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What lovely art and what an interesting story!! I will definitely try and play this!!

How nostalgic! You've really nailed the MS-DOS look. A bit hard to play at first but I count that as part of the experience.

Thanks! Wow, I was expecting other people to try and pull all-nighters too, but I didn't expect a comment about my own insomnia!
Thank you for your comment!

omg, love your reply <3 that's the spirit! yes! I had the same reaction seeing another FF fan in the wild x3

absolutely going to listen to your other fufa tracks now when I'm back home!

Thank you! That's really interesting to hear. I was hoping the "choir track" would be interesting to listen to!

Thank you for your advice, I'll try to go into the next works with more confidence!
 I find that although I enjoy composing with notes in MuseScore (I'm a bit oldschool... ), the dynamics are definitely a bit easier to play around with in a real DAW. I think I was kind of afraid of doing something with these that would dis-qualify them from the jam for grounds of unoriginality (even if... everyone uses the stems from their DAW, right?) and tried to keep re-doing some of the sound in MS directly instead. Definitely will keep experimenting and learning :) Thanks again!

Hi! Thank you so much for your extensive comment! I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier, but the comment just made me so happy, I didn't know what to reply :) I was very pleased to hear someone else going in-depth over some short pieces I wrote. I'm honestly surprised I got comments at all, this felt like quite a short album, even if I set out to make something more completed. I'll keep what you said here in mind as I revisit the tracks some other day, or add more to this collection!

Fun little fact: two of the tracks started as an overlayed version with both of the melodies playing and overlapping with each other for a little bit for several bars. Can you guess which ones? (I find you already sorta did hehe)

Thank you so much and hope you scored well and got a lot of comments too in the jam!

Thank you for your comment!! Yes, you can use the ringtone for your actual ringtone haha :P

An organ horn - have you ever seen the big instrument they have in some churches? an organ? an organ horn is from there :) No Mettle actually uses a lot of synths from MuseScore, but I have to admit, it does sound like an organ a lot of times. I was imagining a vampire going on vacation.

I tried to add more bells into this album, so thank you for appreciating them!

Wow what an interesting comment! I actually had to go and re-listen to my own track now haha :D

Reeds was composed as the last track, but I started on it early during the jam actually, so I kept adding to it while working on the other tracks, not quite knowing what it would turn into. I kinda wish I had done a bit more editing on it to play with the dynamics more, but I liked the result still, so I left it as-is. I'm so glad to hear that it actually made you feel like you're playing a game storybeat! I'm also surprised to hear someone likes this middle part, I thought it might be too much, but really felt like the track had to go in that direction. Thank you so much for your comment!

Holy cow!!! A fusionfall track for a music jam??? ommggg :D this game has served as inspiration for me for over 12 years, so it's very cool seeing more fanmusic for it :D

I think this works well as a track for Fuse! It has that uncanny feeling and I really like how you're bringing back some of the instruments/motifs from other themes/sounds in the game. The mixing could sound a bit different, like less extreme peaks, or more cohesion to some parts, so it would have more of an identity of its own, but overall, it does make for thrilling Fusionfall track! The clash of sounds on the other hand goes really well with what we see in the game of Fuse. Alien and foreboding!

Thanks for making this and submitting it in the jam so I could find more fusionfall fanmusic! :)

Really enjoyable track. I liked how the intro/beginning of this is really subtle and subdued, and then when the voices come in, it really starts to feel almost uncanny, I keep thinking of ghosts and spirits? but also sort of joyful in it's existence, like it's just existing, and then the build-up into something more etherial, like electricity. Overally, I really liked it. I'm glad to see someone else who used the time limit of this jam as motivation!

Wow! I really like the sound of this! Feels like a pure videogame soundtrack, the energy feels really fresh in this. I also really like your game concept! Would be very interesting to see how this kind of idea is executed into a real game. Thanks for making this music, it's really cool!

Thank you! That's a very on-point way to describe this album : ] Glad you liked it!!

Thanks! That's a good idea to try out if I try continuing this!

Really love the sound and feeling of this track! Feels retro in a nice way! I could listen to this a lot :)

Thank you! I was surprised too honestly! I'm glad you like Sleep, although I tried to tap into my choir-singer backgroun, that was the hardest to compose this time :)

Ooh! Nice to hear this kind of comparsion! Thanks! I'm happy people like both of these! :)

Thanks, I like em too :D Yeah, this time I started with the feeling that I'm definitely up to it and will have time to write a bit more creatively, but as time went on, I kinda got to work on em less and less. I still wanted to make something completed, but I would have liked to have worked on these a bit more (not that the time period here was too short, jut didn't manage my time between other things well enough!)

Thank you! I'll keep working at it but I am surprised at the 6 tracks too ;)

It is! Usually I've been to game jams as an artist or judge, but this is my first time as a composer.

Thanks, I'm really glad to get this many comments and feedback on my work! I hope I can join more OST and music jams in the future too :)

I like your soundtrack as well!

Thanks! I did try Musescore 4 when it came out (exactly for the new soundfonts) but something about the new version didn't click with me. I might try again after this jam is over! I will definitely take another look at the bass and other peaking here and there to clean these tracks up a bit :)

Very much feels like something that really fits the image theme! I really enjoy the melodies present here and how you've used the instruments. Altogether, everything sounds very pleasant and emotionally fitting :)

Thanks! I'm surprised people are liking Prelude as much as they are! ^^ I'll definitely think about re-mixing them a bit for the re-release!

Hello! Mine is quite short but I wouldn't mind a listen! Thank you!

https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-7/rate/2843105

Thank you so much for your comments! I'm glad you like the tracks!

I was actually writing more parts which would have explored some of these parts (I wanted to have all of them represented in the final part) but couldn't finish them all with another event coming up. So yes, it all probably sounds a bit unfinished. The prelude for example was written to be like a "shorter version" of the longest track, and overlaying them, they should partially match, because I took parts of the first to create the last track. That's why I titled it "prelude", because it's like a intro or omen, but I wanted to have it's own ending, more than I wanted it to only flow into the other tracks perfectly. Hopefully I'll have time to continue the unfinished parts later! I'll think about the double bass and the rest of the rhythym for my other tracks! :)

Thank you for the feedback! I was thinking something similar, but thought I had solved it with the final version. I'll keep your comment in mind when I continue working on this after the jam ends!

Ahh, thank you!! I'm so happy to read this kind of comment on my work!

Thank you! I'm really glad you like them!

Love seeing each update for fonts and what a wide variety of glyphs are always added by you!

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Thank you so much for being one of the few free font makers to include estonian! 🙏all your fonts are so fun to use for comics and games!

Thank you! This is very fun :)

oooo, this is exciting! this looks so good! It's always really cool to see your vocaloids content, Ken!

This is really cool! I'm excited something like this exists in this day and age. It's been fun to use and I'm looking forward to posting something done in it! Thanks for making this!

wow, this is so nice! I really like this 10 revolutions angle and how easy it is to play! The aesthetics make me want to contnue making games.

Brilliant.
... But for real. This was so fun.

Thank you! glad you felt nostalgia from it! :D

Really nice, a simple concept, and most importantly: it's really fun and engaging to play! Love it!