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A jam submission

Secret Lake ambient - Awilan789View project page

Submitted by Awilan789 — 12 hours, 28 minutes before the deadline
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Secret Lake ambient - Awilan789's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Correlation to Theme#253.4673.846
Vibe/Atmosphere#373.3283.692
Execution#402.9823.308
Overall#433.0373.369
Listenability#462.8433.154
Composition#522.5652.846

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
A calm koto playing near a secret lake on a chill night.

DAW Screenshot - Demonstrate that this is your own work
Cubase 15 and EastWest Ra for the Koto (don't know how to upload the screenshot here)

Discord Tag
Raph Swan

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Comments

Submitted

It's a nice track! Love the slow koto stuff, but the wind is a bit too loud and overpowering, and it can sometimes can take away from the other stuff that was going on, I think it should still have wind, but a bit quieter might have been better so the other parts can shine too.

Submitted (1 edit)

I’ll just reinforce some points: good balance of textures, felt like there could have been more going on, lack of fade-out does feel abrupt.

This is subjective depending on the vibe you’re going for I think, but ill try to offer something new to consider. Specifically, I feel like your melody could have used more emotional movement. Like the melody felt a little more random and lacked real emotional movement for me. A sense of direction may have added that something else others were looking for I think. But also if you want it to meander, and that’s the vibe you’re looking for, ya did it!

Submitted

It's a great track! I think adding another instrument or percussions, Varying the melody a little bit could take it to the next level .

Submitted

Fits very well what I had in mind for the theme ! I like the textures its well balanced, I would've love some small variations here and there just to spice things up, also a simple fade out at the end would benefit for the listener instead of an abrupt end, good job !

Submitted

No link to streaming?

Developer

Here it is : https://soundcloud.com/awilan789/the-secret-lake

Same file as in the contest, I'll change it after results are in with the feedback from the reviews

Submitted

Very well done! I like how the Pads seem to Shimmer & Evolve, and I really like how Simplistic you went on it. It also gives me vibes of the The Abyss: Chapter 2, Skyrim, and/or Deepwoken OST(s) vibes. The only thing I have problems with is how abruptly it stopped... I would've faded it out. (It startled me BTW, LOL) Overall, very good Soundtrack you got here!

Developer

Thank you for the review ! It's my first time going ambient and also the first time I tried to use something other than a traditional western scale so I had to keep it simple :) 

Now that you mention it I think it would've worked better faded out yes but did not cross my mind ^^'

Submitted(+1)

Well, we all start out somewhere! I've basically just started doing more Intense Soundtracks for a few months before, when I've done Ambient Music for years before that... Glad to share my thoughts on your Soundtrack!