambiance behind the tracks, reminded a lot of the Mother series with its more mysterious themes. I do think some of tracks could've been mixed better, as a whole some moments felt quiet when I feel they shouldn't have been. Great job!
i 100% agree with the mixing stuff, i got stuck in another state with my laptop for half the competition and struggled with approximating volumes to my regular setup because everything was far louder outside of fl, but thanks regardless!
edit version 2 wait they arent that quiet why were they so much quieter on my phone this needs investigation
I actually kind of liked a couple of the songs. But I think your blue and yellow cover needs a little bit of fixing.