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My thoughts --

  • On the music, there are parts where the melody worked, and parts where it felt all over the place, parts where it invoked dread, and parts where it felt very uncharacteristically uplifting. One thing I'd advise you on is, brush up on your tonality and our cultural and historical associations with chords -- this'll help your emotional literacy when writing themes. These are things that can be learnt through osmosis, through listening to scores that have impacted you over the years.
    • Staccato is a good choice rhythmically for this sort of piece because it gives it a drive and an urgency. So I guess the TLDR is that you've got the right ideas rhythmically, but not entirely, tonally.
  • On the FX:
    • Under Attack has that BLOOD-CURDLING gurgly, warbling sound that truly makes it sound otherworldly and frightening. Well done!
    • The death FX was also alien in its sound, though I feel it could've used a touch more impact.
    • That roar was also probably one of the most terrifying I've heard in this jam, full stop, just due to the sheer warbling and  alien nature of it. It could do to be a touch thicker and sharper, but it still managed to instill dread in me all the same. Solid work!

Well done on your submissions -- I note, again, that you're one of those who submitted in such a short time, with hours to spare before the deadline; props for that. All the best in the jam!

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Thank you Trois, really appreciate the feedback, and I think all of it is pretty good! The music ended up being quite the mess lol, but I mostly wanted to get something done, and I definitely leaned more into the production side of it than actually writing something intelligently! 😂

Really loved your thoughts on the SFX especially though, 100% agree on the Alien death one regarding impact, at the time I thought there may have been some rule against combining other samples (that I didn't make for the jam but had the rights to use) so I just recorded all of these from scratch with voice and foley from my phone mic run into a DAW for post processing.

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And sometime if you are looking for a laugh I might send you the source sound I recorded and used for the roar, you might hurt yourself from laughing though! 😁