I really liked this! I’m getting more into designing games that have kind of an inbuilt soundtrack to them, so this is kinda my jam. The idea of sharing invented memories implies that this game could be about playing a now-dispersed high school friendgroup at a reunion or something – or a good game to play along to a character playlist by yourself, fleshing out backstory as you go before you play a different TTRPG. Could be a great game to pass time on a road trip, too! Thanks for submitting it :)
I’d love to know more about your own creations that include music as well!
Well, since you ask! It was on my mind because one of my submissions to this jam, Space Banjos, asks the player to play some of the titular space banjos genre; mainly because the game was very much inspired by listening to a playlist of that as work music while working on the art for one of my other submissions. Useful for efficient tone communication.
But the main resonance I felt with your approach here was a game I made a few weeks ago, Dreamlined, for the Tabletop Train Jam. Dreamlined is about playing as a sentient train, and I wanted to give the journeys between stations a feeling of progress and meaning and time, without being too prescriptive about duration or mood and without that time stretching on into boredom. I ended up with the idea of marking the time between stations with songs – It’s about the right length of time to wait, it gives the imagination a sense of movement, and it resonates with how often I listen to music while staring out a train window.