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Description
Overarching game idea is to have a story-based adventure game, with a lone player character discovering a wondrous, magical new world, and finding companions along the way.
moon forest base: The idea here was to have an evolving home base, with different instruments being the different recruitable friends throughout the adventure. I was thinking about something like Tarrey Town in BOTW getting new instruments as you add villagers, or the title screen theme in Yoshi's Island evolving each time you beat a new world.
foggy black market: I wanted to have a sketchy groovy black market vibe, with a sudden spacey interlude for special events that might happen during the market. I wanted a sharp contrast between the two sections, with the interlude section feeling otherworldly and magical.
title theme: Tried to convey a lonesome, pastoral feeling here for the main title theme. Wanted the french horn to create a soaring melodic theme over the kind of empty piano sound. And then adding in string for the lush pastoral mood, and convey the idea that the world is beautiful and full of things to explore and discover.
DAW: Logic Pro
cover image is "Pastoral Landscape in Moonlight" by Gilbert Munger
Message from the artist
First time participating in something like this. Thank you so much for listening!
Theme
How does it fit the theme?
I thought both of the themes convey a sort of otherworldly yet slightly grounded feeling, if that makes sense. I tried to target a rustic sound with soaring melodic lines to capture the vibe I wanted here.
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https://soundcloud.com/wotlonk/sets/untitled-game-ost-celestial
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Comments
Really liked the calm, relaxing vibe of your soundtrack, you definitely nailed what you were going for! I also appreciate how you always mix in unexpected developments and sounds into your music, it kept it very fun and engaging to listen to. I especially loved foggy black market, and how it gradually expands more and more by incorporating new ideas and instruments! That middle section was fantastic! Great job, and thanks so much for sharing!
It's always a treat when jazzy OSTs come up in my rating sessions, and this OST is no exception. It was a wonderful and fun surprise when the trumpet entered in Foggy Black Market. I do think the title track being pastoral when the other tracks are far more jazzy creates a disconnect in the whole cohesion, but the tracks themselves are good!
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Yes I added the trumpet when I was working on black market because it needed a little more oomph. Can't have a black market feeling too empty! I do agree that the title track seems a bit disconnected here. I originally sketched it out when I had a much more ambitious amount of music planned, but wasn't able to realize it all.
I like the "Moon Forest Base" a lot: while a jazzy tune is more transparent in the goofier "Foggy Black Market", I particularly enjoyed the former for its more subtle samba-like character interleaved with a classical style... I played it a few times, really nice. The last track I heard, "Title Theme Pastoral", while more classical in tone, has some really beautiful passages. I hope you eventually have the chance to develop these ideas further, nice job ;)
I'm so glad you enjoyed, thank you for listening and for the kind words!! I actually used tabla drums for the "Moon Forest Base" track, which I feel gives a really nice bounce to the rhythm.
Title Theme Pastoral: I think you nailed your goal of a lonesome pastoral feeling. I particularly liked the ending with piano, horn, and strings all together. I think the piano entrance felt a bit sudden, but then after that when the other instruments enter the context makes more sense.
Foggy Black Market: The seedy smokiness of the back alley-esque market is conveyed well with the jazzy piano and drum kit. I like the addition of the trumpet and saxophones in the repeat after the interlude. The dreamy interlude flows very nicely from the main part of the track. Including dynamic soundtrack characteristics is a really clever inclusion in your OST since so many OSTs use them!
Moon Forest Base: This is a nice contrast to the other pieces. The bossa nova rhythm sets the scene for a relaxing home base very nicely. Based on the way you wrote your left hand piano accompaniment in the middle section, I wonder if you have training in writing or performing classical music?
Welcome to the OST comp jams! This is an impressive first submission! I like the variety of styles you used and I think each has a clear identity that would work really well in-game. Good work and thank you for sharing your music!
Thank you so much! Appreciate the time spent listening and commenting :)
I'm glad you liked the variety of styles -- I wanted to have each of my tracks be pretty distinct, but feel cohesive enough that they could still be part of the same game. I'm actually a violinist by training! so I'm not very good at piano but I've spent a lot of time messing around on it haha
I liked the transition in the Foggy Black market, it worked really great with that jazz and dark mood of the theme here :) favorite track along with moon forest
I like your compositions, only complaint might be the piano vst, it doesn't really have dynamics and feels a bit off because of this. It actually works on the last 2 tracks, but for the calm and eerie title theme part it felt too 'rigid'.
Other than that I like the world you established with your chirds and melody choices, very charming :)
Thank you so much for the kind comments! I like the transition in black market too haha
Definitely a valid complaint w the piano dynamics! I rushed a bit to finish the title theme in time, but I could have spent more time there for sure messing w/ the MIDI velocity or maybe automating the volume.