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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Composition | #17 | 4.244 | 4.244 |
| Quality | #26 | 4.073 | 4.073 |
| Impression | #27 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #35 | 3.941 | 3.941 |
| Creativity | #42 | 3.902 | 3.902 |
| Correlation to theme | #110 | 3.488 | 3.488 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
This story is about running away, not in a bad sense ( as in running from something), but in a good sense, towards the great expanse of the beckoning world!
The following tracks are included:
1. Covering Ground: A journey through a land filled with funny looking plants and animals. You proceed at a steady pace but let yourself catch an occasional breather to enjoy the surrounding nature.
2. Covering Underground: Your journey takes you into an unexplored cave system. What wonders await you there?
3.Bonus Ground: Free stuff laying around!
4. Covering Seaground: You acquire a little boat and some rudimentary nautical skills and off you go over the wide-open sea!
5. Enough Ground: You remember your friends and family with a pang of nostalgia and decide that it is time to return home to tell the tale of your adventures.
6. Home Ground: (Epilogue) After an exhausting adventure you arrive back home at your Grampa's farm.
The soundtrack is inspired by various classic hero sagas, mainly the one about the handyman with the prominent mustache and a love-hate relationship with mushrooms, and the other one about the little boy who captures and trains animals for a zoo or something.
Note-crafting and shedding by me using MIDI instruments and FL Studio.
Theme:
How does it fit the theme?
A brief runaway story that takes you through different lands and ultimately, after an adventurous journey, back home.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/michael-meier-597140037/sets/covering-ground-ost-comp-jam-4-runaway?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Comments
Very genisis Disney type stuff
Love it!
Really charming! It sounds like a good old SNES soundtrack. I can imagine they’re used in a real game. I liked Covering Ground especially. Good job!
Really great entries, with such awesome retro vibes and impeccable composition and style! My son actually came into the office while I was listening to your tracks thinking I was playing a new Mario game.
Haha. Best compliment I could imagine. Thanks!!
I love the bluesy, ragtime aesthetic you went for. It's very reminiscent of music from games like Super Mario World and Earthbound.
Well done!
The transitions between sections of individual songs are fluent, nice work! The song titles have alot of continuity as well haha.
Great tracks! So much fun to listen to, I really enjoy the character of your music. Thank you!
I actually just heard you quote Honeysuckle Rose and I'm lol'ing. This is a ton of fun, thanks!
Ha! Where? Could be. I think I used a lot of common jazz/blues phrases. They're a lot of fun to play.
Such light hearted and fun experience! Can't help but to smile when listening to this one!
Finally this image is contextualized for me. It's perfect haha! I can already picture this goose character with an over-the-top idle animation.
Love the mario references and the fact that this whole album would sound great in 8-bit too. Oh and the organ sounds great. Actually beautiful and intricate stuff you're playing there behind the comedic presentation lol. Chefkiss.
Thanks!
And challenge accepted! I feel a bit clumsy in 8-bit but I could see how this soundtrack would be a ton of fun.
Ok this is just heaps of fun. Energetic and bouncy. I like it.
Covering Ground: This has all the nostalgia of Super Mario World from the SNES. This track feels ready to be placed in a game as is right now! I like the slowed section. That jazzy organ is spicy! Great attention to musical structure; this is ready to loop forever without getting tiring.
Covering Underground: You kept the same great style of the first, made it minor and made it lower, and boom! It’s a hit underworld theme! For this one, I see lots of similarities to the map theme for the first world in Super Mario Bros 3 - love the nostalgia factor you are bringing out!
Bonus Ground: This is awesome as a bonus stage theme. I’m feeling lucky just listening to this at it climbs the scale!
Covering Seaground: Love this chord progression. Your choice of 3/4 time and the instruments you chose make it so this tune can exist nowhere but a water level. Definitely a favorite of mine from your OST!
Enough Ground: This is a very well-written melody. It has a great phrasing and is very satisfying when listening all the way through. I like it in the music box first and then reorchestrated for strings.
Home Ground: This has a very conclusive feeling to it without being cliche. Love the playful tranquility and the upper extensions on that last chord.
Overall: This is such a great OST that is ready for a game right now! I have so much nostalgia from playing SNES games as a kid listening to this. It fits right in with some of the classic greats. Great work and thank you for sharing!
Woah thanks for taking the time to listen so closely to everything. Means a lot to me!
I am definitely a SNES era kid and I am glad it shows!
Holy ****.
I love how you went for a lighthearted and goofy (in a good way!) vibe with your story and soundtrack. Kudos for the creativity (and optimism)!
The ragtime style of the first three tracks lends itself so well to the playfulness of your concept, and the expression in "Enough Ground" made me feel like—if I actually played this game—I would cry. It really got me.
Every track really brings the particular scene you were going for, AND they all work together in such a perfect way.
Stellar work, seriously.
Aww thanks for shedding a tear! I was in no mood for anything gloomy but a lot of emotions went into this OST. Thanks for listening!
Amazing soundtrack! All melodies are soooo well constructed, beautiful! Gives me a big smile on my face
A very nice soundtrack! Really like the funny mood, good work!
These are some great, bubbly tunes. They have a great campy feel that tell me so much about these funny looking plants and about the character moving through the world. Great job!
Haha, that was so much fun to listen, quirky tunes with even a Valse song ! I really like the simplicity of what you made, quality is really great, well mixed, nice strings arrangement too ! Nicely done !
I really like all of the tracks, but I really really like "Enough Ground"! I'm a sucker for the chords especially towards the end. Great work!
Yeah a lot of emotions went into this one. Thanks for listening!
This soundtrack is just fun to listen to! All the songs are just so upbeat and happy, with so many interesting melodies and flourishes. My favorite is "Covering Ground." It has so many interesting quirks throughout! I really enjoyed the whole thing though!
Well, I've listened to plenty of tracks at this stage and this is the first time I can remember coming across an entry that is explicitly framing the 'runaway' theme to something positive and exciting - a new adventure! What a great twist!! As for the tracks, there were some nice touches - the tempo shift in 'Covering Ground' (which I really wanted to whistle along to), and the brash jauntiness of 'Bonus Ground'. Lovely.