Great job on your submission! Enjoyed listening to the various styles that were mixed together in your music. Our Final Conversation was nice and airy, and then that bass was juicy!
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the shutdown's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Impression | #302 | 3.353 | 3.444 |
| Creativity | #305 | 3.461 | 3.556 |
| Composition | #337 | 3.353 | 3.444 |
| Overall | #358 | 3.331 | 3.422 |
| Correlation to theme | #382 | 3.299 | 3.389 |
| Quality | #422 | 3.190 | 3.278 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Story:
"The Shutdown" is a game centered around a scientist working on the first fully sentient robot companion. His efforts are abruptly halted by a global ban on robotics and A.I. technology.
Before the law takes full effect, he decides to explore the world that the AI had envisioned before gaining consciousness. Here, he discovers the vibrant and colorful world dreamed up entirely by the robot, living a day filled with forming relationships and creating new memories.
However, he is eventually faced with the inevitable: pressing the shutdown button...
Soundtrack:
https://soundcloud.com/lexpalth/sets/shutting-down/s-Ni5VNcEMI56?si=6bf4565ec1b7...
All tracks are crafted to blend "real" and "natural" instrumentation with elements typically associated with "electronic" and "computer" sounds, symbolizing the human interaction with a world conceived within a robot's mind.
alive: This song is for a cutscene which plays in the latter half of the game, depicting flashbacks of the player's journey and the decisions they've made. It serves to remind players of the moments experienced throughout their journey—happy, sad, easy, and challenging ones.
our final conversation: Featured during the end credits, this track portrays the emotional difficulty of saying goodbye, knowing it must be done. It unfolds the process of pressing the shutdown button from beginning to end, capturing the rising emotions and memories until that world is completely erased.
Genres are: chiptune, rock, orchestral.
I used Ableton to compose this project.
Message from the artist
Thanks for the jam's organizers and the judges. This gave me a lot of motivation to work on some music!
Also big thanks for letting me submit a tiny bit late because I had some technical difficulties
Theme
Inside my world
How does it fit the theme?
The player plays as a scientists who gets to visit the world dreamed by their own creation, blurring the line between his and their worlds.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/lexpalth/sets/shutting-down/s-Ni5VNcEMI56?si=cedd91276ad1459c8856897e4e0fe933&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Number of tracks2
Genre
Chiptune
Orchestral
Electronic
Rock/Metal
Soundtrack use permission
No
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