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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Challenge | #10 | 3.909 | 3.909 |
| Creativity | #11 | 3.364 | 3.364 |
| Composition | #13 | 3.364 | 3.364 |
| Overall | #13 | 3.341 | 3.341 |
| Mixing | #14 | 2.727 | 2.727 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Title
Tanked Chakra
Description
Made on Mixcraft 9.0 Pro.
I imagined the image as a large mining craft scraping out a swath of planetary crust to pick up one magical, powerful orb of magic essential to the biome of this part of the planet. There's a desperate sadness for the creatures of the biome and a fatal trudgery for those on the mining craft.
The song is essentially and ABA structure.
Plugins used
Used only the acoustic piano instrument and used the equalizer. Split the bass clef and treble clef parts for some stereo affect (and sanity for me while composing.)
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https://soundcloud.com/michael-sibrava/tanked-chakra
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Comments
That surely can be nice sweet soundtrack of a mini game. Or even a cutscene in sepia colours describing the history of something. Well done!
I like the structure you chose to develop the theme. The left-hand part feels like the constant work of the miners, and the contrast in mood between Part A and Part B makes me imagine the clash of the two viewpoints you describe in your story.
Thank you very much!
I like how you establish one very clear mood, and work to build upon that with your composition. The little details in your right hand melody, be it grace notes or passing notes, are really nice. I wonder if you could also include such details in your left hand as well. It could be small things like rhythmic variations here and there, or little melodies in your left hand accompaniment when the right hand melody is taking a short break. For example I could see some great call and response things where the right hand plays something, and the left hand plays a short phrase back, being really nice in your piece. A great place for this would be in places like 1:14, where the right hand finishes a phrase and there's a short break, the left hand could echo back that phrase one octave lower to make your music sound more dynamic. It would also be thematic, since one hand could represent the miners, and the other the creatures of the biome. I think this would be a great video game track, kinda reminded me of Majora's Mask vibe-wise!
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback - great suggestions.
I really like the theme you explained in the description. The melody feels a little improvisational which makes the song a little hard to follow at times.
I particularly like the part that starts 56 seconds since that part feels the most like the desperate sadness you mentioned in your description.
it also reminds me of a club penguin song during that section for some reason I can't explain.
Well, that was a short ride down a rabbit hole of Penguin Club - I was a little old for Penguin Club apparently. Thanks for the complements.