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A jam submission

DREAMCHASERView project page

Submission for the OST Composing Jam #7. Written, recorded and produced by Junpei.
Submitted by Junpei! — 4 hours, 8 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Quality#1193.8954.118
Overall#2603.4943.694
Impression#2833.3943.588
Correlation to theme#3143.4503.647
Composition#3233.3943.588
Creativity#3803.3383.529

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
Genre is a mixture of classical piano, electronic and experimental.

Message from the artist
G'luck to all participants! Excited to hear what everyone cooked.

Theme

Inside my world
Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
Based on the game jam's theme ("Inside My World"), DREAMCHASER takes you on a journey through dreamland, where night is the only time of day, and reality is whatever you make it. But, if our dreams can become reality, what, then, is the nature of our waking experiences?

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/Smc1EBdkVLYCxeKz8
YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq_SjAg8TNoXmfLNpwAbt4aDa05WWzIjc&si=LurOwI3EfrBmMZbL

Number of tracks
8

Genre

Electronic
Ambient
Classical
Experimental
Pop
Synthwave/Retro

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (CC BY)

Any project

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Comments

Submitted

I adore this type of electronic music. Your sound selection and composition throughout was incredible. From the first track I was reminded of Celeste, so I was immediately positively biased towards your sound LOL. Love the percussion too. This is one of my favorites I've seen so far :)

The quantity and quality of work put out is completely stellar, amazing stuff!

Submitted (2 edits)

OH YES, I LOVE LONG SOUNDTRACKS!!1!

(I confess in advance: I danced to your soundtrack)

The Echo is True - And from the very start, this soundtrack feels like... A song? A retro song! (And like a song I've heard somewhere, heh)

Moonlight Hollow - I hear the moon, a small admixture of hip-hop (sorry), space and retro vibes... cool! I also liked the very end of the song very much (I do not know why)...

Endless Night - Hmm... interesting chord progression, groovy rhythm and TYN TYN TYN TYN ... In a word: it's something very soulful (The brightest synthesizer seems to be singing to me about something important, mystical and mysterious... Oh, right, I forgot to turn off the stove)

Nightmare Creek - Oh, it's a piano... piano. It's fun)

Solitude Of Night - WHOO!! Time... Rooftop parties? I definitely have associations with watching space and having fun on the roof... heh...

Serious Moonlight Is Good... This is definitely my favorite track! It has a combination of everything I like about experimental synthesizer (The piano still fits perfectly into the magic of synthesizers)

Dark Night Of The Soul - CREEPY PIANO AHHH

Dreamchaser is the most important track of the entire soundtrack... Cool! Good overall dynamics, melody progress and additional layering of music down to the incredible sound and magic of the syntwave... cool!

I liked your synthwave! It was definitely a groovy syntwave that fits well with some retro-style game...

Thanks!

Submitted(+1)

The COntinued Quest To Rate Albums With Few Ratings To Hopefully get Some In Return

The synthy, warm textures are enjoyable as is the general writing. I thinkl the piano at times sounds a tad stiff and mechanical, but overall a very consistent entry that I could imagine working well for a few types of games. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the review! I shall do the same in return for your submission. o7

And yeah, I'm not a huge fan of how the piano sounds tbh. While it was all performed via a midi keyboard, I def could've done a few more things to make it sound prettier (especially if I had more time).

Submitted

Is it maybe just quantised a bit too aggressively? I usually use the humanise function once or twice after every quantisation. 

Submitted(+1)

A very consistent and full OST. My favorite tracks were The echo Tree and  Serious moonlight!

Developer

I am very happy with Echo Tree and Serious Moonlight, so it's great to hear they're your favorite! It def means a lot.

Yhanks!

Submitted(+1)

Nice synthwave sounds! I really enjoy this music style. Also quite a bit of music you composed, congratulations!

Submitted(+1)

Great submission! Dark Night of The Soul was my favorite piece!

Developer(+1)

Tysm! The fact that song is your favorite makes me so happy. Much appreciated!

Submitted(+1)

Love it, sounds great and is really atmospheric, perfect to have on as background music!

Submitted(+1)

Love the sounds, nice work! Def captured that retro sounding vibe, yet you still have a unique style that suits the music well.

Submitted(+1)

Love the retrowave vibe and atmosphere, like from old games in early 2000s. Great music! 

The Echo Tree is my fav.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Love the vibes of this soundtrack! You’ve done an amazing job bringing together classical piano influence and synthwave. The mix sounds really consistent too. Your description stood out to me “journey through dreamland, where night is the only time of day, and reality is whatever you make it” - that’s badass!
Well done!

Submitted(+1)

Really nice work here! I've been watching Stranger Things recently and this reminded me a lot of that soundtrack. Nice variety of sounds, and very well produced. Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Welp, here's a soundtrack for those long nighttime drives. Well done my friend!

Submitted(+1)

Amazing Soundtrack