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A jam submission

FreeдөмView game page

Submitted by VannaDeltaFox — 51 minutes, 12 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#84.2784.278
Correlation to theme#263.7223.722
Overall#363.7443.744
Impression#383.8333.833
Quality#663.4443.444
Composition#823.4443.444

Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
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And so... We meet again, my friend.
Let's face it, you've been here a long time. No friends, no food, no fresh air, no freedom. What's left for you? Sing? Listen to tunes behind concrete walls and all-metal bars?
Admit it: you're dead. And if you're not dead yet, be prepared to lead yourself to your own doom.
Good luck, suicide bomber.

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What's the point of this game? Well, you're a teenager trapped inside a creepy prison. You need to get out of this creepy place, while trying not to die because of the shadow monsters, and also you need to keep your sanity on the pieces of “light”, so that you do not open your veins....


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Voise - Intro. You can hear the singing of your hero, who doesn't know what to do - sing, pray, cry or kill himself.

Glass Lake - The first location. The most calm, but also quite cruel. There are small shards of glass scattered all over the lake shore, which you pierce your feet on, you - bleed. That's just the beginning.

Bonus Leves Theme - Bonus Level Theme. Throughout the game we encounter “crows” that we can inhabit and complete a “bonus task” in the territories of miniature factories, which you can only enter by being a crow. At the end of each level, your crow is destroyed by circular saws and some of the crow meat goes to you. Enjoy!

Falling Forest - A location where you are almost at the exit... In front of you is a magical forest that is constantly trying to fall into the abyss. You jump on platforms, on branches, on trees... Just try not to fall into the abyss, okay? Because you'll be dismembered into little pieces.

Prison Home - The last step is to go through the prison, where there are people like you... I think you will understand how the game ends. So just enjoy the last few minutes of your life. I hope you had a terrible one.

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What about the soundtrack in general? I focused on creating a soundtrack that sounds repetitive, repetitive, has a little Lo-fi element in its structure, but as loud, violent and unpleasant as possible... I also chose an industrial sound (because I love this genre, heh), so you can hear a lot of different synthesizers, distorted instruments, etc. What kind of sound did I want to achieve? The answer is anyone!

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What about the technical part? Well, I'll be honest - this whole soundtrack exists solely because I was just experimenting with percussion, drums and their processing (no kidding - all the drum parts here are distorted with modular synthesizers).
I apologize very much for the bad mix... the reason - I was really sick while I was working on this jam... VERY sick. I could barely sit at my computer, heh))

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What can I say in the end? I'm kinda happy with this post, kinda not... Either way - listen up!

Rawr ^^

Message from the artist
Be happy!
Rawr :>

Theme

Freedom
Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
Everything that happens during this soundtrack is a wander through the strange sections of a certain “prison” from which our heroine wants to escape...
But she can't.

The overall mood of the cover led me to the idea of a mixture of industrial, a little orchestration, a bit of a happy-sad sound and some semblance of “aggressive-undustrial Lo-fi”

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/aleksej-kolosov-318295124/sets/freedm

Genre

Orchestral
Electronic
Jazz
Ambient
Experimental
Synthwave/Retro

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (CC BY)

Any project

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Submitted

Great work, especially the sound design. I don't have a lot of feedback, I just love it.

Submitted

We meet again, my friend

I love your style. Your musical composition style is so unique and one-of-a-kind. I really admire and respect your work!

Developer

Hi!

Thank you :>

Submitted

The vibes vibe. The mix of ambient, special effects, and instrument choices made it feel like I was in a 2d pixel horror game, and I absolutely loved it! Super immersive, and I can't believe you got 5 out too! Out of them, I'd have to say falling forest is my favorite. If it started playing when I opened the game, I'd probably have to turn on the lights, haha. Amazing job :)

Submitted

uh... you good, my dude? 

jk, I love the slightly manic, self. deprecating(I guess?) narrative, it's got a ton of style and creativity. 

Thick atmosphere on all of these tracks, very unique and surreal sound as a whole. That instrument near the beginning of "Falling Forest" sounds like it's the forest yelling at me at a very low bitrate; would have loved to have that specific instrument brought back near the end of the song.  Really interesting contrast between the fantasy forest-esque harp and whatever the fuck else is going on. Did you really have to put crow sounds in this track right after the player was (presumably) forced to eat crow meat?

"Prison Home" sounds like a prisoner is spitting on the player at the end of every bar. Halfway through the song, they start yelling at each other while one of them hooks up a guitar amp to the harp from the previous track. This plays really well with the sound of crows screaming in agony in the background. Probably a great time for the prisoners, who (presumably) are all addicted to crow meat by now. The sound of incoherent singing, crows being butchered and actual suicide round things and bring things to a nice conclusion. Really makes "Voice" sound quite a bit less creepy, and on a second listen, much more cognizant to the various crow sounds. 

Side note: Why do you hate crows so much??? Crow meat? Come on man


12/10 submission. Great work, I hate it

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