Bagpipes! Cool Bassline! Vibe Switch up in the second track! This is very cool I like it a lot
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Verdant Green's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Listenability | #3 | 4.615 | 4.615 |
| Overall | #4 | 4.369 | 4.369 |
| Correlation to Theme | #5 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Execution | #5 | 4.308 | 4.308 |
| Composing Quality | #6 | 4.346 | 4.346 |
| Uniqueness | #11 | 4.077 | 4.077 |
Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Link to Streaming Service
https://soundcloud.com/micerama/sets/verdant-green
Description
I originally only wanted to make one song because I was feeling burnt out, but everyone posting their battle tracks in the Discord was very motivating and led to some more fun music making!
Verdant Green was mainly inspired by Elliot Hsu (the goat), and uses the first 6/8 motif. While making this I was picturing that the game would be some kind of creature collector (kinda similar to Pokémon?) and this song would play during a vibrant forest-y location that's got all kinds of nooks and crannies to explore. The usage of the motif is pretty direct, being used directly by the bagpipes and whistle while the guitar plays with it a bit more loosely.
Verdant red still uses the same motif, but it had to be translated to 4/4 and I made it (more?) minor so it's less of an exact usage. I still tried to keep that triplet rhythm and general melodic movement with the supersaw plucks right at the beginning and kept that in mind all throughout. The section around 1:03 uses a version of the motif more directly with the pluck being panned left and right. It should probably go without saying that this would be a lot later in the game for a big boss fight that would use motifs and melodies from all throughout that don't exist in this limited soundtrack. It does have the second motif thrown in there because I thought it would be cool lol (not gonna say that this uses both because of that though).
Verdant Green's loop starts at 0:15 and ends at 1:49
Verdant Red's loop starts at 0:13 and ends at 2:29
Music is cool and good and cool stay cooking thank you :) <3
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Hard Mode!
Which Motif did you use?
One (6/8)
Comments
Probably subconsciously! I don't think I had his stuff in mind here but I have spent a lot of time looking at his stuff, personal favorites of his are "The Tale of a Cruel World" (if only for that juicy chord progression) and the Devourer of God's theme which has carried me through many fast food shifts lol :)
Thanks for the comment!
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you for the comment! I definitely get what you mean with Verdant Red focusing on the motif less, in my head I didn't want to have both tracks use the motif directly as-is for main melodies so it got put more in the background and the melodic content was mostly motif inspired rather than directly using it.
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you so much, that means a lot! I think the feeling goes both ways, though more generally I think it's always awesome to see everyone's musical personality come through so strongly in all of these jams :)
1 year ago(+1)
Yeah the game consists of two areas, one happy forest village and then you step outside and immediately fight a god in a collapsed world lmao
Thank you for the comment! :D
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you for the kind comment! Both of these were super fun to make and I'm glad it paid off, funnily enough I think it was your battle track in the discord that was the moment that made me decide to try making one too haha :)
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you! I've always been super inspired by common rhythm game genres like Artcore specifically because of how they combine real and electronic stuff, glad to hear that it's paying off!
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