I really like the atmosphere of your tracks!! At first in Forest Village, the cicada (?) SFX was a bit loud, but it leveled out as more instruments came in. Songs of a Forgotten Sky is so cute and made me think of Maplestory Kerning City: Jungle Book :)
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Songs of a Forgotten Sky's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Impression | #95 | 3.368 | 3.368 |
| Quality | #99 | 3.421 | 3.421 |
| Composition | #104 | 3.368 | 3.368 |
| Overall | #111 | 3.242 | 3.242 |
| Creativity | #115 | 3.263 | 3.263 |
| Storytelling | #153 | 2.789 | 2.789 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
I'd describe the genre as feel good fantasy world music. There's certainly some ambient touches with Forest Village.
nspiration: I channeled the joy in the theme image for both of these tracks, they both convey people getting together and having a good time with music.
Process: I sketched out 3 core ideas on my ableton move, then selected two to bring over to ableton live and flesh out into full tracks. I started with a loop and then built out the intro/bridge/outro parts around that initial loop idea.
Forest Village: Started with me wanting to go a more desert/tribal direction. It directly borrows from the drum/time signature found in the Diablo 2 "Desert" track which is a VERY different vibe. It then turned into "market town" with a more upbeat flavor. Then, once I started looking for market chatter samples, I remembered the field recordings I had from my trip to the amazon 7 years ago. Those turned out to be absolute bangers so I drove the track towards a more forest village direction and I'm so so happy with how it turned out. I think this is so far my favorite thing I've fully produced in my (short) music career so far.
Songs of a Forgotten Sky: Started on my ableton move, This was my last idea and I forced myself to not be too weird (my other tracks were in 7:4 time or using a chromatic descent). I was trying to get towards a 'title track' that introduces each of the characters, where each of those characters are identified with a specific instrument. I specifically wanted to try and form a call and response with this one. I wanted a bit more time to work this one, but I'm happy to release it into the world.
Software: Ableton Live
Homegrown instruments/samples: electric bass guitar, electric acoustic classical guitar, samples of me clapping, amazon rainforest 2019, Ableton move.
Samples from others: Spanish market, crowd party, both from Splice.
Runtime: ~4 minutes
Theme
Songs of a Forgotten World
Picture theme
How does it fit the theme?
I directly imagined some of the characters in the image while making these tracks. Both tracks submitted use a mixture of old and new world instruments from various cultures, creating a blend that only belongs in another world.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://on.soundcloud.com/VqAEuNum4DGAH6Dot9
Number of tracks2
Genre
Orchestral
Ambient
World/Ethnic
Folk/Acoustic
Soundtrack use permission
Yes (Game Jams)
For game jams only
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