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I really love the approach you took when creating this song as you described on the project page, all of the recordings of the appliances creates a really nice, fuzzy, analogue-sounding soundscape.

Fantastic work!

Thank you, that's a good idea!

This is really good, the chords are fantastic. You can’t tell that it’s a palindrome without really paying attention (or being told), you managed to make it work both ways very well.

Sometimes simple is better, as shown here! Excellent work!

Thank you so much :)

Nice work! I love how you managed to complete challenge B, and I really like your choice of instruments. It was nice to read about your process making the music as well, and it’s always interesting to see someone making use of sheet music.

There are lots of great musical ideas in there, however if I could offer some advice I’d say that it might be better to slow down a little bit - introduce a new idea, then maybe repeat it or build on it before moving onto the next one. Obviously this is only my personal preference though.

Well done on a great first submission :)

Thank you, glad you liked it :)

Nice, I'll give it a watch when it comes out.

This is so cool! I'm really impressed that you managed to make so many songs of different styles within just 2 days.

I love the intro/outro song, for some reason it kind of creeps me out with the "here at death or at birth" lyric but that definitely added to it!

On my first time I took the Energetic Path with the Energetic Circus.

Fantastic work overall :)

Thank you! I agree with you, the reverse drums do sound a bit off. I thought they might give the second half a weirder feeling, like the listener is descending into madness or a drug trip or something. Maybe they just sound a bit rubbish though.

To be honest, I was really happy with how the drums sounded in the first half, and I just reversed it and hoped for the best. Maybe I should have just ended the song before it repeats in reverse.

This is fantastic, really impressive that you managed to make so many great (and different) sounding tracks in the given time. Your use of effects across all of the songs is honestly inspiring, I think I'm going to try some heavier bit crushing, distortion and reverb on some of my tracks in the future.

I think Was it a Cat I Saw is my favourite, I love the bassline and for some reason the title sticks with me.

All of the samples you used throughout were really nice as well, especially the percussion loops.

Excellent work!

Thank you, I've been working on my mixing so it's good to hear I've made some progress :)

This is fantastic! Both songs are so full of lovely details and the mixing is excellent. I love the drip samples following the melody on the first track, and as many others have said the guitar sounds fantastic on track two! Really relaxing and serene, both songs fit the theme very well too. Great work!

Thank you :D

This is a fantastic submission! Your composition is excellent, and each track is full of emotion and clever instrumentation. I love the game idea, and you represented it perfectly through music. My favourite track is probably Summer Night Festival, it’s surprisingly dramatic but it really works as a cathartic ending to the game!

Overall brilliant work!

Thank you for the feedback! The main thing I need to take from this jam is to make better use of the high end of the frequency spectrum, I am still learning how to mix well so this is a great action I can take to improve my songs.

With Nephropus, King of the Lobsters, I didn’t really want to go too far with the militant theme, in my head the character would be a friendly king who leads an army (but I didn’t put that in the description). To be honest, looking at the responses so far, I think this is people’s least favourite track, so maybe if I did lean more into the military theming it would make the song more interesting.

Thanks again for taking the time to leave this comment!

Thank you so much! I love the Secret of Mana soundtrack, great to hear that comparison :D

Funnily enough I have been listening to a relaxing PS1 music compilation lately and Chrono Cross songs keep coming up - you have really nailed the PS1 RPG sound! The variety in each song is impressive, I love Vivid Village's unique instrument choices and the way Something Wrong slowly pitches down makes for a lovely creepy feeling. My favourite track has to be Suspicious Forest, the guitar loop sounds fantastic, I love the Mitsuda-esque percussion and the choir adds a great, slightly supernatural atmosphere.

Incredible work overall!

Great submission, I love the live instrument playing, it really makes this soundtrack stand out! There's lots of great composition in there too, I like the weird time signatures you use throughout. The genre variety is also impressive! My favourite track is probably Just A Girl, despite the quality issues of the clarinet lead I really love the melody it is playing and the accompaniment sounds great!

Fantastic work!

Thank you so much, glad you liked it enough to put it on your playlist!

This is fantastic, I can't believe this took you a single day! Really great ambient piece, the instrument choices fit the image theme really well - I love the inclusion of the shakuhachi to represent the Japanese aspects of the picture, and the piano with the heavy reverb at the end really sells the underwater setting!

Excellent job!

Wow! Thank you so much for such a detailed comment, I'm currently grinning from ear to ear! I really appreciate this :D

I love how you thought about how these tracks might actually be used in game, for example with the "action" version of the overworld theme and the save room theme. The save room theme in particular shows off your fantastic composition skills, the chords are really stylish (and it reminds me a bit of one of my favourite songs from the Majora's Mask soundtrack, the Milk Bar theme). I also love the tonal shift for Mechacanthine Chaos, I always appreciate a good breakbeat.

Excellent work!

You are spot on with those influences, I am a huge fan of the Mother soundtracks and yes I was going for a more SNES-like style for Dolphin Taxi Service. Thank you so much for the feedback!

Your composition skills are phenomenal, the piano parts of each track are some of the best composed parts out of all of the submissions I have heard! The chord progressions and harmonies in all of the songs honestly leave me in awe, I aspire to be able to create such emotional depth in my music. I also love the use of bells to represent bubbles, it ties your songs back to the image theme really nicely.

Fantastic job!

Thank you :D

Thank you! I really tried to make each song fit as closely to the ideas I had about the game as I could, good to hear that it seems to have worked :)

This is really good, your composition skills are impressive and the songs have an excellent atmosphere! I love Lights off, it is a fantastic ambient piece which leans a bit more into the horror aspect of the game. My favourite song has to be Real though, I like how stripped back it is - the melody is perfect, there is just the right amount of creepiness to it while still feeling quite calming and serene.

Excellent work!

Thank you so much!

I relied quite heavily on LABS - I'm bored at the moment so I'll give you a list of everything:

• Follow the Ghost: Glass Grand (Glass Piano), Soft Piano (Soft Piano), Violin (Frozen Strings), Harmonic Birdsong Violin (Frozen Strings)
• Coral Town: Long (Strings), The Grand (Autograph Grand)
• Cephalopod Shuffle: The Grand (Autograph Grand) x2, 1975 Kit (Vintage Drums) x4, Soft Piano (Soft Piano) x2
• The Village Atop a Whale: The Grand (Autograph Grand), Long (Strings) x3
• Dolphin Taxi Service: Long (Strings) x4
• Nephropus, King of the Lobsters: The Grand (Autograph Grand) x2, Long (Strings) x2, 1975 Kit (Vintage Drums)
• Sunken Mausoleum: The Grand (Autograph Grand), Cello (Frozen Strings)
• Farewell, Father: The Grand (Autograph Grand)

I'm not sure if I'll end up turning this into a real game, but it's great that you think it could be made into one :D

This is an absolutely brilliant submission! I really love the extra thought you put into how the songs will work dynamically with the game mechanics, it makes me wish I had done something like that. Your mixing and sound design is unique and phenomenal throughout as well, fantastic job!

Thank you!

I really love the sound design in both tracks, some excellent synth noises in there! Welcome To The Lands is a fantastic ambient piece, for some reason it brings to mind the menu music from the PS3 and PS4. I love the main theme too, the heavy bass is surprising when it first comes in but it works!

Overall this is a great submission!

Thank you!

This is fantastic, it could easily be the soundtrack to a real Genesis game! Every single aspect is so authentic - the composition style, the song structure, the instrument design...

I also love the little recurring arpeggio leitmotif, it really helps to connect the tracks together.

Excellent work overall!

As many others in this comments section have said, this is absolutely incredible! You have a real talent for orchestration - it's so dramatic and full of emotion, your composition is beautiful, this is such unbelievably fantastic work for someone who only started learning in June!! Keep going with this!

Really nice submission! All of the tracks are very well composed and structured, and have a great dark atmosphere. There are some really good melodies in there, it's a shame that there are a few times where they are drowned out a bit by the rest of the instruments. Maybe if you transposed the lead instruments up an octave they might be able to shine through more easily.

I love Great Ascent, you said that Chrono Trigger is one of your influences and it shows in this song - the piano and tubular bells combined with the droning choir and strings gives it an excellent grandiose feeling.

Great job overall!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked the saxophone, the samples sound unreasonably good for the random soundfont I found it in so I had to include it somewhere.

Thank you :D

I hadn't heard of NaissanceE before now, from the trailer the music sounds good so thank you!

This could easily by the soundtrack to some long-lost N64 or PS1 game, you have a really great authentic style! Each song feels perfectly suited to their described uses, and your composition is great throughout. I love Help! My Song Is Stuck In A Tree, it's such a unique take on a jungle theme that doesn't rely on the usual clichéd instruments. 

Fantastic work!

I really appreciate the premise of this game - having also watched as two of my grandparents suffered with Alzheimer's, it really struck a chord. Let's hope they eventually find some sort of cure for such an awful disease...

The music itself is great, too - it definitely sounds authentic, and all of the oddness you included really works to give the songs a sense of confusion. Being compatible with real Mega Drive hardware is a bonus!

Excellent job overall!