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Icy Fields's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Sense of Atmosphere | #19 | 3.408 | 3.733 |
| Listenability | #20 | 3.286 | 3.600 |
| Correlation to Theme | #22 | 3.043 | 3.333 |
| Execution | #23 | 3.165 | 3.467 |
| Overall | #24 | 3.114 | 3.411 |
| Composing Quality | #25 | 2.921 | 3.200 |
| Overall Uniqueness/Creativity | #27 | 2.860 | 3.133 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Description
An atmospheric piece inspired by frozen landscapes. It uses simple textures and evolving sounds to create a sense of cold openness and stillness.
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I find the elements you used to be very pleasant to listen to: the arpeggios, wind, water sounds, etc. For the most part I think you captured frozen landscapes. I'd say I don't feel a "stillness" as much. This piece does feel like it belongs to a snow level. It's not in your face but it definitely isn't a pure background piece.
On headphones I notice a low distorted buzzing sounds throughout on the left. I am not sure if this is intentional but it feels like it takes away from the clean, frozen sound you are going for.
Very lovely piece! I listened to it a few times. Great job! :)
I'm going to go and be a little contrarian and disagree with the commenters about it being for ambience. I just imagine a different setting.
I imagine the Ice Climbers in some nighttime snowy level. It would totally fit that bill and work as background music. Next time I host an ambience jam I'm going to be more explicit about what I'm personally setting on the guidelines. It's more of a background music jam.
Plus - the purpose of pushing people towards suitability of ambience is less about making ambient music and more about pushing people to focus on the production side of the music since ambient music is usually less complex.
Great work, I enjoyed the track. :)
Good song man, a bit too busy for ambient in my opinion, but I think its just the arpegio in the back, maybe give it some verb, throw it in the back and automate for it to ondulate a little bit, I think that might work, the rest of the track seems right on point!
Tae care! :)
While I really do enjoy the sound overall, I don't think it quite fits the ambience of the theme. It's a bit too busy, in my opinion. The background piano driving the bass sounds is really good and I think the track could benefit from exploring that type of atmosphere more. The other textures are very well done though! Overall I think you did a great job.
Doesn't quite feel as ambient with the arp the whole way through, but the other textures and foley and sound design are stunning. Great submission.