This is a really interesting piece that you’ve constructed. There’s a great sense of story arch and there are some great contrasting moments. You could maybe vary the way you use the piano and some of the fx, as this would just add more layers to the colours you use. The harmonic approach is maybe a tad abstract for a game soundtrack, but it gives it it’s own sense of character and draws the listener in :)
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The Abyss Of Lost Dreams's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #44 | 4.100 | 4.100 |
| Impression | #218 | 3.550 | 3.550 |
| Overall | #230 | 3.560 | 3.560 |
| Composition | #272 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Correlation to theme | #311 | 3.450 | 3.450 |
| Quality | #419 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Title: Abyss Of Lost Dreams
Artist: AuderMarr
Year: 2024
Running Time: 5:24
DESCRIPTION - Composition written in the loose form of a concerto for piano and strings. It is structured in 7 sections narrating the intro cutscene of an imaginary game.
THE CONCEPT - By getting inspired by the main image shown in the competition page, I have envisioned the extremely sad story, set in a fictional Far Eastern country during the early 20th Century, of a little girl obsessed with the sea who tragically drowns in it after strolling around her town with her mother during a sacred holiday. Because of an ancient curse cast by a cruel god, whoever drowns during that holiday is condemned to live in a limbo between life and death under the very waters that have swallowed them. A community of benevolent water spirits, touched by her tragic fate, decide to take her in and manage to transform her in a hybrid between a human and one of their kin, in order to break the curse; by doing this, though, they strip her of the eternal condition that would have expected her, so she will age and die exactly like one of them.
Once becoming a young woman, she decides to go and face the cruel god on her own, determined to interrupt the curse action once and for all, so that no one will ever go through what she almost risked to experience. The imaginary game I have composed this pièce for should exactly carry the player through her dangerous journey to accomplish her mission.
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SCENES
I. Life In The Abyss (0:00)
II. Memories Resurface (1:10)
III. The Sacred Holiday Fair (1:38)
IV. By The Sea (2:24)
V. A Tragic Swim (2:54)
VI. From Despair To Hope (3:34)
VII. A New Existence (4:23)
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICS
DAW - Reaper 7.18
VST Instruments: AIR MiniGrand, Orchestools Strings
Message from the artist
I'm open for any criticism or suggestion in order to improve (and expand) the pièce in the future. Thank you in advance!
Theme
Picture theme
How does it fit the theme?
The woman in the story narrated in the pièce is trapped in alien world that came to know at her expense because of her tragic fate, but nonetheless, in the imaginary game I have in mind, she is determined to exit her condition
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/user-810475948/the-abyss-of-lost-dreams
Number of tracks1
Genre
Orchestral
Soundtrack use permission
Yes (CC BY)
Any project
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