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A jam submission

Is That a Monster In Your Pocket?View project page

Parody of the Pokemon Stadium for the Nintendo 64 battle theme.
Submitted by Cait Sol — 17 hours, 54 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Imitation of Style#84.2654.455
Mixing Quality#183.3953.545
Overall#213.6123.773
Composition#243.3073.455
Enjoyment#253.4823.636

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
I drew inspiration from both the anime and the games, mostly the N64 Pokémon Stadium, but restricted myself to using only three voicelines, just as Junichi Masuda did on the Game Boy Color. Instead of a DAW, I used MuseScore, writing the music directly as sheet music. This method made it easier for me to write the counterpoint. I used the stock sounds in MuseScore to achieve a retro sound.

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https://soundcloud.com/cait-779964260/is-that-a-monster-in-your

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

This song fits very well as an early gen battle theme. I might consider making the melody less legato in some places - adding in some spaces may help it breathe a bit more. Good use of syncopation to keep the rhythm going.

Submitted(+1)

I find this so accurate to the style that at first it gave me an uncanny valley feeling of “hey, is this a copyright-free spoof of one of the ACTUAL tunes?”. Then started to warm up and enjoy it a lot. I think you nailed it!

Soundwise, I can’t believe that this is musescore as others said. Bit fizzy, not too bright, but also not abrasive. In the end that I call a “rendering issue” and who’s to say that an actual gameboy on low volume wouldn’t feel like that.

Submitted(+1)

I think it was pretty good and a great representation of the style, I do believe in the middle when it kinda “slows down” it becomes a bit too repetitive. Great work keep it up :)

Submitted(+1)

Great battle theme here! I think it could use a drum part to fill in some of the empty spaces but it's completely believable for a GBA track otherwise. It's pretty crazy how amazing the Musescore sounds fit. There are some really impressive musical ideas here too, one that stood out to me was the progression at 0:23, really hype and dramatic! Very nice stuff

Submitted(+1)

Really good battle theme! I like the syncopated section in the middle of the piece, though I think maybe it goes on a little too long without an aspect of it changing slightly, i.e. an alteration in harmony. Overall, it sounds faithful to the Gameboy battle theme style.

(+2)

It's impressive how you were able to use just 3 melodic voices to give an identifiable beat all without drums. The chords and melody used here are also very pokémon, it's a nice adaptation of the style. The section at 00:48 is great, the way the bass and top lead join together to make the syncopation add intensity to the song and make an effectively distinct B section. It'd be cool to hear this with the traditional Gameboy sounds, but I'd be lying if I said the default musescore sounds aren't charming.