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A jam submission

Storming Dracula's CastleView project page

Submitted by NakedSnek ā€” 7 days, 1 hour before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Accompaniment#64.3334.333
Melody#94.0004.000
Overall#203.6673.667
Jam Theme#332.6672.667

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Explicit Content

No

Methodology
Guitar recorded by me.


VSTs:

EZDrummer 3

GroveBass

Spitfire Symphonic Strings, Woodwinds, and Brass

The Grandeur

Roland Zenology

Neural DSP Archetype Gojira

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Comments

Submitted

i did a double take at the start, i wasn't expecting to hear such a full level of production! great job with the guitar work, and the string section had a nice, mysterious/unsure progression to it that i felt was fitting. i'm a big Castlevania fan, so i'm definitely a bit biased hahaha; the bit at 0:40 and 1:54 definitely felt reminiscent of Vampire Killer, without being overtly referential. awesome job! :))

Host

Wow. First reaction: the production on this is incredibly punchy!

The heroic guitar sections contrasting with the more synthesized/symphonic/organ sections was a genius musical move (makes sense for a tune titled ā€œStorming Draculaā€™s Castleā€).

Submitted

This was very unique to listen to, thanks for entering! Really well done, fresh and retro at the same time, a lot of different little details made me smile. When listening to this, I'm imagining a boss sequence in a castlevania style game where the PC grabs a surfboard and rides a wave of trapped souls to get to the weak point of the static boss while the backgrounds just flies by. Awesome!

Submitted

This sounds like a Halloween castle level on a game thatā€™s a cross between Sonic and Castlevania. I have been listening to this on repeat- itā€™s really fun to listen to! The guitar is my favorite part, in addition to how professional the drums sound. Overall great work and thank you for sharing!

Submitted (1 edit)

Typically the kind of music I'd hear in a Japanese video game published by Atlus.

The guitar is insane! What a punch! Thatā€™s clearly the most awesome part.

I heard some notes that sound like a tribute to cadtlevania, am I right ?

There's a fairy-tale feel to certain passages.

It's not quite Halloween boss battle music for me, but I have to admit that it's very, very well composed.

Submitted (1 edit)

The quality of this is kinda wild, it sounds very professional. It sounds very fun and exploratory. Honestly this is great, there's too many positive things to say about it. Not gonna lie, my favorite part is the guitar, I could imagine myself just jamming out to that part!

The only thing I will say is that I am not super sure how well this matches the theme. I could see this appearing in a Halloween type game especially with the occasional organs, but it sounds very bright, determined, and exploratory which I don't think really matches the tone so well. I also don't really specifically being a boss battle song. Once again, I wouldn't bat an eye if it was used as one, but it doesn't really have any sense of urgency or intensity that I would expect.

But still, this is absolutely amazing, really looking forward to your future submissions!

Submitted

This was really well put together and really well mixed! I always have trouble mixing the drums but you made them sound really good here along with everything else.

I don't know if this sounds like a boss battle song, it kind of sounds like an open-world area with horror parts into it. And there's one part where I kind of got a Zelda vibe which is cool ^^

Really well put together though! I also have Spitfire on my computer but didn't realize I can get that heavy of an orchestra sound from it, it sounds great!