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A jam submission

Maxim - The star catcherView project page

Music inspired by the theme: "Wish upon a star"
Submitted by System ST91 (@SystemST91) — 30 minutes, 7 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#104.1884.188
Overall#193.9753.975
Composition#214.0634.063
Quality#274.0004.000
Impression#343.6883.688
Correlation to theme#443.9383.938

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
Created in OpenMPT
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It's a 3D game (low-poly) with a cute / fairy-tale and dreamlike atmosphere and also with a beautiful blue-violet colored night sky.

It's basically an endless game (mostly aimed at kids) where you collect star pearls falling from the sky and try to collect as many of them as you can before they hit the ground.
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-- Game description --

The story of the game is quite a fairy tale. It takes place in an unknown world where a small traveler and inventor Maxim travels through a grassy hilly landscape. His destination is not specific, in any case, he travels even at night, and it is at night that an unexpected situation happens.

Stars begin to fall from the night sky... many, many stars, but at the same time, crying is heard across the sky.

Because the princess from the star kingdom is crying, who accidentally, while bending down from the window of her star tower, tears off her pearls, which were given to her by her father, the king of all constellations, on the edge of the window.

The pearls falling from afar on the massive grassy ground look like shooting stars.

Maxim, carrying a giant bag full of inventions and gadgets, pulls out a portable kaleidoscope and sees a sad princess crying.

--NOTE-- of course this is an exaggeration. an animated intro would describe it best, where everything is clear without words.😅

So Maxim uses his rocket drives, which he has attached to his giant bag on his back, and thanks to this he can move quickly on hills and also fly to a certain height.

Maxim will try to run around the entire area full of hills, forests, rocks and maybe even ruins, and thanks to his inventions + a purse to the side, in which he will fill the collected pearls.

After he collects the count (until the last pearl hits the ground) The game will move to its second part, where Maxim will use his inventions to build something like a medieval slingshot, with which he will shoot himself into the sky and try to deliver all the collected pearls to the princess.

In flight, he must avoid stardust (smaller meteorites) and can maintain his flight by drift on the star track that randomly appears in flight.

As a reward, star guards always shine brightly at night on his travels.

Anyway, the game ends with a Hi-score list regarding the number of dropped pearls. The number is not specific, it's really just about collecting as many pearls as possible and delivering them safely back to the princess.

Theme:

Wish upon a star

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/systemst91/sets/maxim-the-star-catcher-full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UfRa0EkJZI&ab_channel=SystemST91

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (Game Jams)

For game jams only

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Right off the bat it captured me, what a tune! What a sound and vibe you have going with this one! There's such much character in these pieces. You have a very iconic composition style and its very lovely

Submitted(+1)

Great work! This music has fun and bouncy percussive elements and I like the resonating synths too. It has a great vibe, nice job!

Submitted(+1)

Wow, I love how happy it is, and the percussive elements are really cool! 

Submitted(+1)

Main Theme: This track makes me think of a mechanical spacey area. The reverb used fits very well with the falling star theme. This track is ready for what I imagine to be a small fun handheld game.

Level: This song is perfect for an endless level game - it has a great mix of rhythmic driving elements with ambient and interesting harmonies and instruments. There is an ethereal nature to the bell and pad sounds that definitely gives celestial star catching vibes. These are really fun to listen to. Thank you for sharing!

Submitted(+1)

Really good job on choosing the sounds and on the reverb too! It instantly sent me in a funny game with stars shining and bouncing on the ground :) 

I can really imagine myself with Maxim running for high score. Nice one! 

Submitted(+1)

Really enjoyed the main theme! After reading the game genre, and listening to the second track, I imagined something like the game Nights haha

Great work!

Submitted(+1)

This is really well made! Love the overall aesthetic. It gives me Y2K vibe.

Submitted(+1)

Really "starry" feel with that reverb and and the chiptune sounds. Main theme reminds me of the star world in the old Gameboy's Super Mario Land 2. Nice work!

Submitted(+1)

Very fitting to the theme sound wise! The synths also feel very well made and everything fits together perfectly throughout the songs, good job!

Submitted(+1)

I love the retro sound! Great job!

Submitted(+1)

I like this a lot! It definitely gives off a retro throwback vibe! Very bright and cheery, good use of synths and the like, I love it a lot!