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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Quality | #1 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
| Creativity | #1 | 4.476 | 4.476 |
| Composition | #3 | 4.476 | 4.476 |
| Overall | #6 | 4.343 | 4.343 |
| Correlation to theme | #11 | 4.095 | 4.095 |
| Did you imagine the town? | #12 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Theme
Correlation to theme
In the town of Prehistoric Outpost, something very peculiar happens each day. During the day, there are many fossilized dinosaurs strewn about the arid jungle, giving visitors a glimpse into the distant past. As the sun begins to set, the oasis water begins to warm and bubble. The warmth, humidity, and nutrients from the hot spring water overflow from the pools and spill over the entire terrain, including over the fossils. It is then when the magic happens. Every night when this happens, the dinosaurs come to life and roam Prehistoric Outpost freely until the rising sun causes the hot spring oasis to recede again.
To accompany the drastic changes in the town's vibrancy, I have included a daylight theme when the dinosaurs are only fossils in the sand, a twilight theme to accompany the simmering water overflowing and the transformation of the dinosaurs coming to life, and finally a moonlight theme where the enormous dinosaurs are happily stomping around the town. Enjoy!
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This is one my favorites dinosaurs vibes so far! It feels as a town inside a prehistoric jungle, always alert to the dangers of dinosaurs out there. The sudden speed up is top notch, executed at the best time: unexpected but not disonant. The chords progression is amazing, I love the type of tension that it gives, and of course, that lead instrument is taking my hand to an ancient expedition just by how its sound!
What a great track you made here! Hope to see more of you in the future, you put a lot of effort in sounding this good and definitely deserves the attention! Excellent work!
Wow thank you so much for the close and intentional listening! It means a lot coming from someone who made such a solid entry. I am definitely looking forward to competing alongside you in future music jams!
Fossilized Relics: Awesome, you went for a more Eastern vibe I see, with the sitar (right?) and flutes. Really well executed too! You always manage to amaze me with what you can do. Copying a bit from Selkione's review, your song also got everything a song needs:
-you got multiple sections, to counter repetitiveness (0:00 to 0:58, and 0:58 to 1:19);
-you got good mastering: all instruments sound great and are not too loud/soft etc.;
-you nailed the theme by the flutes, sitar, and nice percussion (that I cannot name for the life of me);
-you got an interesting composition (chord progressions, etc.), to counter boredom;
-you got interesting quirks that make the song special (e.g. the speed-up at 0:58!). Just awesome.
Simering Springs: I thought "is he gonna do a hot spring theme in here?". Glad you didn't. Just a soothing Eastern song. Really (really) nice to listen to.
Prehistoric Romp: how do you manage to make three songs, all completely different, yet still fit the theme?? And all ±3-minutes as well. I cannot even make a single 2-minute song, damn. This sounds like a live jazz-band of sorts. What are these dino's doing at moonlight I wonder!
It surprises me that you haven't found yourself a job in music yet (or have you?!), as you are clearly outclassing most (or rather, all) of us here. Soon we'll have to consider banning you, because no-one else can win with you here haha! (that's a joke btw, I really like to have you here :)
I am extremely grateful for your response - thank you for taking the time to truly listen to my compositions. (Also everyone else is also very appreciative of your efforts as well!) I was definitely going for an arid vibe to describe fossils and ruins and the sitar at the beginning set the stage for that well. I also used an instrument called Santoor which I love the sound of.
The twilight theme came out sounding soothing so I thought it would be a fun idea to mash up the dinosaur and hot springs theme a little and incorporate it into my town's lore. It may have cost some points in theme correlation, but I was happy to gain it in creativity!
My last song was written really fast and all I had planned before I started writing was that I wanted heavy downbeats to mimic stomping dinosaurs. :) It turned out to have a good groove which was fun to write.
Haha, I appreciate the jokes, but please don't ban me! This is a really fun community to make music alongside! Composition is still a hobby for me, but I've considered trying to offer freelance custom music. Still trying to figure out the details of how to go about doing that though. I want to mame sure that music making never feels like a chore though and is always fun!
This response turned out to be longer than I expected! Thanks again for your comments and I look forward to hearing your music again in the next jam!
Haha don't worry, we'll never even consider banning you (I thought that maybe that joke went a bit too far). I love to have you here, as you're very nice and a great inspiration. Though I really really expected you to win this jam, as Fossilized Relics and Simmering Springs were two of my favorite songs of this jam! And "I want to make sure that music making never feels like a chore though and is always fun" is EXACTLY the kind of reasoning that I apply too! Keep enjoying yourself, and we'll keep enjoying your work. See you in the next jam <3
Those dinos have no bussiness being this jazzy, I love it!
All 3 tracks sounds amazing, with great composition and well tought out mixing. My only minor gripe is that tempo increase in the first track which is well executed but kind of pulls away the town vibe for me a little bit. But even then I think these are amazing, great work!
wow you went above and beyond with this. the whole composition, to the sounds, brought me into this humid warm world that you've built.
i really liked the dramatic changes in tempo as well as the percussion used in the first track. it gave the really nice uniqueness to the track.
i need to know what stringed instrument you used and if it was recorded live or not.
i also love how you made different tracks for the different times of day and how you gave meaning to each.
amazing job on this!
wow you went above and beyond with this. the whole composition, to the sounds, brought me into this humid warm world that you've built.
i really liked the dramatic changes in tempo as well as the percussion used in the first track. it gave the really nice uniqueness to the track.
i need to know what stringed instrument you used and if it was recorded live or not.
i also love how you made different tracks for the different times of day and how you gave meaning to each.
amazing job on this!
Great thematic progression that really matches the picture you paint of the town in your description, and that moonlight track is so very funky. I love it so much!
it is a really great song, this is what I think a dinosaur village sounds like, pretty nice work, as always :)
Thank you!
really liking the orchestration and mixing... how everything fits well even with so much going on. stereo image in the twilight track is neat, especially pizzicato string part around 0.50
Thank you, that means a lot since I still have lots to learn when it comes to mixing!
This is an excellent set of tracks! I love the ideas you had regarding the way this dinosaur town would develop from day to night, and it absolutely can be heard through the music you wrote. I think the overall mood of the Twilight track makes it my favorite of the three, but I want acknowledge that accelerando in the Daylight track. That tempo change was so unexpected but was such a cool surprise, I loved that little touch! I love that jazzy feel in the Moonlight track with the use of sax, horns, and upright bass. It really gives the music this sense of roaming a now bustling moonlit city now that the dinosaurs have all come back to life. All three tracks perfectly encapsulate the vibes you were trying to go for, and I'm super impressed by the level of polish with only a few days to get it all done. Great work!
Thank you so much for your comment and close listening! It makes me happy to see that you noticed many very intentional pieces of my compositions. Really appreciate it!
Happy to see you there :)
Just one word : Wow!
What compositions! Special mention to "moonlight", the groove is incredible. I couldn't help but shake my head as I listened.
I'd never have dared use a saxophone to illustrate a prehistoric world, but you did, and it works. A bold choice that pays off.
"Twilight" is also fantastic, with its very cinematic modulations (with a little Gerudo Valley from Zelda OoT feel).
Excellent work (as usual).
Thank you so much for your kind words! The saxophones were a solution to a “I need a reedy sound with some oomph” moment. :) I really appreciate your feedback! I know I already commented on your track, but I absolutely loved your track and think it nailed the theme. Thank you!
this one is so interesting, but I feel the music like in Egypt, (Crash Bandicoot) or something like a jungle, Tre Arabian scales and Phrygian modes are funny and exotically, but I don't feel like with dinosaurs. However the music is amazing, I really like it.
Thank you for the comment and feedback! Part of the fun with this theme was figuring out what dinosaur music sounds like. I'm glad that the arid vibe came through in the daylight theme - I wanted the fossils to sound dry and "sandy" while adding some jungle rhythm to give it an exotic and primal element. Once the dinosaurs come to life in the Twilight and Moonlight themes, I tried to portray the dinosaurs with different ancient-sounding instruments and using heavy downbeats with big kicks, bass drums, taiko drums, and timpani with strong bass lines. Thank you for listening!