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OST Composing Jam 8: One Summer Night's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Quality | #173 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Impression | #181 | 3.100 | 3.100 |
| Creativity | #187 | 3.100 | 3.100 |
| Overall | #195 | 3.060 | 3.060 |
| Storytelling | #197 | 2.900 | 2.900 |
| Composition | #220 | 2.950 | 2.950 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
My entry for the jam. I used synths, hopefully with a retro/nostalgic vibe
Theme
One Summer Night
Picture theme
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGl13Pr9cyWy9dHCt0ZXmgBDVvk_KfH00&si=8ryhhZqPcovyOH0c
Number of tracks3
Genre
Ambient
Synthwave/Retro
Soundtrack use permission
Yes (CC BY)
Any project
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Comments
Pretty nice soundtrack, has a very nostalgic vibe that is quite pleasant to listen to !
The instrumentations and arrangements are nice to listen to, I could easily picture them in a 1st person narrative game like Stories Untold (where music is more based on ambient tones that support the main narration).
Maybe I would have liked a bit more melodies and variety between the tracks since they blend a bit between each other, but it fits with your concept so pretty nice overall !
I love the tracks! Very emotional
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First characters I typed immediately.
OOOooo and microtones!
My head is bopping to this one. Overall, just such a cool atmosphere.
Also... I just noticed how cool your username is haha. I love that play on words.
You create a lot of feeling with a minimal composition. Great work!
Thank you! I loved your work on other jams, and for this one also you delivered a real gem. Thanks for the kind words, they mean a lot :D
This was great and had me emotional, nice work! :)
dark and abstract. really nice synth work, and i like the emotional spaces that you find here. thanks for sharing :)
The sound design is sick, especially time seems to fragment, the story unravels really well! Nice work!
This submission was very cool and interesting :)
Thank you!
Nice work! I really enjoyed Time seems to fragment, that feeling it gives is very unsettling. Great submission
These tracks have some cool sound design that makes things feel a bit unsettling, in a good way!
"Memories on the Lake" stood out to me, the chord progression and instrumentation really gives it a serene feel, but with a sense of an adventure that is to come! So I can see these being played on a game, and the idea that you had for them fits pretty well!
Great job!
That's the vibe I wanted to convey :) thanks!
Extra points for having the story take place on my birthday lol. Good submission, I liked the retro vibe!
The theme of travelling through VHS tapes to change one summer night is a good concept for the story telling. I think the out of tune instruments work for the theme, but I think having some kind of static somewhere too would elevate the theming even more.
The tracks themselves are good. I think some more diversity in tone could help. A more dangerous feeling one since you said actions have consequences in the story description.
I really like the vibe, with slightly detuned synths fitting the theme you came up with nicely. (This ambient stuff is also very much my jam.) But ultimately there's not enough, no leitmotif or nothing to get stuck in my head. This soundtrack is a mood, and that is all there is to it. Also it is very short.
10/10 vibes, but I don't think it is very fit for this game jam, it is kinda not enough to carry its weight.
What I didn't include in the rating but could be very much improved - the presentation is lazy. No description on the project page, link to a youtube playlist in a wrong order (there's 3 tracks, come on).
You're unfortunately right in that it's gravely incomplete. I had very little time to work on this (that's why I submitted this early), but I did it anyway to get out of a "start a thing and never complete it" situation. Thanks for the kind comments anyway, it means a lot that you've taken the time to write proper and useful feedback "insert thumbs up because I don't remember how emojis work here"
Hey, I absolutely understand that. I’m glad you handed this in, and I’m glad I was able to listen to it. What you got done was nice, if you next time build upon that to make it a bit more memorable, I’m sure it’s going to be a great submission.
Good luck!