I'm a sucker for strange sounds and synths mixed with acoustic elements. This hits hard, absolutely fantastic. The ambience, the beautiful reverb that just envelopes a massive space but still leaves room for movement is wonderful. Your creative use of instruments and sound design is fantastic. I love your setting/story descriptions for each track, they leave room for the imagination and are very immersive. Not only that but I really like that the ending is left up to the reader, reminds me of The Giver. I got chills. I wanna play this game so bad.
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Thank you! Sound design is one of my passions. I spent a few weeks coming up with various synth patches/presets that might suit whatever I ended up doing for the jam
I wanted to leave the ending ambiguous because in my head, this story is an origin story or prequel to something bigger that I’ll probably never expand upon, and a fairytale that grandparents tell their grandkids with variations from family to family. I figured the best way to approach a loose sort of folklore/fireside story feel was to let the readers fill in blanks and come up with their own variations.