Love the chord progression in "Havet og Marah", very beautiful sounds here. The waltz rhythm in "Rolig sjødans" works really well to drive home the imagery of crossing waves. Nice job changing things up with the unsettling trepidation followed by impending doom in "Det skremmer meg - FLYKTE". Awesome work overall, very well composed!
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Havet og Marah's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Composition | #35 | 4.191 | 4.191 |
| Overall | #72 | 3.949 | 3.949 |
| Impression | #74 | 3.915 | 3.915 |
| Quality | #86 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Correlation to theme | #130 | 3.872 | 3.872 |
| Creativity | #156 | 3.766 | 3.766 |
Ranked from 47 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
These tracks have been written excusively for this jam. I've used Cubase to write three orchestral pieces mixed with synthezisers. The soundtracks are hybrid atmospheric orchestral pieces.
Havet og Marah
The song is the main title screen for the game and fits also both Themes “inside my world” and the one of the submitted picture. I chose the synthesisers to resemble the vastness of the sea and the unknown things in the deep while the orchestra resembles Marah.
Rolig sjødans
Which is Norwegian for “calm sea dance”. The song is supposed to be the main music if Marah ventures thou the overworld on her little boat and shows the little and big waves she will cross over her time. It is mostly written for orchestra since Marah will be clearly in the focus.
Det skremmer meg - FLYKTE
Also Norwegian for „It scares me - flee“. This is a song companioning Marah, when she tries to flee from a dark sea creature which resembles one of her fears or one of her illnesses. I chose a mostly synthesised sound to resemble the scarry and unnatural site of the monster and also revisit the mixed idea of the main theme Have og Marah.
Message from the artist
I am an beginning composer and have currently no furthor works in OSTs for games or other media. I do my compositions as a hobby besideds my full time job as a Programmer.
While i am not norwegian i have learned the language over some years and visited the country many times and had my fondest memorys there. Thats why every song title is in norwegian.
Theme
Inside my world
Picture theme
How does it fit the theme?
I chose an atmospheric orchestral hybrid soundtrack for the fictional game “Havet og Marah” (which is Norwegian for “The sea and Marah”). The Game is about a little girl called Marah, who ventures through the great sea of her emotions and memories. It discovers her emotional findings and also her psychic disabillities. I chose this idea, since it fits the theme “inside my world” clearly and can also fit the submitted pictures as a scene from the game.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxqD40Ciduc
https://soundcloud.com/einelthefox/sets/havet-og-marah
Number of tracks3
Genre
Orchestral
Ambient
Soundtrack use permission
Yes (Game Jams)
For game jams only
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