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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Correlation to theme | #48 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Creativity | #54 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Impression | #86 | 2.929 | 2.929 |
| Overall | #86 | 3.043 | 3.043 |
| Composition | #88 | 2.929 | 2.929 |
| Quality | #112 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
The White Dragon and The Azure Queen is meant to represent an action-adventure style game, with an orchestral soundtrack. There are four tracks in this soundtrack album, with one representing the princess and the dragon's theme ("The Princess and the Dragon"), one representing the villains they fight ("Eye of the Beholder"), and two representing a pair of environmental soundscapes; the final battle ("Flight"), and a peaceful cathedral at the end ("The Azure Cathedral"). I composed, recorded, and mixed each track entirely in Garageband. Any and all samples are recorded with a MIDI keyboard, and some acoustic guitar elements were recorded live with a small microphone I own. The overall genre of the soundtrack is classical, with some vaguely folk-y undertones.
Message from the artist
Hope you guys enjoy this! This is my first game jam, so I'm excited to share my first real effort towards one of these sorts of things here!
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
The first song serves as a theme for the characters depicted in the art, the lady and the dragon.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/ed-chong-919810393/sets/the-white-dragon-and-the-azure?si=29f6bc80b5a44e98b5aa8f48b6222120&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Comments
The soft acoustic guitar on Flight is quite nice!
really liked the acoustic guitar in Flight
Nice work overall, awesome guitars recordings in flight. I felt like you used ostinatos a bit too much and the pieces lacked a bit of polish, especially regarding mixing (eg. the low end in flight).
You did a good job giving each track its own identity, especially given the time crunch.
I generally liked each track but I think they were all a little repetitive. I think you could condense each song and keep the same effect while retaining listeners better.
Flight was the best of the 4 because it had distinctive (if a tad repetitive) sections and I really liked the guitar.
My favorite track was flight! It was very warm and intimate feeling. One thing is that I felt that there could have been some more cohesion between the tracks, but overall it's a great submission especially considering the limited time that we had.
These are very good tracks, I think you composed them well! The hook in your second track is really fun, and the whole track has a mysterious and intense vibe. Individually, I thought you had pretty clear direction and style in each of the tracks, but a critique I have is that they felt a bit disconnected from each other. I think it's because there wasn't a lot of shared material between them. Overall though, I think you had some really solid ideas for your tracks!
Great job!!! Overall your compositions were solid, I especially liked The Princess and Flight. Flight brought to mine Toss a Coin to Your Witcher, the guitar was lovely! My main piece of feedback would be to work on the mixes throughout, but especially the first three tracks. The first two the low end is really muddy and it crowds everything else. For Flight, I felt like the low end kind of got pulled back too much which really lets the guitar shine but then you lose some of the movement you’re trying to get out of the bass. But even still, this was a really great submission!