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Teen Game Jam #1 is a triannual low pressure, low stakes 10 day jam for teens to gain experience and collaborate with others! 

If you are a teen wanting to start in Game Dev, or want to further your experience, I highly recommend joining this for practice!

/jam/teengame-jam-1

I think I could have done it so the faster arps had a very slow crescendo up to 3:33 I think. Thank you for listening to my submission!

Thank you!

Thank you! I experimented a lot more with panning and different settings on every piano sound for this submission so I'm glad to hear that it had an effect!

Thank you! If I'm being honest, this was quite a hastily thrown together submission so to not get a 2 is very cool! Thank you for all your feedback and for rating and listening to my submission!

Ah that makes sense. I panicked just before submission and decreased the volume quite a bit. Lesson learned from this submission: don't do anything on impulse!

Thank you! I was making this with the phrase 'music that's ignorable yet interesting' in my mind the whole time so I was thinking a lot about if this would be too distracting if I was playing a game, or studying or reading listening to this.

Thank you! This would be a great excuse for me to finally learn how to draw to be honest.

This is amazing! The history of the Near Lands really gives a great feel and is an amazing exposition to the music and the story. The short stories are amazing and link together really well and just leave wanting more. The church of Salda kind of reminds me of the Church in His Dark Materials, and the element of Fluxstone has so much potential there, it's just a *flux*mine of stories there to be discovered (get it? hahaha). You developed the characters very well, and it's just a great look into their world in these.

As for the music, it's also great! I love how in the Cael Canopy for example, you used some sort of wind instrument and strings which gives a really nice and nature-y feel to the music.

The jazziness of Valen Shadows really portrays that vibe of the casinos and bars really well and the strings under that are quite pleasant too.

Some small feedback points I have is that the calmer tracks, like Cael Canopy, just don't feel right with the percussion there, as I would describe the percussion as fairly upbeat in that track.

Also, I think making each of tracks even MORE distinct from each other would really emphasise the difference between the cities and I think, make the world much more special (not because your world is generic, but as in giving it a REALLY unique vibe). Maybe you could lean more into the jazziness of Valen, more ambience for Cael, a bit more cheekiness for Salsa, etc.

Overall though, amazing work, the short stories are really good and if you choose to expand on this world, I would love to see it!

Thank you! I'm very unfamiliar with mixing, so I really appreciate all advice in that area. The Abbey Road reverb trick sound really interesting and I'll definitely read more on that!

Thanks for the ideas for arranging them into full pieces, I totally want to make them into something one day, so this is also really useful!

Thanks for rating, listening and commenting on my submission!

Hey, so I ran this through a reverse image search and nothing came up for this? I also looked on Pixabay and there wasn't any images that matched this. Considering your previous works, this is a bit suspicious, so I would appreciate it if you could send me a link to the Pixabay.

That's great to hear! Thanks for changing your cover art and I hope your drawing journey goes well! Love the seagull by the way

Ah I see. I would be more careful getting images in the future personally then, but glad to hear that you didn't intend to use AI!

Hi! I haven't listened to your submission yet but I'm here to ask that you don't use AI for your cover art next time (if you used it) you participate as it makes people uncomfortable and less likely to listen to your submission. You could use a photo editing website like Canva, an app like Microsoft Paint, or you could find a stock photo from the internet or maybe take a photo yourself! Hope you can find an alternative than just using AI!

Hi there! I haven't listened to your submission yet and I'm sure it's great, but I'm here to ask that you don't use AI for your cover art next time (if you used it) you participate as it makes people uncomfortable and less likely to listen to your submission. You could use a photo editing website like Canva, an app like Microsoft Paint, or you could find a stock photo from the internet or maybe take a photo! Hope you can find an alternative than just using AI!

Hello! I haven't listened to your submission yet but I'm here to ask that you don't use AI for your cover art next time (if you used it) you participate as it makes people uncomfortable and less likely to listen to your submission. You could use a photo editing website like Canva, an app like Microsoft Paint, or you could find a stock photo from the internet or maybe take a photo yourself! Hope you can find an alternative than just using AI!

Hi! I haven't listened to your submission yet but I'm here to ask that you don't use AI for your cover art next time you participate as it makes people uncomfortable and less likely to listen to your submission. You could use a photo editing website like Canva, an app like Microsoft Paint, or you could find a stock photo from the internet or maybe take a photo yourself! Hope you can find an alternative than just using AI!

This is really good, I absolutely adore this beautiful orchestral piece, I can definitely hear the influence from John Williams too! Great job!

Thank you for playing our game! Really glad to hear that you liked choosing what rules to implement!

Thank you! This is really detailed and this will be EXTREMELY useful to me. Thank you so much!

To be honest, I didn't really intend for this to be a minimalist piece, but I guess that's how it turned out. These tips are really useful though, and I'll definitely consider them in the future when *intending* to make minimalist pieces!

Thank you very much for rating my submission!

Thank you! Your game is really cool by the way, amazing concept;

Thank you so much for rating, playing and commenting on our game!

Thank you for rating!

Thank you! :>

Thank you for the feedback!

Hello! This is a game about sorting emails based on rules. Would be great if you could rate it!

I'll rate yours now!

/jam/brackeys-16/rate/4932640

Hello! This is a game about sorting emails based on rules. Would be great if you could rate it and give some brutal feedback (make sure you say that though)

/jam/brackeys-16/rate/4932640

Hello! This is a game about sorting emails based on rules. Would be great if you could rate it!

/jam/brackeys-16/rate/4932640

Hello! This is a game about sorting emails based on rules. Would be great if you could rate it!

/jam/brackeys-16/rate/4932640

Thank you! I appreciate that our game... may have been a little confusing at first but thank you for pushing through! Glad to hear that you thought it went well! Thank you for rating, playing and commenting on our game and we really appreciate the feedback!

Thank you! This is my first time writing/worldbuilding for a jam so this is really valuable feedback on how I can improve!

I do agree that I probably didn't have the best choice of piano that fit the pieces I made, but that might also be a problem with my mixing, or maybe both.

I think for Takeoff I could have adjusted the piano percussive-y key noise, but that's a mistake on my part.

Glad to hear that you enjoyed Underneath! I took inspiration for the piece from a boss theme so that makes sense, but I could have made it fit the description a bit more.

And A Field Of Flowers is my personal favorite track, so I might develop it into a full orchestral piece in the future!

Thank you for taking the time to listen, rate and comment on my submission! I really, really appreciate your feedback!

Thank you! I don't have time to reply right now, so I'll put another reply here later if that's alright!

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you rating and commenting on my submission, it really helps me improve in the future.

Thank you! Glad to hear that you enjoyed it! I think we adjusted the fish-eye-ness of the CRT filter at one point but I guess it's still a bit too much. Thanks for playing, rating and commenting on our game!

Thank you for commenting! I wanted to just have one main idea instead of forcing myself to force every concept I had into the story, so I just wanted to focus on one main concept. I didn't do much mixing for these 3 tracks so I forgot to do reverb 😬 Thank you for rating and listening to my submission!

I think I could have added some more layers to variate stuff through the piece, but I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for listening, rating and commenting on my submission!

Thank you! Yeah, I do think I could have added a little more dynamic contrast among other things to spice it up a little , but thank you for listening and rating my submission nonetheless!

Gosh, literally ALL my feedback is conflicting 😭 (not an insult or anything btw) I guess the melody is quite simple and I could have had a bit more dynamic contrast.

 Thank you so much for commenting and listening on my submission anyways!