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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Correlation to theme | #9 | 3.974 | 3.974 |
| Creativity | #10 | 4.237 | 4.237 |
| Overall | #13 | 3.968 | 3.968 |
| Quality | #27 | 3.895 | 3.895 |
| Impression | #34 | 3.868 | 3.868 |
| Composition | #38 | 3.868 | 3.868 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
You’ve grown up all your life in the small town of Blowfly. Your life has been normal enough--some oddities here and there--but over the past few years, you’ve been noticing that something is off with the town and the people. Everything comes crashing down when, on your sixteenth birthday, your parents sit you down and tell you what Blowfly really is. And that you have been given the greatest honor this town can bestow--to be a sacrifice.
Escape is the only option. That or your life.
I’m envisioning a 3d story driven game here, maybe like a 3rd person, single-player Dead by Daylight.
Main Theme: Name explains it well enough, sets up some motifs I use later (notably in the town theme). Set up a musical cliffhanger at the end to tease the horror aspect of the game.
This Small Town Called Blowfly: The theme for Blowfly. I wanted to evoke the kind of feelings for a small town in the middle of nowhere, so this track only has one instrument: acoustic guitar. I tried to make the performance “fiddly”, like someone who knows how to play well enough but isn’t a virtuoso is playing it.
The Ritual: This would be one of the chase tracks in the game. I tried to make it as spooky as possible! The heavy use of choir is for portraying the town performing some sort of chant or ritual.
This Small Cult Called Blowfly: As you progress through the game, the town theme evolves as you learn the dark secrets of your town. What was once relaxing is now eerie.
Message from the artist
I tried to make something more out of my comfort zone and focus on sound design this time. Hope it worked!
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
I decided to take the "Freedom" theme literally with the "escape from a cult" story. When I saw the artwork, what struck me was the negative lighting painting jail bars on the wall, which I feel fits with the story I have made.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/slawflesh/sets/the-blowfly-commune-ost-ost
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holup this would actually be a cool game to play, great progression through all the tracks, i really get the beautiful but eerie small town vibe
Wow... that was VERY fly-like... Interesting experiments, combinations of EVERYTHING and, in the end, cool synthesizers!
And yes, The Ritual is my favorite!
P.S. Rawr :3
The variety of styles in each song shows the breadth of your skills and vision. Awesome!
Amazing sound design work—wow! Striking ways of capturing dissonance, like the pitch shifting not just in the foreground but layered into the background too. It really creates this feeling that we as listeners the must go to the rhythm for grounding, yet is steadily foreboding. I loved the moment in “The Ritual” around 0:50, when the bass plays underneath the sparse texture, feeling suspended, but not safe. And such a lovely evolution across the town themes too!
Everything comes crashing down when, on your sixteenth birthday, your parents sit you down and tell you what Blowfly really is. (It's You. You are a Blowfly.) The end.
Cool ideas here! Love the textures in "Main Theme", and the plain jane guitar playing in "This Small Town" is a really interesting contrast. "The Ritual" brings the horror elements back, and the creepy little interlude at 0:48 is an excellent touch, and the track's ending is appropriately unsettling. "The Blowfly Commune" legitimately made me cringe, but in a good way. (I assume this plays when the player realizes everybody else in the town is also, in fact, a Blowfly.)
Solid OST overall. Nice work!
Very creative submission (both musically and thematically), it is very unique I liked it a lot !
Really liked the underlying eery part in the main theme, very effective storytelling it works very well (and this contrast of seemingly cheerful and dread being present between the second and third track makes this quite cohesive), reminds me of similar music found in Earthbound.
For the story you came up with the instruments associated with the cult feel oddly very alien/futuristic (I would have imagined something more along the lines of the Forbidden Siren OST for a village that turned to hell), maybe there is a huge technological force behind the village making it seem normal until the illusion starts to fade for the protagonist, and they try to dispose of them (a bit like the cult in the game Harvester) ?
Great work overall, congrats !
Love this submission Slaw! I think the idea is really creative and you executed it so well with the theme implementation and just the quality of all your tracks. Really liked the plonky guitar track too, everything feels like an evolution into the eerie. Really great job!
Really great work here, I like the game idea you described and the music definitely fits! I love The Ritual, the rhythmic instrument looping in the background and the driving kick drum are great at creating that feeling of being chased. My favourite track has to be the Main Theme though, I love the flute and that evil bass synth, they really work to create an uneasy atmosphere even before you start the game.
really fascinating game.
The music fits the atmosphere perfectly.
It really captures that subtle sense of madness lurking just beneath the surface of everyday life.
Just a touch of insanity—and it’s done really well.
It’s genuinely interesting. I’m not even sure how to describe it, but I really like it.
The atmosphere here is unmatched - so eerie and off-putting, yet still not enough to sound bad - it's a fantastic example of how to do a horror OST right. The story here is very indie-game-y, which makes me really want this to be a real project lol.
Great production, great music, great plot - great job!
Very eerie and creative. Great job!
Nice work, particularly with the synth stuff! Very spooky, very effective!
The Ritual was spooky!!! You def. nailed the vibe. Like how you spookified your small town song too. Nice work!
The concept is nice, that's definitely a game I'd like to try !
I really like the fact that you thought about the guitar aspect and who could play it to match the village vibe you wanted. The last track is definitely a good idea, very nightmarish, it's time to leave this f*****g town for good xD It works pretty well I think, good job !
Cool concept and soundtrack !
The one I like the most is This Small Town Called Blowfly, very chill vibe and well written. And it was a great idea to change it in This Small Cult Called Blowfly and give it that ominous and distorted mood.
I think there's a real contrast beetween those two and the others, maybe too much as they are very different in style.
But it's a nice submission to listen to, well done !
Great way to use the theme!
Amazing work
the choice of instrumentation for "This Small Town Called Blowfly" is very well thought out, nicely done!! i love that you made an alteration of it to convey a drastic change in your conceptual videogame's plot; i am a SUCKER for videogames that either employ dynamically changing music or theme variations. :~)
i'm quite elated that you chose to represent a larger timeframe of the videogame so that we could get a feel of how the plot progresses; i've love to hear what the other tracks would be and what scenarios they'd be for, if you ever develop this further!
Something I really appreciate is how every instrument for each of these feels very intentional and manages to do a lot. The choice for a solo guitar on "This Small Town Called Blowfly" really gave it a nice isolated feeling, I'm definitely sold on the small, rural town with a cult vibes. "This Small Cult Called Blowfly" genuinely gave me chills.
Nailed that town theme very warm and comfy! I love how it changes to be dark and eerie, still having that distant feeling of comfort but that has long past.
I like how the narrative starts off with more of an illusion of freedom, and you yearn for true freedom in the narrative. Definitely different from the other subs on here, while still staying in theme well!
i love the folkiness of the instrumentation that gets underscored by unsettling synths and basses, that makes for a really cool combination. this is a really effective concept that you executed on equally well, great work!