I guess everyone talked about the guitar, it’s really good for the sound, but it’s also super well written so great job. The whole OST was really enjoyable and well done.
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Mari's World's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #206 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Impression | #229 | 3.524 | 3.524 |
| Composition | #282 | 3.476 | 3.476 |
| Overall | #303 | 3.419 | 3.419 |
| Quality | #351 | 3.381 | 3.381 |
| Correlation to theme | #481 | 3.048 | 3.048 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
I'm usually a big hater on the themes for some events but I loved the picture theme here. I loved that the girl was dressed in ostensibly traditional East Asian clothes (maybe I could use something like a shamisen pluck synth?). I loved that she was underwater (maybe I could be playful with the lowpass filters?). I loved there were all these childish drawings and particularly the implication of all that "imagination-land" evoking material superimposed with what appears to be a motherly shape in a bubble dancing with the girl, as if this were a place where the child can cope with the loss of a loved one. That felt ripe for some kind of "twisted lullaby" feel.
That was ambitious though and I spent the first few days noodling with Asian plucks and other nonsense and feeling uninspired. I did ultimately find some chord progressions that I liked with a Kontakt guitars and so that formed the basis of a lot of the motif development. It unfortunately never got very loop-able so it comes across more strictly narrative-driven and linear than I might like repeating in the background of a game, but I'm generally happy with its direction.
I did misunderstand the submission guidelines and so instead of a playlist, I just prepared a single file. There are 6 "tracks" (which are maybe easier to tell apart in the soundcloud link version):
1) Welcome to Mari's World
2) Reclaim
3) Sweat and Tears
4) Oh Am I Not What You Expected?
5) To Terms
6) Isn't What Drives Most People Childish?
They were meant to follow some elements of a story circle: You, Need, Go, Find, Return, and Change.
Theme
Picture theme
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/anthony-phillip-katona/frkatona-maris-world
Number of tracks6
Genre
Chiptune
Rock/Metal
Pop
Soundtrack use permission
Yes (CC BY)
Any project
Comments
I'm sure it's exactly like you'd guess, I forgot to make/choose an image until the very last second and so I found the first image on my computer that looked relatively unique. Come to think of it, I should have cited the creator. It was in a friend's PhD thesis and I'm 90% sure she made it herself. Her name is (now Dr.) Emma Van Burns. It's meant to illustrate plasmons in metal nanoparticles resonating with the electric field of light
And thank you for listening and your kind comment!
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