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Two Worlds Collide's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #88 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Correlation to theme | #107 | 2.950 | 2.950 |
| Impression | #127 | 2.800 | 2.800 |
| Overall | #132 | 2.830 | 2.830 |
| Composition | #134 | 2.600 | 2.600 |
| Quality | #138 | 2.400 | 2.400 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
This is visualized as an intro video soundtrack describing a battle between two nations-themed game. It's created to be a loop, so it could also be used in some menus, with a lower volume.
Made with MuseScore 3
Artist comment:
This is my very first jam, any feedback is accepted.
Theme:
Two Worlds
How does it fit the theme?
The two apparently unrelated melodies on parts 1 and 2, clash together as a single music in part three, as the collision and later unification of two countries.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/nandoaires/fernando-aires-two-worlds-collide
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Comments
I enjoyed the worldbuilding, here -- very much like a medieval or Renaissance-era setting! Perhaps you were going for a live chamber orchestra feeling, but I still think some of the elements could go through an EQ pass or further tuning, like maybe taking a bit of the edge off that percussive string instrument to make it "fit in" better with the other parts. Also, you could consider varying in volume (i.e. having the wind instruments go from piano to forte and back), to create the effect of the parts weaving together more. Really unique stylistic approach, though, nice job!
This is a cute first entry and has a neat premise and some interesting melodic ideas. I think there are a few points you could work on:
- Dynamics: Right now, the song feels a bit cluttered. Try to emphasize lead parts and make accompanying parts a little more quiet.
- Textures: A quick and relatively effective way to improve how MuseScore playback sounds is to install sound fonts, I particularily like "Timbres of Heaven". In the long term, it's probably a good idea to learn basic usage of a DAW, but for right now, if you want to focus on improving your composition skills first, I think going for sound fonts is a perfectly fine solution.
- A little more rhythmic variance would be nice, and maybe some other background parts.
Anyway, congratulations on your first jam submission! You should be proud of yourself for getting your song out into the world. Keep it up!
I'll for sure migrate into a DAW whenever I have the weekend to do that. :)
Also, the dynamics was a challenge, due to the proposition I chose, but I understand your feedback - maybe it went too far into that. Somebody said something about the song "having time to breathe", and I fully agree.
Thanks a lot for all the feedback. It really means a lot!
(And congratulations on your song, I just heard it now, but it is amazing - loved it!)
I like the ideas, but I think if it may be better to use softer instruments, which would make the clashes less jarring. Also yeah, look into sending your midi into a DAW! If you do end up doing so, some good free orchestral libraries i'd recommend are Spitfire LABS, and BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover (google BBC Symphony Orchestra survey, they send it to you two weeks after filling the survey). I'd love to hear this with updated samples! It definitely matches the theme though
I'm so very confused by DAWs, it will take some weekends for me to be able to accomplish this, hahaha. But I really do appreciate all the feedback. I'll create a more polished version, and I'll for sure let you know.
I like the ideas presented in this song, and overall it's not bad.
That being said, I do think it suffers from something that I think a lot of beginner musicians struggle with. The melody never really rests, and neither do the other instruments. It makes it hard to really feel grounded in the music when every note is constantly changing. And I'm not sure if it's the other stuff that causes this, but I was never able to get a good grasp on any of the melodies.
My advice would be to try and put more noticeable patterns into the melody, and have a steady bass line to support everything else. I hope I don't sound too judgmental, as I really did enjoy it! It matches the theme quite well, and in a unique and interesting way. In the end, even though it had a few issues, I'd say you have a lot of potential, and I hope you keep doing this in the future!
This is some great advice. I'm new to composing, and I'm kinda learning by myself (did a few courses, read a bunch of books, but I don't work in a team nor anything). I'll certainly keep this ideas in mind (I'm listening to your submission right now, and I already understand what you said about "resting").
Thanks a lot for taking the time to listen and write all this constructive feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed it, but the most important part for me was that feedback. All the best! :)
I immediately recognized the musescore instruments haha. I wouldn't use it for anything other than sheet music. I'd recommend exporting as midi and then using it in something like Cakewalk (which is free) or any other daw to make the audio itself.
Now to the soundtrack (with my opinion of course, like everything else is):
It sounds pretty chaotic to me. This is probably because every instrument tried to kind of play its own melody (like from bar 25 or 53 and onwards). Maybe letting the violin and viola only play chords would make it sound cleaner while still providing that "explosion" for the part.
I like the main melody tho. Very simple, which makes it perfect to use in a variety of places. I also liked the kind of instruments you picked, I think they match each other great (tho as said at the very top, if it's for exporting audio, don't use the musescore instruments).
I also liked how the melodies mix at the end, tho it got a bit chaotic as well.
Overall, I think this soundtrack matches the theme goodly.
Thanks for your input. I'll certainly look into Cakewalk. I looked into DAWs, but usually the tutorials that I found were about the paid, professional versions, which I don't think make sense to invest money in the beginning.
And I see what you mean on the "chaos". This was somehow the intention, but I guess it went far over of what I was looking into (I composed it in a piano as a harmony for the first melody, then transcripted and changed to several instruments, just joining some notes/adding some inessential notes just for bridging). Maybe keeping it simpler would have gone way better, looking in retrospective.
Again, thanks a lot for your constructive feedback. I'll look forward to change this melody in the future, making it simpler (and giving it time to rest, as the first feedback mentioned as well). All the best! :)
There's some interesting points but I thinks it is maybe too chaotic sometimes, and we don't quite understand the two worlds in this one song (Maybe you could have changed the instruments a bit).