this is a wonderful composition!!! the instrumentation here is gorgeous, and i love the chord progressions and arpeggiations you add here. the use of the vocaloid is a wonderful touch as well. overall, this track is just so wonderful to listen to. thanks for sharing!
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Where the Old Dreams Live's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Impression | #13 | 4.310 | 4.310 |
| Quality | #21 | 4.241 | 4.241 |
| Composition | #24 | 4.207 | 4.207 |
| Overall | #24 | 4.076 | 4.076 |
| Storytelling | #37 | 3.793 | 3.793 |
| Creativity | #45 | 3.828 | 3.828 |
Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Game Premise:
Day by day, a quiet unease settles over the protagonist... a sense that something key has slipped away, though they can't name what. As night falls and they drift into sleep, they awaken within a dreamworld stitched together from fragments of their past: familiar faces, cherished objects, half-remembered vistas, all rendered so familiar, yet so strange. Guided by whispered song, they journey deeper into this world, and with each memory un-forgotten, a little more of themselves comes back into focus. Piece by piece, they begin to remember what made life worth living.
A Song to Remember:
This piece serves as the game's ending theme, played as the protagonist begins to awaken, with the dreamworld and its song reminding them that what they need to move forward has always been within them all along.
Lyrics:
Drifting through these days,
Searching for light, that seems now fading
The vibrant shades of song, that once shone through pass into memory
Longing for those days,
Reaching for dreams, that burned so hot, I couldn't hold on to them all
Yet the shards that fell now sing to me to recall
(Intermezzo)
Through the tides and the winds
Towards the light of coming dawn
Our dreams of the past keep shining in our hearts
So we sing, and we dance
Close our eyes and see the world that lives on inside
Thanks for listening!
Message from the artist
Only had like 6 hours to work on this jam, so just 1 piece for this time. I usually write songs in japanese, but decided to give english a try for this submission. Hope you enjoyed it!
The art is Evening Contemplation by Alphonse Mucha
Theme

How does it fit the theme?
When I read the theme and saw the image, I immediately thought of how the world looked so different back when I was a child. There was so much wonder, color, and anything seemed possible, any dream achievable. Yet as we grow up, some of us might've lost sight of that wonderful world we once saw so easily. It becomes a forgotten world. In my piece, I tried to capture that world of dreams we all once had, and imagined this piece as the song of said world, calling for us, speaking to us, reminding us that the world still holds all that wonder and joy, just as long as we're willing to look for it.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/bodotheserf/a-song-to-remember
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Genre
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