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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Correlation to theme | #88 | 3.232 | 3.316 |
| Quality | #117 | 3.027 | 3.105 |
| Creativity | #124 | 3.078 | 3.158 |
| Overall | #125 | 2.975 | 3.053 |
| Composition | #127 | 2.770 | 2.842 |
| Impression | #129 | 2.770 | 2.842 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Soundtrack for a fictional game taking place in two worlds
genre: orchestral and electronic soundtrack
made in FL Studio20 Instruments: syntheziser M-Theory and Sytrus by FL Studio, orchestral instruments UVI Orchestral Suit
Thanks for Listening, I hope you enjoy! Also your feedback is very appreciated :)
Theme:
How does it fit the theme?
The first idea for this soundtrack was a RTS game where the player can freely switch between an historic and a sci fi time period which having each different advantages and challenges. However during the composition it shifted maybe more to an fantasy world meets cyberpunk world game (maybe an RPG or action like game). The first half with the orchestra represents a medival fantasy world prospering with many life filled, the second half tries to capture a open, empty, but dangerous dessert cyberpunk scenario missing recourcess and with less lifeforms. The second part was heavy influenced from current hip-hop music . The weird talking drum pattern in the middle of the track (was at first a sleep deprived accident, but I somehow like it) underlines the restlessnes and the constant moving forward of the game characters in the dessert cyberpunk world and creates a constant pushing forward contrasting the more static orchestral part in the beginning.The arpeggio which you hear from the start continues to the hole piece and works like a bridge (inspired by the game jams cover ) to connect these two different worlds. In the end orchestra and electronic music blending in together, to represent that these two worlds become more and more intertwined as the player progresses in the game.
Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoy it :)
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/tr_dr/atlases
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Comments
This is a cool adaptive track! I like that your orchestration mimics the game description in that the initial style has more harmonic structure and instrument voices whereas the cyberpunk textures are more sparse acoustically showing us that there are “less lifeforms”. I agree that if the tabla drums were a mistake, they were a very good one! I like the history/future juxtaposition as well. Good work and thanks for sharing!
Great job! i like the mood !!
Big fan of the arps!
I like the combination of synths and orchestral! I feel like the horns that came in around 0:05 could have been toned down a little more to be less jarring (maybe have it start at a lower velocity and then crescendo). I like what you did with this, the synths and orchestra combo works really well with the theme of the jam. Good job!
This had a cool atmosphere to it, I really dug your timbres. Thanks for your work on this!
Thanks you enjoyed it :)
Interesting song! I especially love the atmosphere you managed to create at the 1:00 minute mark.Your "sleep-deprived accident", while interesting when it first showed up, kinda got annoying after a little bit, maybe you could have had it fade out once it was back in sync again or just have had a more precisely controlled version recorded later when you were less sleep-deprived :P
:D thanks for the honest feedback. The drums are actually quantized in a 5/8 against 4/4 polymeter. The idea with the fade out is really nice, I might incorporate it after the jam ;)
I generally liked your piece very much. The arpeggio sounded realy cool and was a great overall bridge. The chords in the background also provided a nice background to it. One thing I noticed was that the strings sometimes changed very abruptly which sounded very unnatural to me. Maybe you could have made smoother or fewer transitions there. I understand what you were trying to do with the drums, especially after reading your text, but I think they are too surprising. Instead of complementing the overall track it kinda tries to distract me from it. It kinda makes it hard for me to stay focussed on the track. You could probably achieve the effect you want by throwing in some hectic drum patterns or some noise. Overall I still enjoyed listening to your track, good job!
Thank you so much for listening and your great feedback ;)