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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Correlation to theme | #47 | 4.108 | 4.108 |
| Quality | #65 | 4.081 | 4.081 |
| Overall | #68 | 3.957 | 3.957 |
| Impression | #88 | 3.865 | 3.865 |
| Composition | #95 | 3.919 | 3.919 |
| Creativity | #124 | 3.811 | 3.811 |
Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Storyline: Mia is a 24-year-old art student who starts to dream the same thing over and over again. In her dream she is 8 years old, and appears in a kind of magical forest that looks like the drawings she made when she was little. In order to sleep peacefully again she needs to heal the traumas of her childhood that are presented in her dream, but if she lets herself be carried away by anger she will wake up, and she will have to try all over again.
Genre/style: Platformer, roguelike, pixel art.
Tracks
Title: Music that plays in the game menu, represents Mia's journey back to her childhood, where she finds everything she felt as a little girl.
Find Myself: Music that appears in the first zone of the dream, is where most of Mia's good childhood memories are presented. It represents the pure soul of Mia as a little girl.
Evil Thoughts: This music is presented in one of the most advanced areas of the dream, Mia has to deal with the intrusive thoughts that haunt her from her past to her present.
A mix of lofi, with ambient and electronic music. Composed and produced in Cubase.
Message from the artist
So happy to participate in this jam!
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
Both the photo and the theme were a strong inspiration to imagine this game. I tried to use sounds and chord progressions that evoked a dreamy (and sometimes aquatic) mood, that also matched the color palette (or rather the perception we give to those colors), and that at the same time produced strong emotions, like the one we can see on the girl's face. I also wanted to experiment with a kind of lofi style to evoke the nostalgia a person feels when connecting with their childhood, since in the plot of my imaginary game the protagonist meets a child version of herself, and her deepest emotions.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/gianlucafaccilongo/sets/mias-dream
Number of tracks3
Genre
Soundtrack use permission
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Comments
This! This is the type of music I fancy, unBELIEVABLE combination of ambience & electronic sounds. It all blends so well.
Personal favorite is Find Myself, that pluck synth in the background makes everything just so good, can't really explain it but it's perfect :D
Thank you for your kind words Xurai! So glad you enjoyed it :)
Great sounds, nailed the dreamy and surreal atmosphere. Especially liked the soundscape of Evil Thoughts. There's a lot going on, it's fitting with the track's context. I think you ended up with a nice mix of the genres you were going for. Liked it!
Thank you so much for the positive feedback! :D
Nice traks. I specialy enjoy the second one!!
Nice work, though your theremin-vox sound left me with some sci-fi vibes :) Anyway, cool work with lo-fi sounds and dreamy vibes!
Thanks a lot! Yeah I chose that sound mostly because it seemed expressive and could help evoke nostalgic emotions, but I totally understand how it can deliver sci fi vibes as well. Thank you for that feedback!
This is such a weird OST and I love it! Definitely imagining a Celeste-adjacent game in terms of style and presentation. Excellent work.
Thank you very much Jacob! I'm glad you liked its weirdness haha :) Celeste was such an inspiration for this, I love that OST.
"Evil Thoughts" has a cool sinister vibe throughout I like the strange "cat meow"-like synth lead at the beginning. The groove and piano melody introduced around a minute in have a nice impact . Also like the transition to layered synths for the climax. The bells were nice too. Very cool piece.
"Find Myself" is very chill and I enjoyed the synth melody. One thought I had while listening to it was that it'd be cool if that shimmering note would pan left to right and then vice versa the next time it played, bounce back and forth.
I liked "Title" as well. The bell motiff adds a sense of adventure.
Thanks a lot for your comments DSound ! Totally agree about the shimmering synth sound, I think that panning would work really well, thanks for that! Heading up to your OST right now :)
This OST is super creative! The composition of these pieces really give off this dreamy vibe. I find myself really groovin with Evil Thoughts, it definitly gives more of that unknown scary vibe. I can feel Mia getting angry through the buildups in this track.
Something else I just felt was that this music reminds me so much of Phoenix wright, and I think it's the intensity of the compositions. There is real feeling and emotion behind each track, and considering your story, that was the right call!
Really good job! I give it 9 paralysis demons out of 10!
Thanks a lot Tommy! Such an honor that you mentioned Phoenix Wright, great music there. Maybe my biggest inspiration for this was Celeste, I really like the haunting/dreamy/unknown vibe there. Gonna check your project right now!