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Description
Imagined Story:
On a hot summer night, Celia goes to her grandmother's house to help clean her attic. When she finds a leather book and curiously opens it, a golden light burst out of the pages! The musical score for "Celestial Connection" started inscribing itself to the first page. Celia felt an intense connection to something, but she didn't know what it was. Then, the light was gone.
Celia flipped to the other pages, but it was all empty. She wanted to ask her grandmother about what just happened, but the only problem is... her grandmother has severe Alzheimer's. Determined to find out more about this mysterious book, she teams up with her best friend Rin to uncover the mystical songs from the book and discover a forgotten world.
Note: I didn't have too much time to compose for all the tracks I envisioned, but I completed chapter one (more description of the detailed story in my itch page and youtube). Please let me know what you think will happen in chapter 2 in the comments!!
Genre: Gameboy Chiptune
Game: Action-Adventure RPG
DAW: Composed in Furnace Tracker, Mastered in Logic Pro X
Art: me :)
Message from the artist
So excited to share my ideas and see what everyone else came up with!
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEv87NalImqs
Number of tracks5
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For game jams only
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man i wanna live in cozy town... that aside this ost although quite short gave me hella nostalgia and a warm fuzzy feeling in my chest (especially cozy town!!!!) LOVE the mixing work you did here too when there were only 2-3 instruments to work with. not to mention the attached story to this ost as well (and the very cool art!!), would really love to see a chapter 2 if that ever comes to be!!!
Thank you so much!! So glad that you enjoyed the story and music! The art was so difficult to draw lol, almost took me longer than some tracks T.T
The Forgotten World: What a fun theme! The GameBoy sound is so high quality and the 4 channel composition is really impressive. I hold composers who can compose in chiptune style in extremely high regard, and have even MORE respect for those who can make it sound like there are more than 4 channels. You have achieved all of this even from just this first track!
Our Peaceful Home: You probably have so many influences of your style, but Pokemon hometown themes stick out in my mind as something that I would compare this to. And that is quite a high bar. Beautiful and game-ready, most certainly!
Celestial Connection: This is an intriguing piece and I like to imagine how it would function in-game. It kind of has a similar soft yet unsettling sound like Mt. Moon or Lavender town (again from Pokemon, sorry for the double reference), but these are iconic because of those exact qualities!
Cozy Town: Once again, another track that feels like it is already existing in a game! My highlight from this track is that beautiful final chord at the end of the loop. Buttery and warm…
The Ancient Token: This short jingle is reminiscent of short cues from Ocarina of Time. This seems like a motif that would later potentially be used in a climactic scene. I love the ending mysterious flourishing echoes.
I am so impressed with the quality of all that you were able to complete. I can’t even fathom that you were considering doing more! But if this is Chapter 1, then I certainly hope to one day hear Chapter 2! I don’t often share what specific ratings I give to people because I feel that everyone deserves 5/5 for their skill level as long as they worked hard on their project, but of course with this being a competition, I have to rate everyone relative to the project(s) with the highest regard in each of the categories. That being said, I did give you a full five stars in all five categories because: 1. I was wildly impressed and listened 2 additional times when it concluded, 2. The WAY you tell the story is particularly creative, especially with the addition of the Celestial Connection and Ancient Token pieces - something that sets you apart from other projects that I’ve heard that are also extremely high quality but maybe play it more safely, 3. The composition level is phenomenal AND you did it with only 3 voices (plus a single percussion voice), 4. The quality is professional and it sounds like it came straight from a published game, and 5. I didn’t need to read your description to know exactly how the story was unfolding or where I was (I did read it and that only added to the quality of story-telling). Wonderful work on this and thank you for sharing your music!
Omg thank you so much for the detailed review! My main influence is from the megaman battle network series :) But I am definitely hearing a lot of Pokemon in it too!
This track was made wonderfully.
I should this to a friend they really loved it. Good job.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!! :D
Really good Composition.
This kind of musik is the end boss because you have only 4 elements so everything needs to be good.
also liked listening to it.
Thank youu!! Glad you enjoyed it :D
It’s beautifully composed, with great use of stereo space and chiptune instruments. Well done!
Thank you so much!! :D
this is so fun and beautiful and buttery and funky. you have such a good ear for chord progressions and melody. i was shocked there were so few channels going because it sounds so full and alive. bravo bravo bravo
Thank youuu so glad that you enjoyed it! :)