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A jam submission

106 Seconds To Bake A CakeView project page

Submission for the Precision Jam #2 for a concept game called 'World of Cakes'.
Submitted by GlutinousGluten — 7 hours, 59 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Match to the brief#223.4003.400
Composition quality#322.7002.700
Overall#342.6802.680
Production quality#342.3002.300
Overall enjoyment#352.4002.400
Memorability#362.6002.600

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
This is a piece of 'music' composed for the Second Precision OST Jam! I was on vacation for most of this jam's duration, and therefore I didn't have ANY time at all to work on this, but I still wanted to give it a go as this was quite a fun theme. I realised that I probably wouldn't get a good result anyways, so I just went all in on the chaos and the fun.

As a result, this might have been the most fun I've ever had making something, just not caring about the results of this piece of 'music'.

For this, I went for Level 2 as I think trying to incorporate a free-reed instrument would have been a nightmare, but I liked the Level 4 and 5 themes so I decided to use those as inspiration.

Themes:

Level 1: Music for a minigame in a video game.

Level 2: The music must be mischievous (feel free to interpret this however you like…) and energetic.

Level 3: The music must feature a free-reed instrument, such as an accordion or harmonica.

Level 4: The game is called World of Cakes, a chaotic cooking party game.

Level 5: The music must be a ragtime piece (not necessarily played on the piano).

I imagine the scenario for this piece is that this is a minigame where everything that could go wrong is going wrong, and your movement controls are reversed and there's this weird filter on your screen that makes it hard to see what you're doing and this chaos and confusion is reflected in the music, where as you can see in the piano roll, I just threw everything at it

I hope you don't enjoy this and I encourage you to not give this a listen!

Chosen Precision Level

Level 2

URL to Streaming Service
http://This is probably not suitable for public ears.

Feedback
No AI cover art for the jam icon would be nice :p

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Comments

Submitted

Not listening is not an option. FEEL OUR EARS UPON YOUR WORK AND DESPAIR!
Naw, actually it's not that bad. My biggest gripe is that run covering the entire keyboard three times - I'm not really seeing much of a point in that other than "doing it because you can". 
Apart from that, this piece is generally good times ;)

Submitted

For a rushed submission, it's sounding really good! Right now it feels like there's a lack of commitment. For a chaotic game where everything that could go wrong is going wrong, I still find myself able to latch on to the stride patterns, the repeating melodic motif, and predict every note within the big piano sweep. Too safe. I wonder how it can sound like if, just like the game, what can go wrong is going wrong, where you'd throw out all the theory and musical conventions and just embody absolute chaos!

Submitted(+1)

It gets away from you a little here at the end, but I think for a "rushed" piece it sounds pretty cohesive and well put together to me! 

Developer

This was VERY rushed, talking about like the entirety of the making of this piece from concepts to adding effects took maximum thirty minutes so any sort of coherent sound is honestly a huge achievement! Thanks for rating, listen and commenting on my piece of 'music'!

Submitted(+1)

This is super trippy like the super long ranging piano sweeps take this to a whole different place.  I kinda dig it.  I don't remember the individual melodies as well afterwards but I do remember the feeling of listening to it so I think it's working.  Certainly frenetic and chaotic which was in the prompt so well done

Developer

Thank you! I came into this not having any expectations so to hear that I (somehow) managed to capture a feeling is great! Thanks for listening, rating, and especially commenting on my submission!