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A jam submission

Jiggyicarus - Visions of ArcadiaView project page

OST for The Course of Empire Impressions Jam - focusing on the fictional empire of Arcadia.
Submitted by Jiggyicarus — 3 hours, 21 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Correlation to Theme#124.2094.429
Execution#153.8024.000
Composing Quality#193.8694.071
Overall#253.7743.971
Listenability#253.8024.000
Overall Uniqeuness#413.1913.357

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Description
This is my entry for The Course of Empire Impressions Jam. This five piece soundtrack, "Visions of Arcadia", focuses on utilising repeated and developed motifs and instrumentation to bring to life the fictional world of Arcadia, a vast, historic empire. The music starts off atmospheric, detailing the commencement of the empire in all its vast yet uneasy opportunity, through to a more whimsical track imagining the pastoral state where settlers have found their stride, before turning to the day and night life of a historical city in its prime. The soundtrack finishes with the horrific and awesome destruction and desolation of Arcadia, attempting to show the cyclical nature of empires as they rise and fall.

Track 1 - A Savage Arcadia

Track 2 - A Pastoral Arcadia

Track 3 - Arcadia's Capital Arisen

Track 4 - Arcadia's Capital Sleeps

Track 5 - Destruction of Arcadia

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Comments

Submitted

High end in the 1st one is a bit off, however is great composition overall. Part 3 and 4 go pretty hard ngl frfr. One of the best ones for sure.

Submitted

Got some JRPG vibes a bit from these, and such a nice playful feel on tracks 2 and 3 too!

Good stuff!

Submitted

Very strong opening chord on the piano. It got my attention immediately. The Pastoral and Capital themes are very fun. But my favorite was definitely Destruction. That harpsichord was awesome. Lots of unusual instruments throughout the entire submission made this very fun, alive, and engaging. 

Submitted

I like the arrangement and instrumentation you used, the mix is also pretty decent. The most crazy part is you did everything with ProTools X. I like Capital Sleeps, its reminds me of some Age of Empire II OST just to chill while doing your scenario, good job ;)

Developer

Haha yeah I'm a Pro Tools boi Fox, haven't ever used any other DAWs, would be interesting to try others out! Thanks for the comments too, glad you liked Capital sleeps it definitely has that chill vibe you're talking about!

Submitted

Finale was dramatic! Lots of great moments throughout, as well. You hit a wide range of emotions here, but your tracks are still cohesive. Well done!

Developer(+1)

Thanks fiber! glad my tracks were able to convey emotion in the ways it did for you - appreciate the comments

Submitted(+1)

Love this! Peaceful. Strings. and shakers! Love it all. Great work here. The second and fourth songs were my favorite for how you got the tone and texture. The play between instruments theme were great. That last one was powerful as well! WOw! Great power you got here. Love the vocals as well.

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much Squirrel! glad you enjoyed those two especially,  I think they're my favourites too - the fourth one's idea came to me when i started playing the harp on the third track and it just kind of went from there.

Submitted

Your welcome! I very much enjoyed listening to it. Wow, I was the same way for my submission. I worked my way out from the second the third songs.

Submitted(+1)

Really liked what you built there! Amazing sub!

I do miss a bit of longing in the end for Desolation, after that amazing Destrauction piece I think it deserved it!

Take care :3

Developer

Hey Muttzilla thanks very much! I do agree, ideally if I had time I had in mind a piece for the finale which would be similar to the first piece but a much more disonant take on the theme, if only I had more time! ended up settling for destruction to play it out but I can see how it deserves a finale. Glad you enjoyed it though

Submitted

This is really good, very well written and arranged. Each track really has an atmophere, with different colors while remaining very cohesive. 

Congrats, it's an awesome submission, had a blast listenning to it !

My favorite I think is the Pastoral one, really love the melody and harmony of this one :D


If you don't mind me asking, wich VST did you use for the strings and vocals ? Sounds so good ! 

Developer(+1)

Yo thanks Metko, I tried my best to tie all the tracks together whether through instrumentation, mixing elements or motifs so I appreciate you noticing that and glad you really enjoyed. Interesting haha, I started with the pastoral one! Of course, always up for talking about mixing/VSTs - for the choir, I used both the stock pro tools choir and the Epic Originals Choir from Spitfire (it's very cheap!) and then to make it sound a bit more real, it was a case of playing around with release and reverb, and blending with eq etc. I'd say the main things were using quite atmospheric verbs to give them a bit of sheen, and for the choir stabs in the third track I used transient shapers and compression to just make them hit a bit more.

For strings, I pretty much exclusively used spitfire stuff, a mixture of Spitfire symphony orchestra, i think I used albion colossas in places, and then a bit of symphony essentials. Spitfire stuff is rly good, but I'm noticing it's got quite a distinct sound, which is good but also I find makes it quite hard to blend together. 

Thanks again for comments, glad you liked it!

Submitted

Thanks a lot for your detailled response ! 

Spitfire is definitely very good, I really loved the sounds of your tracks, I'll look into it :D

Have a good day mate !