| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #131 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Composition | #140 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Quality | #142 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Impression | #240 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Overall | #258 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Correlation to theme | #591 | 2.600 | 2.600 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
YOU CAN LISTEN HERE:
https://soundcloud.com/poard/sets/half-thinking
My submission's only 5 tracks so it's easily digestible!
I used FL Studio for all of the music that I made, but had also used FamiTracker for some of the songs. (I wrote some of the melodies/basslines in FamiTracker and exported them to be used as audio in FL Studio.) For the rest of the music, I used a mixture of soundfonts and realistic-sounding instruments for variety.
The image theme looked very abstract and dream-like to me, so I imagined the game would be similar to games like Yume Nikki and OneShot. I actually took inspiration from a film called Cat Soup, which also has a similar dream-like tone that I think the theme conveyed. Some of the tracks like Big Whale Circus are directly inspired by scenes from that film.
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
So, I had made a bit of a train-of-thought type of connection, but initially, I had interpreted the theme in a bit of a morbid way. In the image, there's one character in an obviously dream-like environment, underwater with imaginary fish and a their mother(?) beside them. Along with the text, "inside my world," I kind of figured that it would only make sense that we're referring to the girl's imaginary world, which also includes the parental figure.
Going back to my main inspiration for my submission, I mainly used the events of Cat Soup as a framework for the songs I made. It's a very abstract, dream-like film! On first watch, I thought it was very whimsical and cheery, but on reflection, the movie carries a lot of morbid undertones and has a bittersweet ending.
My point is, I feel like this jam's theme also conveys that implied sad feeling, which is why I think my submission fits it! I hope my music does a good job at sounding cheery on a surface level, but ever so slightly sorrowful.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/poard/sets/half-thinking
Number of tracks5
Genre
Soundtrack use permission
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