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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Composition | #17 | 4.350 | 4.350 |
| Impression | #26 | 4.150 | 4.150 |
| Overall | #83 | 3.910 | 3.910 |
| Quality | #105 | 3.950 | 3.950 |
| Creativity | #131 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Correlation to theme | #381 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Lately I've been listening to the Chrono Cross soundtrack and that played a big part in the inspiration for this jam. So I went for a folky-ethnic ambient kind of sound.
I used one leitmotif as a base in all compositions and tried to adapt it to different moods.
Also, I haven't thought much about what kind of game it would be suitable for, but I'm thinking of something like an RPG with a story where the main character lives in a dream-like world and has the ability to manipulate people's dreams, he goes on different adventures, and of course there are some edginess and dark themes.
Here's the representation of the tracks:
๐๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ: Main menu theme, relaxing and dreamy.
๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐: The place where the game starts, the home of protagonist.
๐๐ง ๐๐ฒ ๐ช๐๐ฒ: Plays as you explore the world (I'm thinking of like a small map where you move your little character around, like in a lot of old jrpgs).
๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ช๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ : This plays when you go to the forest, but as you go deeper and deeper you begin to notice how the trees start to look more and more dead and everything is shrouded in a dark fog.
๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐
๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ: While exploring the forest and hiding from the nightmares that inhabit it, you begin to catch the dreams of people who have been lost here for a long time. You understand that their dreams made the forest what it is. Time to fix it!
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐: And then you..wait, The end? What do you mean?! Isn't there like a resolution to this whole story you've been telling us? Or is this a cliffhanger? Oh, whatever..I'll just go to bed..
I used FL studio and soundfonts, as well as samples from old sampling CD's.
โฑ หกแตแตแต แตโฑแถปแถปแต
Message from the artist
There was supposed to be another track for a battle theme, but I didn't have much time left, so everything sounds a bit rough on edges.
โฑ แตแตโฟ'แต หกโฑแตแต สทแตแตแตสณ, หขแต โฑ สฒแตหขแต แตสณโฑโฟแต แตโฑแถปแถปแต
Theme
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/shrodeko/sets/memento-somnium-ost-composing-jam-7?si=7aadb32945ba408cbf51f954f8038598&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7-jOwf4bQ
Number of tracks6
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Comments
Get Ready - I'm ready!
Vivid Village - AHHH SCOTLAND (I like it)
On My Way - Someone gave the Scots a guitar...
Something Wrong - It seems that someone took the guitar from the Scot
Suspicious Forest - The Scotsman got angry and went into the forest (Now we need to find the lost Scotsman)
The End - We found the Scotsman on the riverbank. He sat peacefully and stared into the water... what was he thinking?
(Please excuse my interpretation of the tracks... heh...)
Overall, it was a fun, high-quality and, most importantly, atmospheric soundtrack! You did a great job making ethnic music! (But I still hear Scots everywhere, lol)
Thanks!
Actually, quite an amazing interpretation! (I'm now thinking of Scotsman from Samurai Jack lol) Many Thx! :)
Heh)
These are super well-made and made me feel reflective and immersed throughout. You're talented at using this soundfont style. Sampling old CDs is a nice touch as well, I'm not too sure where they are in the tracks but I'm guessing the more sfx and ambient stuff? Like the background noises in "Something Wrong". (Which is my fav btw it's so quirky.)
Thanks! I mostly used multisampled patches from CD's like Hans Zimmer Guitars and Peter Siedlaczek's Classical Choir, and for ambient and sfx stuff there were used a bunch of samples from Distorted Reality and Alien Guitars
Funnily enough I have been listening to a relaxing PS1 music compilation lately and Chrono Cross songs keep coming up - you have really nailed the PS1 RPG sound! The variety in each song is impressive, I love Vivid Village's unique instrument choices and the way Something Wrong slowly pitches down makes for a lovely creepy feeling. My favourite track has to be Suspicious Forest, the guitar loop sounds fantastic, I love the Mitsuda-esque percussion and the choir adds a great, slightly supernatural atmosphere.
Incredible work overall!
"On My Way" was my favorite of your entries ^_^
Fantastic Job !!
the SNES RPG vibes are heavy with this one! It all sounds really great!
My favorites were absolutely Vivid Village and also suspicious Forest. They were so much fun. Vivid village more so!
Just Fantastic all around!
Actually I had to come back almost instantly! Suspicious forest might be one of my favorite tracks in the entire jam!
every song in this is amazingg. on my way is my favorite but the rest are still incredible. :} !!!!!
Admittedly I have not listened to much of the Chrono Cross soundtrack, but from what i have heard you matched the style really well, and i love the goofier elements of things like "Something Wrong", that playfulness quickly turning into unnerve and then anxiety is really really cool
Love how you processed all the sounds, really powers up the soundfonts and they feel so wide! Love how you arrangemented them too, a lot of love went into the melodies and all the little embellishes. Really feels lik a hommage to the game idea and inspos well!
Im a big fan of your submission :) There was alot of variety between tracks and Im a sucker for the DX7 sounding keyboards in the opening track. Alot of the guitar work sounding convincing as well and I thought that the tracks sounded like the areas of the game you were trying to portray.
The first track is calming, I liked the guitar on "On My Way", it sounds very authentic. "Something Wrong" reminds me of a track from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (too lazy to find the track).
"Suspicious Forest" is probably my fav track, it sounds so mysterious with the pads that appear on times.
Sometimes the music felt dense and some parts could be mixed better, but the composition is solid!
Such a well put together submission! Each song has this ambient but adventurous feel to them that many games in the late 90s (like Chrono Cross) and early 2000s had. Suspicious Forest was a song I thoroughly enjoyed. Great Job!
Wow, this is one of my favorites. You mentioned being inspired by Chrono Cross and I can really hear it. Well done!
Wow what a vibe. Your soundtrack made me travel from ocean depths to highest peaks. Good job
This is beautifully composed. I love the ambient feels and the soft, comforting piano. The instrumentation used really compliments the feeling you were going for. I especially love Suspicious Forest
You perfectly captured the classic JRPG composition style with a more modern production aesthetic which I found to be quite charming. Overall, you covered a wide range of emotions and vibes within just 6 tracks, my favorite being Suspicious Forest for the rhythmic interplay between various instruments. Great work!
this is great! vivid village through to suspicious forest are all highlights and will be stuck in my head for a while. you've nailed the chrono cross vibe here and it works so well
Get ready sounds very dreamy, spot on! Love the instrumentation in Vivid Village. bag pipe with that oriental (Sitar?) thingy, very unique. On my Way is beautiful too. Could listen to this for hours. Something Wrong really sounds wrong haha. What a cool effect, also whimsical in a not too serious kind of way. Suspicious Forest has a lot of depth, great attention to detail (panning L/R). Ending theme is very nostalgic and feels like the end!
Excellent job on this soundtrack! Would fit really well with a slower paced kind of game, definitely a RPG of some sort.
Minor detail, my Latin is a bit rusty, but I think it should be memento somnorum. ;)
Thanks a lot! And yeah, I guess you're right about Latin, thanks for pointing that out :)