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OST Composing Jam 8

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A jam submission

that summer nightView project page

Submitted by sunspot — 1 hour, 17 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Storytelling#713.7593.759
Creativity#1133.5173.517
Overall#1593.2973.297
Quality#1773.2073.207
Impression#1883.0693.069
Composition#2242.9312.931

Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
The game would be a visual novel style, focused on reconnecting with 3 friends. Each friend has a different genre of music tied to them, but certain themes and leitmotifs keep them together, especially the Celesta instrument, which represents Axel, the glue that held them together.

Seaside represents Josie's theme, which also doubles as the intro theme, it's delicate and emotional, but slightly hopeful.

Wildchild represents Liv Miller, the cig-smoking bassist, in the game, you'd have to connect with her through music, which Axel inspired her to play.

Hermit represents Willard Greer, a shut-in who barely leaves the house, especially after Axel's death, with him, you must connect through a shared love of games.

Flying Tomatoes represents Rio Hudson, the wannabe comedian, but not very well loved in the club he performs at. With him, you must go up as a comedy duo, igniting his true love for making people laugh.

Distant Waves is the ending music, in which Josie decides to leave the docks and spend time with her friends, something she should have done a long time ago.

Originally, I had planned for one more track, a sort of bad ending where the noise at the docks becomes overwhelming, but due to both scope and that going against the message I have for the game, I decided against it.

I used Logic Pro X for all of the music.

Message from the artist
I put a lot of love into this, and it really inspired me after a drought of no music making, I damn near fell in love with this fictional game and project. Thank you!

Theme

One Summer Night
Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
The game's premise is to connect for one more summer night, and the docks play a major theme within the game

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/sunspotwave/sets/that-summer-night

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRnyj-a_Ucsm1lo312mCaktDR00cQO-6C

Number of tracks
5

Genre

Rock/Metal
Jazz
Ambient
Synthwave/Retro

Soundtrack use permission

No

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Comments

albitrarySubmitted329 days ago

Interesting and unique concept!I like the idea of assigning each person different musical elements and tying them together. The character tidbits are intriguing and give a good amount of color to each track. Nice job!

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One Night Only
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gianlucafaccilongoSubmitted329 days ago

I really enjoyed the variety of instruments you used across the soundtrack, it kept things engaging throughout the listen. My favorite was Hermit, I especially liked how you mixed in those bleeps and bloops. Great job!

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Letters by the Sea
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willdionioSubmitted329 days ago

seaside - Some highlights in this track for me were the string notes at 0:50 and the piano chord at 1:09. The piano could have a more delicate quality to it (slower and softer dynamics).

wildchild - Interesting genre switch that is quite fitting for a rocker character archetype.

hermit - Cool use of retro sounds and nice job with reusing motifs.

flying tomatoes - Nice switch to a jazz style. I would make the saxophone louder in the second half.

distant waves - Great closing piece that calls back to the first track.

Good job here! Be careful with dissonance—I would use it more sparingly, contrasted against moments of consonance. Similarly, tracks 2, 3, and 4 would benefit greatly from B sections that contrast your existing ideas, like a change in texture or chord progression, for example. Overall, I think that it is really cool that you were able to work with so many different genres for this soundtrack and use the different genres for character themes—maybe that idea could even be extended towards entire chapters or different interactions for each character!

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Echoes of a Distant Shore
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worthless_protoplasmSubmitted330 days ago

I like your choice of instruments and how they represent the different characters in your soundtrack. I feel the personalities coming through the different timbre choices.

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Journey Across The Underside
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kazmordSubmitted331 days ago

I like the vibe! It keeps you slightly off balance in a good way. The use of instruments as a storytelling tool was a great touch. Nice job!

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One Final Bash!
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sunspotDeveloper330 days ago

the off balance was intentional, i originally had planned for a bad ending track, but ran out of time, hence the certain sense of unease throughouy some tracks, thank you!

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TwitchywhalezSubmitted331 days ago

I love your story concept! Would love to play this game. I really like how you tied the story and the music together through the writing (both compositionally and through storytelling). The instrumentation and vibes are great, awesome job!

Flying Tomatoes is my favorite

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Vessel of the Never-Ending Night
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PyöveliSubmitted331 days ago

Chill and vibey, love the concept of the game, GG !

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An Hanez (An Epic)
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Clear Spark StudiosSubmitted332 days ago

Great soundtrack, was very relaxing to listen to :)

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Wet Paws Soundtrack
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picusmajorSubmitted332 days ago

Dedicated character themes are like catnip to me, and you did it so well! I feel like you captured each of the characters with a distinct theme of their own while also maintaining a cohesive sound of the whole story/album, very impressive work!

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Nautical
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MiceramaSubmitted333 days ago

All of the love you put into this shows, these are some great character themes with a ton of personality. They all feel lovable and a quirky (in the best possible way) and even without looking at the character themes I can get a really good sense of them. Personal favorite I think might be Flying Tomatoes, both for the song and the name/concept haha, great work!

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The Benthic Hour
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sunspotDeveloper332 days ago

thank you so much! my friend suggested that name and i loved it so much, originally was just gonna be something basic like rio's bar or somethin, thank you!!

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yukiakinoSubmitted333 days ago

the way each character gets their own theme while the celesta ties it all together- its so thoughtful. seaside and distant waves hit so hard with that mix of nostalgia and hope that i feel !! i can tell you poured a lot of love into this project ! and it paid off <33. i liked the story line so much !! great job 1!!1!

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NAIAD
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sunspotDeveloper332 days ago

thank you so much! <333

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olekspickleSubmitted333 days ago

Awesome job fitting the character stories! I think youre onto something here

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grasshopper
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sunspotDeveloper332 days ago

thank you sm!

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RyanRingoSubmitted334 days ago

The idea of having one theme per character is a really charming way of writing! I really appreciate this and I agree that the Celeta is almost haunting the characters,

I know the jam is over but id really like to see how much more this idea goes from you! There is no lack of creativity here. I know the time constraint hit the last couple tracks but all in all it was a pleasant experience and I really enjoyed the reading and audio combo!

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Where People Used To Be
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sunspotDeveloper332 days ago

i'm not sure!! i really do like the concept of this project, might take it further, who knows!

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JofesSubmitted334 days ago

I like that each character gets their own theme and the message of the story represented by the celesta connects them all. 

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Only As Good As The Last Day
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sunspotDeveloper332 days ago

yesss thank you! going the visual novel style of everyone having their own theme definitely helped my pipeline

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liamt15Submitted335 days ago

Seaside - Lovely piano intro. Feel like alot of us went for the slow piano opening, myself included!

Wildchild - Really cool to centre an instrument in the track as a plot point, feels like it would work really well! Kinda radiohead vibes with this one (tour coming up!?).

Hermit - Cool use of videogame sounds as percussive instruments! Would be cool to hear this track developed a bit further with more chiptune melodies!

Flying tomatoes - Hm, the bass seems to be clashing with the piano alot. There's alot of unpleasant dissonance, makes me not sure if it's intentional... unless it represents the comedian bombing?

Distrant waves - similar issue here, Bb on a G minor chord an B in bass make a minor 9th interval (avoid at all costs unless it's incredibly intentional) clash horribly. Maybe the track's unfinished? Isn't leaving me with the emotions I was expecting from the description because of all the clashing minor chords. 

Odd ending, because otherwise the soundtrack worked quite well!

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Across the miles
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sunspotDeveloper332 days ago

thank you for the feedback! i was definitely crunched for time on the last track, as I originally intended on two endings.

thanks for the insight!

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besyltSubmitted335 days ago

really cool story! i love the creativity, and the variety of tracks - and i particularly love the jazz combo vibe captured in flying tomatoes!

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one summer night
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sunspotDeveloper335 days ago

thank you! i definitely leaned into the visual novel style of everyone having particular character themes! flying tomatoes might be my favorite too :

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